Talk:List of unincorporated communities in Virginia/Archive 1

Archive 1

Missing

Where's Arlington? Artaxerxes (talk) 22:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Arlington is a county, not an unincorporated community. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 20:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Inaccurate

This list is for unincorporated towns in Virginia. I do not believe it should list towns such as Great Bridge (Norfolk County), Holland (Nansemond County, Kempsville (Princess Anne County), Nurney(Nansemond County), Princess Anne (Princess Anne County), and Whaleyville (Nansemond County). There are a number of additional places that could also be included in this list such as Deep Creek (Norfolk County), Norview (Norfolk County), Ocean View (Norfolk County, etc. These may have been unincorporated towns when they sat inside the boundaries of their former counties but they are now entirely within the boundaries of an incorporated city (Nansemond County = City of Nansemond and eventually City of Suffolk; Princess Anne County = City of Virginia Beach; Norfolk County = City of Norfolk or City of Chesapeake. In fact most of the major names within the Hampton Roads cities are former towns or other settlements that have been nearly wiped from history by being part of their respective cities. Holland and Princess Anne are listed on under the "Lost unincorporated towns and communities" of the "Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia" page. (Norfolk87 (talk) 18:41, 30 January 2012 (UTC))

I disagree. Unincorporated_communities#United_States states:

An unincorporated community is one general term for a geographic area having a common social identity without benefit of municipal organization or official political designation (i.e., incorporation as a city or town). There are two main types of unincorporated communities:

• • a neighborhood or other community existing within one or across multiple existing incorporated areas (i.e., cities or towns). In this sense, a community is part of a municipal government, but not separately incorporated from it. For example, Hyannis, Massachusetts, is an unincorporated village within the town of Barnstable.

• • a neighborhood or other community existing outside of an incorporated municipal government. In this sense, the community is outside of any municipal government, and entirely unincorporated. Examples include: Hovland, Minnesota; Lehigh, Wisconsin; Nutbush, Tennessee; and Yucca, Arizona; small rural settlements of low population.

Those places do not fit the first destination, but they do fit the second. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 05:35, 26 June 2013 (UTC)