Very interesting. In the United States, states handle
unincorporated areas differently. For 49 of the 50,
land is divided into counties (shires). In places
like Pennsylvania and some other colonial states, land
was further split into townships as a way of governing
all territory within. Inside these are cities and
other incorporated and non-incorporated types
(municipalities, towns, villages, boroughs). Some
states, however, like Indiana, have areas which are
just considered county land and are governed by the
county. In most states cities and counties overlap;
counties provide some basic services while the city
will do others. The weird exception is Virginia,
where when one enters a town or city (incorporated),
they actually leave the county! So technically, a
city like Roanoke, which is completely surrounded by
Roanoke County, is technically an enclave.
I cant think of any area of land in the US that is
unincorporated by not governed by some body, like
those you've mentioned in Australia.
--- Brendan Whyte <
brwhyte@...> wrote:
> The NW corner of NSW is not part of any shire or
> city. It is termed
> 'unincorporated area' on maps.
>
> Likewise French island, a rural holiday retreat in
> Western Port bay, Vic is
> unincorporated, as are several offshore Vic.
> islands, and the Yallourn coal
> mines in the La Trobe valley in SE Vic.
>
> Much of south Australia is also unincorporated, with
> no local government
> responsible for it. It was never subdivided for
> surveying purposes because
> it's pretty inhospitable.
> There's even a national park in NW SA that has no
> name. Maps say "unnamed
> national park". It's THAT remote.
>
> Chatham Islands NZ were a county when all of NZ was
> under county government.
> But when the 'mainland' was rejigged into regions
> and districts in the
> 1980s, the chathams were left outside this, and
> remain the only county
> government in NZ.
>
> Various areas in England were extraparochial, which
> meant important things
> when parishes were responsible for their own poor
> relief.
>
> BW
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