<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">On February 1, 2014 7:04:43 PM CST, Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2/1/14 3:59 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> I have some trouble though with the notion of "village" in the US.<br /> Looking back to what I know about US (which could be partially wrong),<br /> I'm not sure they really have the true notion of "village" as per many<br /> other places in the world. In the US, it always seemed to be about<br /> isolated farms, and towns. Both from a size point of view, but most<br /> importantly from a functional point of view. In Europe and other parts<br /> of the world, the notion of village is steeped in a long history of a<br /> group of people working the land, and many times being subject to the<br /> authority of one local land owner. All of that doesn't really exist in<br /> the US, if my knowledge serves me right. Even the smallest of<br /> settlements (bigger than a farm) seemed to have started
in the US<br /> around a group of facilities, such as shops, entertainment venues,<br /> trading facilities etc. - which would directly correspond functionally<br /> to a town.<br /></blockquote>Village is something that will vary. in NY, a village is an incorporated<br />governmental<br />entity which is much smaller than a city. (all of what follows is NY<br />specific, by the way).<br />where as a county in NY (NYC excepted) is completely tiled by cities and<br />towns, villages<br />are mostly contained within towns (but some villages do cross town<br />boundaries.)<br /><br />in NY, Hamlet is the term used for random place names where there isn't<br />a corresponding<br />governmental entity.<br /><br />richard<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">The definitions vary widely, state by state. In Virginia, a town or village may have its own local government, but is subordinate to the government of the county containing it. A city in Virginia, by contrast, has a local
government on the same level as a county government, and is not considered to be part of the county even if it is completely surrounded by the county.<br>
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