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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue and make as many as you need.): Certain counties are not showing up when you search for them to add them to a project. There has already been a place created for them
Step 1: I was looking at adding all of the counties in the general area of East Texas to a new project. Upon searching for them, all showed up say for Franklin Co, TX. (see photo 2)
Step 2: I looked to see if a place has been created for the location and it already exists (see photo 1). It has also been added to projects.
Welcome to the forum! I’m able to find it for a traditional project but it looks like you’re using a collection project. Did you try searching for “Franklin County, US, TX”? It looks like there’s lots of Franklin Counties and it might not be visible in that search.
Yes, I did, and nothing showed up. The options listed are all that are available. I also looked for “Franklin County, TX, US” and nothing showed up. Also sorry for not clarifying that!
We need to figure out a way to either improve the search functionality here (it’s not the first time it’s happened) or use a script to change US county place names (not the display name) and add the “US, [state]” to them.
I have created a project (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/khs-2022-fall-field-trip).
Wanted it to be for a specific county in Kansas (Montgomery), but it was not available in the dropdown list. Have created many county-specific projects in the past.
without iNat staff intervention, the only other way i can think of to add the county would be via an API request. let me know if you’re interested in going down that route and need help with that.
Hi! I’m having a similar issue here. I’ve managed to add every county in the NC Coastal Plain to my project except for Washington County, which I can see in iNaturalist here: Washington County, US, NC · iNaturalist
However, when I type it in, no option for North Carolina comes up. This doesn’t change if I type Washington County, NC, US or Washington County, US, NC
Thank you for taking the time to adjust these little bugs @tiwane
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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
When I identify observations I often go through them systematically by county. While identifying observations from Colorado I found myself unable to select Washington Co. in the Identify menu. There are many Washington Counties in the U.S. but the one from Colorado does not show up among the options, and I can’t input it manually. It can’t be accessed through More filters, either. The only way I can bring it up is by manually inserting the place code (which is 2579) into the URL. There is no problem accessing this county in Explore: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=2579. I can simply type the name and it will eventually show up in the choices. Any idea what causes this? Anyone else has had a problem accessing a particular place in Identify?
I remember running into the same issue about a year ago. So it’s not a temporary problem.
There is inconsistency how county names are displayed. They show up either as: [county name], US, [state] or as [county name], [state], US. The screen shot above shows all the Washington counties that follow the first style. But there are at least three that follow the second style (namely PA, ME, MD):
That’s an odd fact but I don’t believe it creates this problem. Washington Co., CO, follows the first style when I edit the URL. But when I type “Washington Co., US, CO” in the Place box the selection goes blank. This is obviously a bug.
Thank youu 
