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A gore (or, sometimes, a grant), in parts of the northeastern United States (mainly northern New England), is an unincorporated area of a county that is not part of any town and has limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
Historically, gores were generally the result of errors when the land was first surveyed and the towns laid out. A gore would lie in an area between two (supposedly abutting) towns but would technically be in neither. Surrounding towns have been known to absorb a gore — for example, the gore between Tunbridge, Vermont, and Royalton, Vermont, was eventually attributed to Tunbridge. Some gores have become towns in their own right, such as Stannard, Vermont.
Different states have different laws governing gores and other unincorporated territories. In Maine, all unincorporated territories (whether townships, gores, plantations, or grants) are governed directly by the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission, a state agency. They do not, therefore, enjoy the rights and obligations of direct local self-governance of a corporate Maine municipality, via local elections of town Boards of Selectmen, and town meetings that debate and approve the town budget and expenditures. Occasionally, a town will choose to become unincorporated after having been an incorporated town; a recent example of this is the town of Madrid, Maine.
List
Some of New England's gores:
Gore County 2000 Population Area in km² (mi²) [1] Averys Gore, Vermont Essex County, Vermont 0 17.6 square miles (45.6 km²) [2] Buels Gore, Vermont Chittenden County, Vermont 12 5.1 square miles (13.1 km²) [3] Warner's Grant, Vermont Essex County, Vermont 0 3.2 square miles (8.2 km²) [4] Warren Gore, Vermont Essex County, Vermont 10 11.6 square miles (30.0 km²) [5] Hibberts Gore, Maine Lincoln County, Maine 1 2.0 km² (.77 mi²) * Blake Gore, Maine Somerset County, Maine 0 <n/a> * Coburn Gore, Maine Franklin County, Maine 0 <n/a> * Gorham Gore, Maine Franklin County, Maine 0 <n/a> * Massachusetts Gore, Maine Franklin County, Maine 0 <n/a> * Misery Gore, Maine Somerset County, Maine 0 <n/a> * Veazie Gore, Maine Penobscot County, Maine 0 <n/a> * Not considered a census-designated place by the United States Census, but legally considered a minor civil division by the state of Maine
See also
- List of places with fewer than ten residents
- The Unseen (book), which author Joseph A. Citro had originally titled The Gore
Categories:- New England
- Subdivisions of the United States
- Local government in Vermont
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