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Census-designated place and Hamlet

Census-designated place: "... comprising a densely settled concentration of population ... that is not part of a city or a village ... but is locally identified by a name."
Hamlet "a community within a town that is not incorporated as a village but is identified by a name."

So, are differences that a Census-designated place has to be in a densely settled concentration of population, and that a Hamlet has to be with a town (just one town)? --109.53.199.221 (talk) 22:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- Census-designated place is a designation decided upon by the Federal govt (census bureau) with local community input. A hamlet is unofficially made by community consensus basically. A hamlet can cross town borders since there are no official borders, it really just matters what the locals consider the community to encompass.Camelbinky (talk) 19:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral districts

I think there should be a section on electoral districts. Statewide there are congressional districts, state senate districts, assembly districts, judicial districts, and election districts (the basic electoral administrative division). It would also be nice to know how these interact with each other and with other administrative divisions (such as counties and NYC, the administrative divisions around which the boards of elections are organized). In New York City there also appears to be Civil Court election districts. Over time I'm sure more will come up. Int21h (talk) 04:52, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading Statement in "Towns" Section.

The first paragraph under the "Towns" section states that "[u]nlike most Northeastern states, every square foot of New York is incorporated; all residents who do not live in a city or on an Indian reservation live in a town." (Emphasis mine)

If we are defining the Northeast as the six New England states plus New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, as is almost always the case, then this statement is false. In addition to New York, every square foot of land in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island is incorporated as well. These account for five out of a total of nine states in the Northeast. I am going to go ahead and change the sentence to reflect this, but I wanted to be clear about my rationale for doing so in case there is a reason for the current wording that I have overlooked. --WhyteCypress 00:46, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merges

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was merge for the second article: the first article was dealt with in a separate discussion. Apocheir (talk) 19:21, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Social Services District (New York): Only content is that departments of social services in NY are part of the county, except in NYC. Many government agencies in NY are set up that way, so that's not notable on its own.
Town supervisor: Largely redundant with the text under Administrative divisions of New York (state) § Town.

-Apocheir (talk) 15:56, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Social Services District (New York), I note that following the above proposal there was an AFD leading to a redirect (to another target; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social Services District (New York)). So, that seems to have been resolved. For Town supervisor, I support the proposal to merge to Administrative divisions of New York (state) for the reason given. Klbrain (talk) 15:09, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.