Piedmont Regional Jail, serving a six-county area, is located in Farmville.

Across the six-county metropolitan area, 5,400 insured houses are empty, each a monument to a family forced into foreclosure.

The district supplies 60 percent of all water to Los Angeles and the six-county area stretching from the Mexican border to Ventura County.

A big boost to economic development was handed to the second district when President Clinton designated a six-county area in the Mississippi Delta and Empowerment Zone.

He had the right to operate all Hooters' restaurants outside the six-county area of Tampa Bay, but was not legally allowed to budge from the founders' procedures.

Mike Mahoney, a spokesman for the Tampa Electric Company, appealed to families in a six-county area to forgo Christmas-tree lights to save energy.

The school serves over 200 churches of many denominations throughout a six-county area.

GRMC is a private, nonprofit and non-tax supported medical center serving an estimated 40,000 residents in a six-county rural area of east-central Iowa.

Three years later, he appointed a circuit court judge for the six-county area of the Platte Purchase.