German Wireless history.

Count Arco and a small town in Idaho, USA:

Arco, Idaho, a small town on the Snake River Plain,was named for the Count Arco mentioned in your history of "Deutsche Telefunken". 

In 1901, the town, then known as Root Hog (!) moved its townsite to take advantage of the intersection of two stagecoach routes across Idaho and also to lie on a spur railroad building west from Blackfoot, Idaho.  The town leaders applied to the U.S. Post Office for the name, "Junction." 

The Postmaster General thought the name too common and suggested that the place be named Arco for Count Georg Arco who was just then visiting Washington, D.C.  So, if ever you're out on the barren Plain in central-east Idaho, about 75 miles northwest of Pocatello (itself in the middle of nowhere!), you"ll have a connection to the history of German radio!

Thanks for information to Barry blevy@u.washington.edu