legislature for a new county seated at the city and formed from parts of Belmont, Guernsey, and Monroe counties. The proposal was rejected. Oklahoma Shaffer County, proposed in 1913 by Governor Lee Cruce to be created from Creek County, Payne County, and Lincoln County. A vote held on the proposal on February 7, 1914 but failed to pass. Swanson County, proposed in 1910 to be created from Comanche County and Kiowa County. It was declared illegal by the Oklahoma Supreme Court Oregon In 1984, Wilbur Ternyik promoted an effort to form the new McCall County out of the western portions of Lane County and Douglas County. The effort was stopped by its promoter at the request of the governor. Lane County is the size of Connecticut, or of Delaware and Rhode Island combined; 4,620 square miles. "At the time we were being treated like a bunch of garbage, and we'd had enough of it," said Ternyik in 2005. Though the effort was not successful, Ternyik credited the effort with getting the county to treat their coastal constituents "a lot nicer," in part due to nervousness about losing timber revenue. In 2005, Keith Stanton began a petition to form a new county from the western portion of Lane County. The proposed county was to be named Siuslaw County. Stanton's petition was unsuccessful. According to Stanton, a new Siuslaw County was introduced in the legislature in 1913, at the behest of the timber industry, for reasons similar to those he noted in 2005; and some Mapleton residents revived the idea in 1975, but backed off when the county agreed to improve services. South Carolina Birch County, to be formed from portions of Lexington and Richland counties in the Midlands region of the state. Proposed in 2013, one-third of voters in the proposed county's area would have to petition the South Carolina Legislature to create a referendum on county creation. Two-thirds of voters in the proposed area would then be required to approve the referendum. Due to South Carolina's checkered voting rights history, the application for a new county would also require federal review and approval. Tennessee Christian County, to be formed in 1852 from parts of Gibson County, Carroll County, Henderson County, and Madison County. In 1869, there was an attempt to create Grant County out of the same area. Etheridge County, to be formed in 1870 from parts of Gibson County,