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Originally Posted by Stay Stoked Brah
The center was sw of the loop, included maybe 15 - 20% of water.
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oh, i thought you were placing the center of all the circles over "downtown", for the sake of a consistent measure.
the truth is there is no perfect apples-to-apples way to measure these things because not all cities occupy a vast featureless plain of buildable land, with a discreet "downtown" in the center and concentric rings of development evenly radiating out from it in all directions.
when we want to remove the arbitrariness of "city propers", while also avoiding the pitfalls of the census bureau's MSA/CSA county mash-up game, the Urban Area (UA) is the best available measure we have to get closest to an apples-to-apples comparison of the relative sizes of US "cities". it certainly ain't perfect, but it's the best we got.
and going by UA, OKC will not be touching the top 10 in the US anytime soon.