# Used to be called Henderson County, now Fruitland

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**Created:** [May 17, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/used-to-be-called-henderson-county-now-fruitland/79078 "2026-05-17T07:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![phma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phma/32/54376_2.png) [@phma](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phma)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/used-to-be-called-henderson-county-now-fruitland/79078/1 "2026-05-17T07:08:06Z")

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These are my first two observations of a certain boxelder tree:  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/253027634](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/253027634)  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266870745](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266870745)  
They are at the exact same location, which I did not pin, but put in a text file called `iNat` in the directory of the surveying job. The location is a ground shot near the tree. The first observation is in Henderson County, the second in Fruitland. Why?

Similarly, my latest [spring peeper](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/359143986) observation was in Bat Cave, according to the sign by the road, but is listed as only being in Henderson County. (The sign on 64-74A near the Henderson-Rutherford line was washed away by Helene.)

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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/used-to-be-called-henderson-county-now-fruitland/79078/2 "2026-05-17T11:38:56Z")

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it may be worth reading [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curiously-variable-inferred-location/34937/11](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/curiously-variable-inferred-location/34937/11) and my subsequent post in that same thread.

another possibilty is simply that Google didn’t have anything defined at the particular location except county at the time of observation creation. this could vary if observations at the same place were created at different times.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/used-to-be-called-henderson-county-now-fruitland/79078/3 "2026-07-16T11:39:48Z")

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