Editing Village (section)

====Unincorporated villages====
[[File:Oracle AZ Mt Lemmon.JPG|thumb|[[Oracle, Arizona]] is an unincorporated rural town often called a village in local media]]
In many states, the term "village" is used to refer to a relatively small [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]], similar to a [[Hamlet (New York)|hamlet]] in New York state. This informal usage may be found even in states that have villages as an incorporated municipality, although such usage might be considered incorrect and confusing.

In most [[New England]] states, a "village" is a [[center of population]] or trade, including the town center, in an otherwise sparsely developed town or city&nbsp;— for instance, the village of [[Hyannis, Massachusetts|Hyannis]] in the town of [[Barnstable, Massachusetts]]. However, in [[Vermont]] and [[Connecticut]], both incorporated and unincorporated villages exist.