Talk:Q17343829
Autodescription — unincorporated community in the United States (Q17343829)
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Any unincorporated settlements outside the USA?[edit]
There is a discussion at Talk:Q269528#Any unincorporated settlements outside the USA? that also concerns this item. Please reply there if you have a comment. --Closeapple (talk) 02:15, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
- Of course there are many in many countries, or their dependencies. Most of them are villages, or inhabited islands, which don't have their own local or municipal government (elected or designated), but may have their own assigned budget or local services; some of them also result from the merging of several former municipalities (this is the case for most municipalities in Belgium, and many in Metropolitan France, and most in French and American overseas islands). If you go to Africa, the municipal authorities do not exist for all villages, most of them are grouped into local municipalities (or circles) which manage the urbanized area only, but not the rural area (including natural parks or hinting reserves) which is directly administered by a larger region or by the state (sometimes by national armed forces). The same occurs as well in most of the less developed countries. And you can find them as well in Canada, Australia... Verdy p (talk) 13:30, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Areas with official status but "streamlined" government[edit]
Vermont (a US state) has provisions for unorganized towns and gores. These entities are recognized as municipalities by the state, however, the state considers the population too low to support a full-fledged town government with town officers who are residents of the town, annual town meeting, and so on. So these unincorporated towns and gores are governed at the county level, but they are governed separately (they each have their own budgets, tax rates, ordinances, etc.)
I believe this property item is intended for communities that lack any form of government or recognition as a municipality; such communities would be essentially neighborhoods. So I don't think this item should be applied to unorganized towns and gores.
For further information see Title 24, Chapter 41, Vermont Statutes Annotated and Title 24, Chapter 43, Vermont Statutes Annotated. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:13, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
- This thread was started due to an edit by User:TomT0m to Averill (Q1973943). TomTOm indicated the edit was made because on the English Wikipedia, Averill was included in the Census-designated place category (en:Category:Census-designated places in Essex County, Vermont). which in turn is included in en:Category:Unincorporated communities in Vermont. In fact, Averill is not in "Category:Census-designated places in Essex County, Vermont" but is in "Category:Census-designated places in Essex County, Vermont", which is an error that I will correct.
- I think it is almost always true that census-designated places are unincorporated communities. Jc3s5h (talk) 19:33, 6 September 2017 (UTC)