Brief SCA Survey

[femkes_follies]

Comment, if you feel inclined, with a ball park figure of how many local groups your Kingdom has. If you're really feeling helpful, divide Baronies/Provinces from other types - but count each Canton as a Local Group, even though it belongs to a Barony.

I's curious.

Comments

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

I'll take a stab at it. According to Atlantia's newcomer site, we have:

15 Baronies
7 Shires
10 Cantons
1 dissolved Canton
1 Stronghold
2 Colleges

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I can't even keep track of the dissolved groups or incipients that never got to full status, etc. etc...

So you have a fair few Baronies with no cantons, as well.. Interesante.

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Those numbers sound out of date. Considering my barony has 5 cantons on its own, I don't see how that can be right...

OK, going here- http://acorn.atlantia.sca.org/seneschal.php, the numbers are actually:
16 Baronies, 22 Cantons, 1 College, and 1 Stronghold-turning-Barony-in-September. (And yes, I'm going to email the newcomer's-site-keeper).

The breakdown of Baronies-with-Cantons and Baronies-without-Cantons is somewhat geographical - Northern (MD and VA) baronies have few if any Cantons (8 have none, the only one with 3 is also as far south in Virginia as it can be). NC and SC Baronies tend to have many cantons, with the exception of Hawkwood which only went Barony in 2004). And a lot of those Cantons have no intention, ever, of going Shire/Barony - ie Windmasters has 5 Cantons, at least 3 and possibly 4 of which are almost as old as the Barony (pre 1980).

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

So, currently about 40, more or less.

I'm just trying to get a feel for how big the MK is, comparatively speaking.

Bigness, I'm finding, can be measured in 3 distinct ways:

Geographic size
Population
Number of active groups

All three affect the functioning of the Kingdom in different ways.