Rhode Island

It's our smallest state but it is one of the original thirteen colonies as well.

Below you'll find a list taken from a Geographical Survey report on the state in 1894.
These counties are subdivided iuto towns and cities. There are in the State thirty-four towns and two cities. They are as follows:

Bristol County:
Barrington. Bristol. Warren.
Kent County:
Coventry. East Greenwich. West Greenwich. Warwick.
Newport County:
Jamestown. Little Compton. Middletown. Newport City. New Shoreham. Portsmouth. Tiverton.
Providence County:
Burrillville. Cranston. Cumberland. East Providence. Foster. Glocester. Johnston. Lincoln. North Providence.
North Smithfield. Pawtucket. Providence City. Scituate. Smithfield. Woonsocket.
Washington County:
Charlestowu. Exeter. Hopkinton. North Kingstown. South Kingstown. Richmond. Westerly.

Today Rhode Island has the same five counties but there are some differences in the cities & towns.
Bristol County
remains the same.
Kent County
Adds West Warwick
Newport County
no longer has New Shoreham
Providence County
Adds Central Falls
Washington County:
Adds Narragansett and New Shoreham

When I come across information like this I have to wonder why New Shoreham is no longer a part of Newport County. It makes my author/researcher brain wonder and then wonder if there is a story there. More than likely there is.

The other part of what's interesting in coming across a geographical report on Rhode Island is that it names every river, hill, etc and tells where it is and where it goes to. Here's an example of the type of information in a report like this.
Name of sheets.
Abington; village in Poinfret ......................................................... Woodstock.
Above All; hill in southwest part of Warren; elevation, 1.456 feet .. New Milford.
Alewife ; cove extending from Long Island Sound into southern coast
of Waterford and New London ...................................................... New London.
Alexander; pond in northwest part of Killingly .............................. Putnam.

Anyway, I feel this is a valuable resource when writing historical fiction. Some rivers, hills, etc. may have had name changes and to someone who knows the area you're writing about this could jar them from the story.