Talk:Burlington, Ohio

message: IMO, this article needs citations and the references written correctly.  It needs some basic cleanup.  Vbofficial 11:51, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Thank you for cleaning up the coordinates so that they are consistently the CDP ones.
*Please remove coordinates from external links,
when it was pointed out that they are redundant,
WP City removed them from the Guidelines.
*Please use a standard template to post the GIS reference link,
the recommended template is Gnis which accepts the 7-digit "Feature ID #",
and optionally alternative text (instead of the article title).
LeheckaG (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links-coordinates 

message: "Bottom Line" of the following:
*Ohio "Towns" are a legally-recorded instrument (plat map and survey) filed with the County Recorder, so they:
:*DO exist in the State of Ohio,
:*Do NOT have any additional "powers" granted directly by the State of Ohio,
:*May have additional powers granted by a County or Township (but limited to the powers a County or Township has itself and so grants).
To find out anything "official" about a specific town requires going through a County Recorder's or Township Clerk's (paper/microfilm) archives.
:Over time, some Counties and Townships are putting records on-line, but they generally have huge backlogs of records not on-line.
There may also be "Territorial towns" which were formed before Ohio was granted statehood?
:(not sure about that - just thinking outside of the box)
Under Ohio Revised Code:
:"Towns" are a surveyed and platted subdivision of Township Land creating "Town Lots",
:which are "independently"-owned (outside of an Incorporated Municipality: City or Village).
:The parent Township and County have platting/zoning supervisory authority over plats/towns (i.e. approval or denial).
"Towns" (platted collections of town lots) are legally recorded by the County Recorder.
:The ORC codifies "town lots"; it requires some Common Law and Surveying knowledge to realize plats of "town lots" are towns:
i.e. "Towns" were/are codified under United States Code, such as:
:US CODE--TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS CHAPTER 17--RESERVATION AND SALE OF TOWN SITES ON PUBLIC LANDS
:most of the Chapter has been subsequently repealed except for provisions for Alaska Native villages.
An Ohio "town" does not have any independent municipal authority (government, taxation, ...) granted to it by the State of Ohio,
:UNLESS so granted to it by the parent Township or County.
:Its (only) inherit sovereignty is its owners' rights which go along with to the land.
Basically,
:surveyed/subdivided land for which the owners and residents have not applied for Municipal (city or village) incorporation with the State of Ohio.
:If a county or township grants a town any "powers",
:then they are limited to the powers which the county or township has to grant, and has so granted.
Since a "town" is not separately incorporated by the State of Ohio, it can either be:
:an extension of County or Township government,
:or it can be an "independent" (again within the limits granted by a County or Township)
:unincorporated Cooperative or unincorporated Partnership
:(which are recognized under the Ohio Revised Code).
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*TITLE VII MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS - Chapter 711 Plats See 711.24 and 711.25 town lots not within a municipal corporation
*TITLE III COUNTIES See "town lot" or "town lots":
CHAPTER 301: ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER 317: RECORDER 317.08 Records to be kept by county recorder.
CHAPTER 319: AUDITOR 319.20 Transfer of title and tax value of property.
CHAPTER 323: COLLECTION OF TAXES 323.41 Duty of holder of land to pay taxes ...
*TITLE 57 TAXATION See "town lot" or "town lots":
CHAPTER 5701: DEFINITIONS 5701.02 Real property definitions.
CHAPTER 5721: DELINQUENT LANDS:
5721.13 Delinquent land tax certificate - master list of delinquent tracts.
5721.24 Entry marked redeemed made upon tax duplicate and delinquent tax list.
5721.26 Redemption where co-owner is not joined.
5721.27 Erroneous charge of taxes.
CHAPTER 5723: FORFEITED LANDS 5723.01 Forfeited lands.
*TITLE V TOWNSHIPS See 501 Surveyed, 503 Provisions, 504 Limited Home Rule, 519 Zoning.
LeheckaG (talk) 18:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The standard format for Wikipedia's US geography articles is the legal status: if it's a municipality, we call it what type of municipality; if it's unincorporated and a CDP, we call it a CDP; and if it's unincorporated and not a CDP, we call it something else: in parts of New England, a village, and virtually everywhere else, an unincorporated community.  I don't know about what it's like in Alaska, but as an Ohio native I can tell you that Ohioans typically use "town" to mean a specific little area settled with houses and possibly other buildings — regardless of the incorporation status — and I'd guess that such is the meaning of the law.  As "town" is ambiguous in Ohio, and as it's quite precise in other states (including Indiana and West Virginia), it's best not to use it in an Ohio context.  Nyttend (talk) 19:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ohio Revised Code - Towns 

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