Panhandle (Texas); PUMA (Public Use Microdata Area)

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Does OED or anyone else have any better than this (1888?) for (Texas) "panhandle"? Does OED have PUMA (Public Interest Microdata Area) and PUMS (Public Interest Microdata Sample)?
--Barry Popik,
who killed Stephen Vincent Benet (in a high school reading).
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(OED)
panhandle
    1. orig. and chiefly U.S. A long narrow strip of land projecting from a larger territory.
  Originally used with reference to parts of Virginia, and subsequently of other states, esp. as a name for the north-western part of Texas. 
1849 J. J. HOOPER in Spirit of Times 14 Apr. 87/3 The elephant was the great point of attraction. ‘I want his hide and frame for a corn crib,’ said a fellow from the Pan-Handle Beat. 1856 Porter's Spirit of Times 8 Nov. 159/1 He was from old Virginnyfrom what, he said, they called the Pan-handle. 1862 Congress. Globe 11 Feb. 754/3, I want to compare the district of Mr. Segar with the Wheeling district. One is called the pan-handle of the East, and the other the pan-handle of the West. 1888 Missouri Republican 24 Feb. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) 408/1 The Panhandle of Texas offers desirable homes to a million of people, at a nominal price.
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Census Data for Transportation Planning: PUMS & PUMA Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMA). The PUMS data is released at geographic areas called Public Use Microdata Areas, or PUMAs. The minimum size threshhold ...
www.trbcensus.com/pums.html - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
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