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From: Fran Dumas <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Township in Place List
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 15:42:00 -0400
References: <DNLAIJNJCBAHCCAA@mailcity.com>
In-Reply-To: <DNLAIJNJCBAHCCAA@mailcity.com>


In New York, towns are subdivisions of counties, with their own council
and supervisor. Incorporated places can be either villages or cities,
the difference being that villages are still part of a town (or towns).
All districts are also separate municipalities, like school districts
and fire districts etc. New York City has boroughs that function sort-of
like counties, but outside the city the whole state is divided into
counties, and all of those into towns. In my county (a very small one)
there are nine towns and four villages. Of the latter, two are
completely within a single town, one (the county seat) is in parts of
three towns, and the fourth is in two towns that are in two different
counties. I always thought we took the prize for municipal
complicatedness. And you need to understand these distinctions to do
genealogy.

Your post office address will probably have nothing whatever to do with
the town or village you live in. But if you live in a city, it might.

Fran Dumas
Penn Yan NY

Chuck Wolfram wrote:

>Whitehouse Station, I can almost guarantee you, is unincorporated. Perhaps once incorporated, probably an old place name constantly used by residents, but legally unknown to the state. It might even have a fire district there. But it's unincorporated. FYI: a fire district is the area that a local paid fire department, separate from a municipality, operates in. They holds their own elections (the turnout is usually truly awful) and have taxing authority.
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