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An unincorporated community is one general term for a geographic area having a common social identity without municipal organization or official political designation (i.e., incorporation as a city or town). The two main types of unincorporated communities are:
Many unincorporated communities are just categorized as Category:Census-designated places in the United States and not as unincorporated communities, but not all census-designated places are unincorporated areas; instead, they may be towns, townships, villages, etc. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Unincorporated communities in the United ...
These lists of unincorporated communities list places that are not formally incorporated as towns, cities, or similar, despite being populated and locally recognized. Canada [ edit ]
Unincorporated districts, also known as U.S. Census designated places, are outlined by the government for data and do not have elected city officials. These communities, whether big or small, are ...
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Washington which are not incorporated municipalities. Incorporated municipalities in the state are listed separately in a list of cities and list of towns .
A census-designated place (CDP) [1] [2] [3] is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, [4] such as self-governing cities, towns, and villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data.
Unincorporated may refer to: . Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality; Unincorporated entity, a type of organization; Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress has determined that only select parts of the U.S. Constitution apply
Municipal annexation is a process by which a municipality acquires new territory, [1] most commonly by expanding its boundaries into an adjacent unincorporated area. This has been a common response of cities to urbanization in neighboring areas.