On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Sebastian Arcus <s.ar...@open-t.co.uk> wrote: > All of that doesn't really exist in the US, if my knowledge serves me right. > Even the smallest of settlements (bigger than a farm) seemed to have started > in the US around a group of facilities, such as shops, entertainment venues, > trading facilities etc. - which would directly correspond functionally to a > town.
In the developing USA, a major milestone was the opening of a post office. Thus it was not a real named town until the post office moved in. These days in California the creation of dissolution of a municipal entity is controlled Local Agency Formation Commissions or "LAFCOS" (Under Title 5, Division 3 of California Government Code the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act). A new community requires 500 people represented. But an older community can wither down to nothing as long as it continues to meet all other obligations. Similarly a town can loose it's post office without loosing status as a municipal entity. And it can keep it's name (Town or City) no matter how small it goes. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us