This is a list of unincorporated communities in the

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which are not incorporated municipalities. Incorporated municipalities in the state are listed separately in a

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. Due to unreliability of the source data in the

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, items in this list may be historical places that no longer exist, places that are part of an incorporated city or town or a CDP, or never a community in the first place.

Census-designated places

There are 345 unincorporated communities that are treated as "places" for the purpose of

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data collection. These are termed

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s (CDPs) and are listed on a separate page.

Unincorporated communities (including those that are CDPs)

References

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Unincorporated Communities An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...