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Hi! I'm wondering how you found that it was now in Norcross.. I hadn't checked the topic for awhile and didn't know about the annexations. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:43, 16 February 2019 (UTC) reply

@ WhisperToMe: Hi! Quite simple, really. I just went to the Waffle House website and navigated to the 'Contact us' page. Not entirely sure what you mean about annexations in this instance. – Ntmamgtw ( talk) 22:52, 16 February 2019 (UTC) reply

I'll be happy to explain! I believe in the UK all land is within a local government agency or an LGA. This is not the case in the United States: in many states (but not all) there are unincorporated areas which belong to no municipality at all (they are only under the county or Louisiana parish government). In states with unincorporated areas, municipal governments can annex (acquire) land, and so the annexed land is no longer unincorporated but now within the city government.

Even though a place may have a street address saying "Norcross, Georgia", that doesn't mean it's in the actual city limits. The United States Postal Service assigns city names to places that are even far away from the actual city limits. There are even instances of places which have the postal address saying one city when in fact they're in another: The city of Houston municipal government discussed this here. I checked American Megatrends, which has an HQ with a Norcross address, and found that it's still outside the city limits (however I updated the citations to 2019 ones).

When I got the information about the edit notice, I wondered if an annexation had occurred (as it would mean the City of Norcross absorbed the territory), and a check of the official website confirmed that this was the case. What complicates things is that newspapers will often write "based in Norcross" etc. when this is not the case, as it's simpler to explain it that way. One often has to rely on primary sources to determine the actual locations of some of these places (though I found St. Louis, Missouri local newspapers help in that department - many places in St. Louis County have "St. Louis, Missouri" postal addresses but are not in the city - in fact St. Louis City is outside of St. Louis County!)

I know it's a complicated subject, but I hope this explanation helps!

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Thank you so much for your detailed explanation, WhisperToMe. I never really understood what an unincorporated area was until now. – Ntmamgtw ( talk) 23:39, 16 February 2019 (UTC) reply

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