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An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. [1] There are many unincorporated communities and areas in the United States and Canada, but many countries do not use the concept of an unincorporated area.
An unorganized area or unorganized territory (French: Territoire non organisé) is any geographic region in Canada that does not form part of a municipality or Indian reserve. In these areas, the lowest level of government is provincial or territorial. In some of these areas, local service agencies may have some of the responsibilities that ...
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.
The following is a partial list of named, but unincorporated, communities in the state of North Carolina. To be listed, the unincorporated community should either be, a census-designated place (CDP) or a place with at least a few commercial businesses. A crossroads is not necessarily considered an unincorporated "community". Former incorporated ...
The United States does not administer these two territories. Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory remaining, and having no government it is also unorganized. The remaining are unincorporated territories of the United States. Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are styled as commonwealths.
Massachusetts cities and towns. All territory of the state is within the bounds of a municipality. In many other states, a town is a compact incorporated area; between the towns are unincorporated areas, usually quite large, that do not belong to any town.
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
Deannexation may result in the formation of a new municipal corporation, ceding the affected land to another municipality, or returning it to its unincorporated condition. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Land is often deannexed in order to switch it from one municipality to another, or in order to form a new municipality on it.