Clipping/Bounding Box

Am looking for some suggestions on the optimal way to do the following.
Using the data in the table geod_counties, one could request the features and geometries of state='New Hampshire' and county='Hillsborough'. But when one displays the results in a mapping tool such as MapViewer one would also want some of the features/geometries from the 7 counties that TOUCH (or ANYINTERACT) with Hillsborough county. In essence one clips (or cuts) the map around an area of interest creating a box. As far as I understand, other than when applied to LRS, there isn't an explicit clip/box procedure. I have tried a number of ways to do this using SDO_TOUCH, SDO_BUFFER, SDO_RELATE, SDO_INTERSECTION, and a number of others. It appears that a combination of SDO_RELATE and SDO_INTERSECTION is the correct way to do this but I am not clear that this is the optimal way to "create the box" around an area of interest.
Any comments or advice would be appreciated. And also if someone has written a function to do the above and wouldn't mind sharing, it would be appreciated.
Thank you.

I resolved this issue last Friday; am just posting this now. The following appeared to work. In this particular case, the user request is to select geometric features of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire without inputing an x/y starting centroid or a map size as you would find in MapViewer demo applications such as topology.jsp.
SQL> select sdo_geom.sdo_mbr(a.geom) mbr from geod_counties a where a.state = 'New Hampshire' and county = 'Hillsborough';
MBR(SDO_GTYPE, SDO_SRID, SDO_POINT (X,Y,Z), SDO_ELEM_INFO, SDO_ORDINATES)
SDO)GEOMETRY(2003,8307,NULL,SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,3), SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-72.062851,42.696899,-71.246002,43.207188))
SQL> select sdo_geom.sdo_intersection(geom.sdo_geometry(2003,8037,null,
sdo_elem_info_array(1,1003,3),sdo_ordinate_array(-72.062751,42.696899,-71.246002,43.207188)),0.0005) int_geom
from geod_counties a
where mdsys.sdo_relate(a.geom,sdo_geometry(2003,8307,null,sdo_elem_info_array(1,1003,3),
mdsys.sdo_ordinate_array(-72.062751,42.696899,-71.246002,43.207188)),
'mask=anyinteract querytype=window') = 'TRUE;
Thank you all for your assistance.

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