Why do unincorporated areas exist?

Question

Why having unincorporated areas?

Answer 1

An unincorporated area is simply a term for land area that is outside of city limits. Since we still have country and less densely-populated areas, we have unincorporated areas.

Sometimes you'll see unincorporated areas that are plainly part of a city (even though they may be outside the "city limits"). That happens when a city starts out small and people build houses outside of town... eventually enough houses get built that the city sort of creeps outward.

Answer 2

I think you are referring to unincoporated areas of the country or county of the state?.  Which are places that are not part of any city or town.  If a person lives in the country on a gravel road 10 miles away from town, they are in an unincoporated part of the county, becasue they do not pay taxes for city services like water, sewer, police protection, cable tv trash collection and other city services.

Answer 3

Unincorporated areas are non-cities/towns/villages that include an aggregation of housing and/or commerce, that have a common designation (willville) and that are not included in a larger city, village or town.  Generally they are provided services by the next larger unit of government (township/county).A lonely and depressing example of unincorporated places can be seen at:

http://oklahoma.hometownlocator.com/OK/A...

In this example, McWillie is referenced as a "a community or populated place".

These places exist because of the economics of providing city services to areas with low population densities.  You can;t afford a police department in a place with 250 residents unless the property tax is prohibitively high.