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Imagine a town so incredibly small that it could fit entirely inside a standard Costco parking lot. Now imagine that if a single seven-digit code were accidentally deleted from a massive federal database, every home, street, and resident would effectively vanish from the eyes of the government. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of Spring Drive Mobile Home Park, a microscopic settlement in Blair County, Pennsylvania. We unpack the "Statistical Lasso," analyzing the transition from a concentrated community in an unincorporated area to an officially recognized Census Designated Place (CDP) with its own digital fingerprint. We explore the mechanical "Anatomy Overlay," where physical townships, incorporated boroughs, and postal boundaries collide to create a functional soc ... 

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WikipediaPennsylvaniaFederal GovernmentMobile HomeHome ParkCensus BureauBlair CountySpring DriveMartinsburgDumb HundredNorth Woodbury TownshipFoot of TenSchool DistrictThe Town Inside a Costco Parking LotDrive Mobile035 SquareFips CodeStatistical LassoSeven DigitFederal Database