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« on: January 07, 2017, 07:45:10 PM »
« edited: January 09, 2017, 03:53:10 AM by jimrtex »

Alabama

Alabama has 578 places: 167 cities, 293 towns, and 118 CDP's. It appears the threshold for a city is 2,000 persons. There are a few towns with greater population, but this appears to be the result of population increase between the census. One city has a population less than 2000, and had a drop in population.

Population distribution of places: 85.7% in cities, 7.8% in towns, and 6.5% in CDP's.

59.0% of the Alabama population is urban; 64.6% live in places.

The most populous CDP is Tillmans Corner, population 17,398, which makes it the 32nd largest place in Alabama. Tillmans Corner is adjacent to the southwest corner of Mobile.

Alaska

Alaska has 355 places, 1 municipality (Anchorage), 147 cities, and 207 CDP's. Three of the cities are "city and borough", Juneau, Sitka, and Wrangell. In Alaska, boroughs are treated as county equivalents, but in those three instances the borough and city governments have fused. When Skagway Borough was formed in 2007, the city of Skagway disincorporated. Formally, the government is the Municipality of Skagway Borough. Since the Census Bureau treats boroughs in Alaska as county equivalents, it has designated Skagway CDP to be coterminous with the borough.

Five of the ten largest places in Alaska are CDP's: Badger, Knik-Fairview, College, Lakes and Tanaina. The 17 largest CDP's in Alaska (those with more than 3000 persons) are contained in three boroughs. Fairbanks North Star Borough includes Badger, College, Steele Creek, Chena Ridge, and Goldstream; Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough includes Knik-Fairview, Lakes, Tanaina, Meadow Lakes, Gateway, Farmers Loop, Fishhook, Big Lake and Butte; and Kenai Peninsula Borough includes Kalifornsky, Sterling and Nikiski.

Population distribution of places: 42.3% in municipalities (Anchorage), 29.4% in cities, 28.3% in CDP's.

66.0% of the Alaska population is urban; 97.1% live in places.

The most populous CDP is Badger, population 19,482, which makes it the 4th largest place in Alaska. Badger is southeast of Fairbanks. There are three CDP's in Alaska with a population of 0: Chisana, Flat, and Mertarvik. Chisana are gold mining ghost towns. Flat had 6,000 residents in 1914. Mertarvik is intended to be a replacement site for Newtok, which is eroding into the Ningliq River.

Arizona

Alabama has 451 places: 45 cities, 45 towns, and 361 CDP's. It is unclear what is the threshold for a city. The Town of Gilbert has over 200,000 persons.

Population distribution of places: 74.4% in cities, 10.5% in towns, and 15.1% in CDP's.

89.8% of the Arizona population is urban; 92.6% live in places.

The most populous CDP is San Tan Valley, population 81,321, which makes it the 12th largest place in Arizona. San Tan Valley is in extreme northeastern Pinal County, just outside Maricopa County. The town of Florence has opposed incorporation efforts.

Arkansas

Arkansas has 541 places: 311 cities, 191 towns, and 39 CDP's. The threshold between cities and towns appears to be around 500, though there are exceptions. The town of Bella Vista has 26,461 persons, and is the 17th most populous incorporated place in Arkansas, and is larger than 95% of the cities. Bella Vista is a retirement community in extreme northwestern Arkansas (the Missouri line is the northern city limits). The city of Wiederkehr Village has 38 persons and is the 5th least populated incorporated place in Arkansas, and is smaller than 98% of the towns.

Population distribution of places: 93.0% in cities, 3.8% in towns, and 3.2% in CDP's.

56.2% of the Arkansas population is urban; 66.6% live in places.

The most populous CDP is Hot Springs Viilage, population 12,807, which makes it the 30th largest place in Arizona. Hot Springs Village is north of the city of Hot Springs, and according to Wikipedia is the largest gated community in the United State.
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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2017, 04:26:41 AM »

Cool thread!

Looks like you are working your way through alphabetically?
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« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2017, 05:58:50 AM »

Haines, AK voted to consolidate the city with its borough in 2002. They officially took the name of Haines borough. I presume that the Census chose to recognize a CDP for Haines within the borough.

Yakutat consolidated in 1992, but seems to be treated the same way. However, the official website for Yakutat calls itself the City and Borough of Yakutat, and the Census uses that name for the borough. Even the borough code calls it the City and Borough of Yakutat. Why does the Census have a Yakutat CDP, but not a place called the city and borough of Yakutat?

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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2017, 03:28:00 AM »

Haines, AK voted to consolidate the city with its borough in 2002. They officially took the name of Haines borough. I presume that the Census chose to recognize a CDP for Haines within the borough.

Yakutat consolidated in 1992, but seems to be treated the same way. However, the official website for Yakutat calls itself the City and Borough of Yakutat, and the Census uses that name for the borough. Even the borough code calls it the City and Borough of Yakutat. Why does the Census have a Yakutat CDP, but not a place called the city and borough of Yakutat?

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Alaska has two types of municipalities:
a. boroughs
b. cities

It also has unified municipalities which are both. There are currently four unified municipalities: Anchorage, Juneau, Sitka, and Wrangell. So they are treated by the census bureau as county equivalents and incorporated places.

Alaska law does not permit cities to exist within unified municipalities.

Haines, Skagway, Yakutat, and Petersburg (since 2013) boroughs are not unified municipalities, even though the principal city dissolved at the time of their incorporation.

Alaska law does permit cities to incorporate within non-unified boroughs. But all boundary changes must be approved by the Local Boundary Commission. Alaska permits local government to determine which services they provide, but does not let them set their own boundaries.

The Alaska Constitution provides for the entire state to be covered by boroughs, either organized or unorganized. The legislature has provided that the remainder of the state not in organized boroughs be the Unorganized Borough (singular). This appears to contradict the spirit of the constitution that each borough be based on a common interest. But instead the legislature has provided legislation for areas outside of organized boroughs. The Local Boundary Commission has defined model boroughs that could be used as a "county" map covering the entire state.

The legislature in the 1960s created the first eight boroughs, or rather threatened to create them if the local residents did not. Since then, it appears that it has degenerated into a system where local initiative is required, and often proposals have been defeated. Cities have been incorporated in order to feel the gap.

The entire population of the Yakutat borough resides in the former Yakutat city, now Yakutat CDP. Perhaps the name was adopted to reflect the fact that the borough is the successor to the city.

The original proposal for Skagway borough was rejected by the Local Boundary Commission, which indicated that Skagway officials were going to go to the legislature to get a change in law. The official name of the borough is Municipality of Skagway.

It took several elections for Haines Borough to be approved. There may be some tension between the (former) city of Haines and the rest of the bureau. The census bureau recognizes 6 CDP's in the borough: Haines 1713; Mosquito Lake 309; Mud Bay 212; Covenant Life 86; Lutak 49; Excursion Inlet. There are also 127 persons outside any CDP.

The original Haines Borough was the only 3rd Class Borough ever established in Alaska, and it is no longer permitted to form 3rd Class Boroughs. In Alaska, organized boroughs are responsible for education, but the only power of a 3rd Class borough was education, so effectively there was no local government outside the city of Haines.

Boroughs may establish service areas, which provide specific services, and if I understand correctly can have separate tax authorities. The Townsite Service Area has been established in the former city of Haines. It provides police, fire, animal control, and public works. It does not have its own governing body, but instead is controlled by the borough mayor and assembly (and administered by the borough manager).

When Petersburg Borough was formed, the city of Petersburg dissolved and became a service area. The city of Kupreanof continues in existence. Kupreanof has a population of 27, and is across a channel from Petersburg. It was probably included in the borough to permit students to continue to attend school in Petersburg.
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2017, 05:01:53 AM »

I read through the annual reports of the Local Boundary Commission (LBC) linked to at Local Boundary Commission Information, and there appears to be a change of emphasis over the last decade or so.

The LBC is one of five agencies specifically provided for in the Alaska Constitution. In earlier reports the LBC was quite assertive in promoting creation of unorganized boroughs throughout the State, which the legislature ignored. The commission believed that the intent was to create large regional bodies, which would have planning, education, and platting authority, while there might be cities or service areas for local city services (e.g. water, sewer, streets, police, and fire). The LBC went so far as producing a model borough plan which would create unorganized boroughs throughout the state.

The LBC originally turned down incorporation of Skagway as borough as representing too small an area, and even though it had already been isolated by Haines.This was challenged in the Alaska Supreme Court that ruled the LBC had made a post hoc regulation (the Alaska Constitution requires the LBC to make reasonable judgements). By the time the LBC reconsidered the application of Skagway, most of the five commissioners had changed, and they approved the creation of the borough, which passed with 95% approval.

It appears that the conversion of Wrangell to a borough was triggered by efforts in Petersburg, but Wrangell finished 4 years earlier. Under the model plan Wrangell-Petersburg would have been a single borough.

When Ketchikan consolidated with the Outer Ketchikan borough, Hyder was excluded. At that time, the LBC said that Ketchikan had to include Hyder within five years, or the LBC would initiate the change. Five years have come and gone, and I can find little mention of Hyder. Hyder is at the extreme southeastern tip of the panhandle, and is one of three towns in the southeast that can be reached by road. The other two being Skagway and Haines. Hyder is adjacent to the British Columbia town of Stewart.

Many of the specific items in the reports were merely contacts, where someone would call the LBC, and they would explain the process, and send some information, and that the LBC did not know if the person making contact would proceed with formal action.
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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2017, 01:14:23 AM »
« Edited: January 11, 2017, 06:38:00 AM by jimrtex »

California

California has 1523 places: 459 cities, 21 towns, and 1043 CDP's. There is no legal difference between a "town" and "city". The use of "town" appears to be particularly prevalent in leafier residential communities in Marin and San Mateo counties, such as Los Gatos, San Anselmo, Hillsborough, Corte Madera, Tiburon, Fairfax, Atherton, Woodside, Portola Valley, and Ross. The largest town is Apple Valley 69,135, which was incorporated in 1988. Perhaps "town" was chosen to convey a leafy exurban existence. There are actually 22 towns. Yountville, incorporated in 1965 as a city, changed the name in its charter in 1980, but this was apparently not noticed by the Census Bureau. If Yountville had a baseball team, would they be the Robins?

There are 66 cities in California with over 100,000 persons. Incorporations have occurred in spurts over the years.

1850s: 21 incorporations, including 8 cities which have over 100,000 persons: Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Stockton.
1860s: 10(4): San Bernardino, Santa Buenaventura (Ventura), Santa Rosa, and Vallejo. The Census Bureau recognizes both names of Ventura. The city charter and city seal use the longer name, but the city website uses the short version.
1870s: 24(6): Anaheim, Antioch, Berkeley, Hayward, Salinas, and Visalia.
1880s: 32(9): Escondido, Fresno, Modesto, Oceanside, Orange, Pasadena, Pomona, Riverside, and Santa Ana.
1890s: 25(4): Bakersfield, Corona, Long Beach, and Ontario. In 1950, when the Census Bureau first recognized unincorporated places, East Bakersfield (unincorporated) had more population than the city of Bakersfield (38K v 34K).
1900s: 72(9): Concord, Fairfield, Fullerton, Glendale, Huntington Beach, Inglewood, Oxnard, Richmond, and Roseville. The 1900s was the peak year for incorporations. The law may have changed, or perhaps there were copycats.
1910s: 59(5): Burbank, Chula Vista, Daly City, El Monte, and Sunnyvale. Incorporations began to drop off.
1920s: 29(2): Torrance and West Covina.
1930s: 9(0).
1940s: 21(0). Between West Covina's incorporation in 1923, and Fontana's in 1952, 29 years passed.
1950s: 55(7): Carlsbad, Costa Mesa, Downey, Fontana, Fremont, Garden Grove, and Norwalk. An upsurge as suburbs sprout in southeast Los Angeles County and elsewhere.
1960s: 46(4): Palmdale, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, and Simi Valley.
1970s: 19(3): Irvine, Lancaster, and Rancho Cucamonga.
1980s: 34(3): Moreno Valley, Santa Clarita, and Temecula.
1990s: 17(1): Murrieta.
2000s: 7(1): Elk Grove.
2010s: 2(0). The two new cities increase the number of cities to 463, and eliminate 5 CDP's.

California has established Local Agency Formation Commissions (LAFCO, apparently pronounced  Laugh-Co) in each county. While ostensibly intended to produce more structurally sound growth and local governance, it may have resulted in wrapping the process in red tape so no changes occur.

In addition, the state has cut off a major source of local funding, that from vehicle registration fees. Cities did not receive money directly from vehicle fees in their area, but rather a per capita amount that was based on the amount that registration fees ostensibly generated. New cities and annexed areas received a bonus to help them get established. In 2012, in order to balance the state budget, the payments to cities were eliminated. This occurred two days before the last city to incorporate voted to incorporate. Jurupa Valley, in northwestern Riverside County, later considered deincorporation as its finances were flipped upside down. Governor Brown has twice vetoed bills that would have restored the payments to cities.

New cities must also compensate counties for lost revenue. When Olympic Valley (adjacent to Squaw Valley ski resort) attempted to incorporate, with hotel taxes a major source of anticipated revenue, they found that the county claimed they used the tax to promote the whole Lake Tahoe area. Without that money, the proposed city was not economically viable.

Population distribution of places: 86.5% in cities, 1.0% in towns, and 12.6% in CDP's.

95.0% of the California population is urban; 94.4% live in places.

East Los Angeles with a population of 126,496 making it the 44th largest place in California, and the largest CDP in the country. Recently there was a proposal to incorporate the area, which was turned down because the city couldn't pay for itself. Remarkably they managed to get 16K signatures on a petition out of a potential 39K registered voters in the area.

Other large Caifornia CDP's:

Arden-Arcade (Sacramento) 92,186, incorporation vote failed in 2010;
Florence-Graham (South Central Los Angeles) 63,387, locally known as Florence-Firestone. Florence is also a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles to the west.
Carmichael (Sacramento) 61,762;
Castro Valley (Alameda, southeast of Oakland) 61,388, incorporation vote failed in 2002;
South Whittier (Los Angeles, southwest of Whittier) 57,156;
Hacienda Heights (Eastern Los Angeles, south of Pomona Freeway) 54,038, incorporation votes failed in 1992 and 2003;
Eastvale (Riverside) 53,668, incorporated as city of Eastvale in 2010, CDP dissolved.

There are seven CDPs with 0 population: Almanor and Caribou in Plumas County; Cedar Slope, Silver City, and Sugarloaf Mountain Park in Tulare County; University of California Merced in Merced County; and Valley Wells in Inyo County.

Plumas County is in the Sierras north of Sacramento, and includes (former) mining and logging towns, as well as 2nd homes. As a mountainous area, housing tends to be clustered. The county has identified clusters of homes to be designated as CDP's to assist in redistricting of supervisor districts. They have also sought to have ridge lines identified as block boundaries. Plumas County has 46 CDP's, 21 of which have less than 100 residents. The county only has 20,000 population. It is quite likely that much  housing is seasonal, and not occupied by permanent residents, particularly in April.

Tulare County  has 59 CDP's, 19 of which have less than 100 residents. The zero population CDP's are in the Sierras. One of the zero population CDP's is in a cluster of eight CDP's with a total population of 141. Residency may be seasonal. Tulare has also identified many small CDP's in the San Joaquin Valley. I suspect many are housing for farm workers, that may have quite limited utilities. Some are upward of 90% Hispanic.

University of California Merced is the newest campus of the University of California System. The campus is in a totally isolated area with no nearby off-campus housing. The first dorms appear to have been built in 2005, so I don't know why there was no population in 2010. Perhaps they had students report residency elsewhere.

Valley Wells is in extreme southern Inyo County, near the San Bernardino County line. It was formerly part of Homewood Canyon-Valley Wells CDP. It appears that the CDP was split to recognize where people actually live, and Valley Wells was left as an empty placeholder. Homewood Canyon CDP had 44 persons in 2010.

Colorado

Colorado has  458 places: 75 cities, 196 towns, and 187 CDP's. There is little difference between cities and towns. Statutory towns must have 2000 persons to convert to a statutory city, but there is little difference in the powers of the two classes. There is a small difference in that cities elect their city councils by districts, while town councils elect their town council at large. Home rule cities can choose their own name. Since 1970, there has been no restriction on the population needed to adopt a home rule charter.

Garden City, Lake City, Orchard City, and Sugar City are towns. The City of Central is a city which the Census Bureau lists as Central City city. The City of Creede, is a town, which the Census Bureau alphabetizes as "City of Creede town", between Cheyenne Wells and Colorado Springs, rather than between Craig and Cripple Creek.

The largest town is Castle Rock 48,231, the 18th most populous place, while the smallest city is Victor with a population of 397.

Population distribution of places: 76.3% in cities, 9.3% in towns, and 14.4% in CDP's.

86.2% of the Colorado population is urban; 85.5% live in places.

The most populous CDP is Highlands Ranch with a population of 96,713 making it the 12th largest place in Colorado. The area, south of Denver was a single development which used special districts to provide services, while the developer provided planning.
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