Hamlet (place)#New York

The word comes from Anglo-Norman {{lang|xno|hamelet}}, corresponding to Old French {{lang|fro|hamelet}}, the diminutive of Old French {{lang|fro|hamel}} meaning a little village. This, in turn, is a diminutive of Old French {{lang|fro|ham}}, possibly borrowed from (West Germanic) Franconian languages. It is related to the modern French {{lang|fr|hameau}}, Dutch {{lang|nl|heem}}, Frisian {{lang|fy|hiem}}, German {{lang|de|Heim}}, Old English {{lang|ang|hām}}, and Modern English home.T. F. Hoad, English Etymology, Oxford University Press, 1993, {{ISBN|0-19-283098-8}}.

In Afghanistan, the counterpart of the hamlet is the qala (Dari: قلعه, Pashto: کلي) meaning "fort"{{Cite web|url=http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.4:1:44.hayyim|title=New Persian-English dictionary, complete and modern, designed to give the English meanings of over 50,000 words, terms, idioms, and proverbs in the Persian language, as well as the transliteration of the words in English characters. Together with a sufficient treatment of all the grammatical features of the Persian Language|last=Sulayman|first=Hayyim|date=1934–1936|website=dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu|publisher=University of Chicago|access-date=2018-05-04|archive-date=2021-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224075514/http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.4:1:44.hayyim|url-status=dead}} or "hamlet".{{Cite web|url=http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:1793.raverty|title=A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans|website=dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu|access-date=2018-05-04|archive-date=2021-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044257/http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:1793.raverty|url-status=dead}} The Afghan qala is a fortified group of houses, generally with its own community building such as a mosque, but without its own marketplace. The qala is the smallest type of settlement in Afghan society, outsized by the village (Dari/Pashto: ده), which is larger and includes a commercial area.

In Canada's three territories, hamlets are officially designated municipalities.{{cite web |url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/92f0009x/92f0009x2010000-eng.pdf |author=Statistics Canada |author-link=Statistics Canada |title=Interim List of Changes to Municipal Boundaries, Status, and Names (From January 2, 2009 to January 1, 2010) |year=2010 |access-date=2010-11-17}} As of January 1, 2010:

• Northwest Territories had 11 hamlets, each of which had a population of less than 900 people as of the 2016 census;{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=62| title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Northwest Territories) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 8, 2017 | access-date=April 19, 2018}}
• Nunavut had 24 hamlets, with populations ranging from 129 to 2,842 as of the 2016 census;{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=62| title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Nunavut) | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 8, 2017 | access-date=April 19, 2018}} and
• Yukon had two hamlets, both of which had a population of less than 450 people as of the 2016 census.{{cite web |url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&PR=60&S=86&O=A&RPP=25 |author=Statistics Canada |author-link=Statistics Canada |title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2006 and 2001 censuses – 100% data (Yukon Territory) |date=2018-02-08 |access-date=2018-04-18}}

In Canada's provinces, hamlets are usually small unincorporated communities within a larger municipality (similar to civil townships in the United States), such as many communities within the single-tier municipalities of Ontario,{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} Alberta's specialized and rural municipalities,{{cite web |url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/msb/2010-ruralmun.pdf |author=Alberta Municipal Affairs |author-link=Alberta Municipal Affairs |title=Specialized and Rural Municipalities and Their Communities |date=2010-04-01 |access-date=2010-11-17 |archive-date=2010-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117075917/http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/msb/2010-ruralmun.pdf |url-status=dead }} and Saskatchewan's rural municipalities.{{cite web | url=https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/municipal-administration/community-planning-land-use-and-development/municipal-status-and-boundary-changes/establishing-an-organized-hamlets | title=Hamlets and Organized Hamlets | publisher=Government of Saskatchewan | accessdate=August 18, 2024}}

Canada's two largest hamlets—Fort McMurray (formerly incorporated as a city){{cite web |url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/cfml/MunicipalProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=BasicReport&MunicipalityType=SMUN&stakeholder=508&profileType=HIST&profileType=CONT&profileType=STAT&profileType=FINA&profileType=GRAN&profileType=TAXR&profileType=ASSE |author=Alberta Municipal Affairs |author-link=Alberta Municipal Affairs |title=Municipal Profile – Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo |date=2010-11-15 |access-date=2010-11-17}} and Sherwood Park—are located in Alberta. They each have populations, within their main urban area, in excess of 60,000—well in excess of the 10,000-person threshold that can choose to incorporate as a city in Alberta.{{cite web |url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/LGS/2009pop.pdf |author=Alberta Municipal Affairs |author-link=Alberta Municipal Affairs |title=2009 Official Population List |date=2009-09-15 |access-date=2010-11-17}}{{cite web |url=http://www.qp.alberta.ca/574.cfm?page=M26.cfm&leg_type=Acts&isbncln=9780779744916 |author=Alberta Queen's Printer |title=2009 Official Population List |date=2009-09-15 |access-date=2010-11-17}} As such, these two hamlets have been further designated by the Province of Alberta as urban service areas.{{cite web | url=https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/7b81986c-b05a-4b72-8f12-aec3a22970ae/resource/6c56c4f5-0a7e-49fa-918e-502e51c955ad/download/2020-lgcode.pdf | title=2020 Municipal Codes | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | date=December 18, 2020 | accessdate=September 30, 2021}} An urban service area is recognized as equivalent to a city for the purposes of provincial and federal program delivery and grant eligibility.{{cite web |url=http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/SMUN/0508/Regional_Municipality_of_Wood_Buffalo_OC_817_94_1995_No7.pdf |author=Province of Alberta |title=Order in Council 817/94 (R.M. of Wood Buffalo status change to specialized municipality) |date=1994-12-21 |access-date=2010-11-17}}{{cite web |url=http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/SMUN/0302/Strathcona_County_OC_761_95_1996_No9.pdf |author=Province of Alberta |title=Order in Council 761/95 (Strathcona County status change to specialized municipality) |date=1995-12-06 |access-date=2010-11-17}}

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A hamlet ({{langx|fr|hameau}}) is a group of rural dwellings, usually too small to be considered a village. The term {{lang|fr|Lieu-dit}} is also applied to hamlets, but this can also refer to uninhabited localities.

During the 18th century, it was fashionable for rich or noble people to create their own hameau in their gardens. This was a group of houses or farms with rustic appearance, but in fact very comfortable. The best known are the Hameau de la Reine, built by the queen Marie-Antoinette in the park of the Palace of Versailles, and the Hameau de Chantilly, built by Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé in Chantilly, Oise.

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The German word for hamlet is {{lang|de|Weiler}} ({{IPA|de|ˈva͡ɪlɐ|lang}}). A Weiler has, compared to a Dorf (village), no infrastructure (i.e. no inn, no school, no store, no church). The houses and farms of a Weiler can be grouped (in the hills and the mountains) or scattered (more often in the plains). In North West Germany, a group of scattered farms is called Bauerschaft. In a Weiler, there are no street names, the houses are just numbered.

There is no legal definition of a hamlet in Germany. In Bavaria, like in Austria, a Weiler is defined as a settlement with 3 to 9 dwellings, from 10 houses it is called a village. A hamlet does not usually form its own administrative unit, but is part of a larger municipality.{{cn|date=March 2023}}

In different states of India, there are different words for hamlet. In Haryana and Rajasthan, it is called "dhani" ({{langx|hi|ढाणी}} {{transl|hi|ḍhāṇī}}) or "Thok".Sukhvir Singh Gahlot: Rural Life in Rajasthan, page 4.Rajasthani Granthagar, Giani Press Delhi 1986Ashutosh Goyal, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9380844786 "RBS Visitors Guide India - Rajasthan: Rajasthan Travel guide".], Data & Expo India Pvt Ltd, {{ISBN|9380844786}}.Rann Singh Mann, K. Mann, 1989, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q29TcbHrMfUC "Tribal Cultures and Change".], pp. 23.S. H. M. Rizvi, 1987 [https://books.google.com/books?id=jF9uAAAAMAAJ "Mina, the ruling tribe of Rajasthan: socio-biological appraisal".], pp. 34. In Gujarat, a hamlet is called a "nesada", which are more prevalent in the Gir forest. In Maharashtra, it is called a "pada". In southern Bihar, especially in the Magadh division, a hamlet is called a "bigha". In state of Karnataka, a hamlet is known by different names like Palya, Hadi (Haadi), Keri, and Padi (Paadi). In olden days, the human population of hamlet was less than Halli (Village) or Ooru (Uru). But in the 20th century with tremendous increase in population, some of these hamlets have become villages, towns, cities or merged with them.

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All over Indonesia, hamlets are translated as "small village", {{Lang|id|desa}} or {{lang|id|kampung}}. They are known as {{lang|id|dusun}} in Central Java and East Java, {{lang|id|banjar}} in Bali, {{lang|id|jorong}} or {{lang|id|kampuang}} in West Sumatra.{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}}

The Dutch words for hamlet are {{lang|nl|gehucht}} or {{lang|nl|buurtschap}}. A gehucht or buurtschap has, compared to a dorp (village), no infrastructure (i.e. no inn, no school, no store) and contains often only one street, bearing the same name. The houses and farms of a gehucht or a buurtschap can be scattered. Though there are strong similarities between a gehucht and buurtschap, the words are not interchangeable. A gehucht officially counts as an independent place of residence (e.g. Wateren), while a buurtschap officially is a part of another place (e.g. Bartlehiem, part of Wyns).

In Pakistan, a hamlet is called a gaaon گاؤں or mauza موضع in Urdu, giraaan گراں or pind پنڈ in Punjabi, and kalay کلې in Pashto. It is almost synonymous to 'village'.

In Poland, the law recognises a number of different kinds of rural settlement. Przysiółek (which can be translated as "hamlet") refers to a cluster of farms. Osada (which is typically translated as "settlement" but also can be translated as "hamlet") includes smaller settlements especially differing by type of buildings or inhabited by population connected with some place or workplace (like mill settlements, forest settlements, fishing settlements, railway settlements, former State Agricultural Farm settlements). They can be an independent settlement, or a part of another settlement, like a village.{{Cite web |url=http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20031661612 |title=Ustawa z dnia 29 sierpnia 2003 r. o urzędowych nazwach miejscowości i obiektów fizjograficznych (Dz.U. 2003 nr 166 poz. 1612 |access-date=2018-04-10 |archive-date=2020-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603053105/http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20031661612 |url-status=dead }}

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In Romania, hamlets are called {{lang|ro|cătune}} (singular: {{lang|ro|cătun}}), and they represent villages that contain several houses at most. They are legally considered villages, and statistically, they are placed in the same category. Like villages, they do not have a separate administration, and thus are not an administrative division, but are part of a parent commune.

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In the Russian language, there are several words which mean "a hamlet", but all of them are approximately equivalent. The most common word is деревня (derevnia, the word meant "an arable" in the past); the words село (selo, from the Russian word селиться (selit'tsa), meaning "to settle") and посёлок (posiolok) are quite frequently used, too. Parallel to many other cultures, a distinction was often that selo has a church and derevnia has not.

The once common Russian word хутор (khutor) for the smallest type of rural settlement (arguably closest in nature to the English hamlet) is now mostly obsolete. The state of USSR wanted to have some form of basic infrastructure and central authority at each and every settlement. Obviously, this is the opposite of a hamlet - a place without either for being too small to meaningfully support those. Even without state pressure, once one of the neighboring khutors got a permanent shop, school, community center (known in Russia as дом культуры, "house of culture"), maybe a medical post, others would naturally relocate closer, drawing together into one village.

Thus, the diminutive form деревенька (derevenka, tiny derevnia) is in widespread, albeit unofficial, use to denote such settlements, which mostly possess the amenities of a village yet the size of hamlet.

In Spain, a hamlet is called lugar, aldea or {{lang|es|cortijada}} ({{IPA|es|koɾtiˈxaða|lang}}). The word comes from the Spanish term {{lang|es|cortijo}} («estate»). In the South of Spain, the term {{lang|es|caserío}} ({{IPA|es|kaseˈɾi.o|lang}}) is also used for designating small groups of rural dwellings or farmhouses.

A hamlet in Spain is a human settlement, usually located in rural areas, and typically smaller in size and population than a village (called in Spain, {{lang|es|pueblo}} {{IPA|es|ˈpweβlo|lang}}). The hamlet is a common territorial organisation in the North West of Spain (Asturias, Cantabria and Galicia) dependent on a larger entity (e.g. parish or municipality).

In Spain, the hamlet is one of the categories in the official gazetteer of population entities. In the Royal Order and Instruction of the 8 of March 1930,{{cite web|url=https://classic.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2022704/lod_oai_ciconia_gobex_es_9042_ent1.html|title=Real orden e instrucción de 8 de marzo de 1930 para llevar a efecto la estadística de edificios y albergues de España y sus posesiones|location=Spain|date=8 March 1930|author=España. Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión. Jefatura del Servicio General de Estadística|publisher=Europeana Collections. An initiative of the European Union|access-date=7 November 2020|website=classic.europeana.eu|page=8,9|language=es}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} issued for the elaboration of the Annual gazetteer, the hamlet ({{lang|es|aldea}}) is defined as the population entity with the smallest population and neighbourhood, usually more disseminated than the lugar, though its buildings can be also organised in streets and plazas.

In the four national languages, hamlets are known as {{lang|de|Weiler}} (German), {{lang|fr|hameaux}} (French), {{lang|it|frazioni}} (Italian) and {{lang|rm|fracziun}} (Romansh). A hamlet is always part of a larger municipality or may be shared between two municipalities. The difference between a hamlet and a village is that typically a hamlet lacks a compact core settlement and lacks a central building such as a church or inn. However, some hamlets ({{lang|de|Kirchwiler}}) may have grown up as an unplanned settlement around a church.{{Cite report |author=Projektteam SINUS |title=Landschaftsökologische Strukturmerkmale als Indikatoren der Nachhaltigkeit, Spatial INdices for LandUSe Sustainability (SINUS) |url=http://131.130.59.133/projekte/sinus/pdf/kap10.pdf |publisher=University of Vienna |pages=308–317 |access-date=16 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214213908/http://131.130.59.133/projekte/sinus/pdf/kap10.pdf |archive-date=14 December 2013 }} There is no population limit that defines a hamlet and some hamlets have a larger population than some of the smallest municipalities. Generally there are no street names in a hamlet; rather, addresses are given by hamlet name and a number. House numbers might start at one side of the hamlet and continue to the other side or may have no clear organization.

A hamlet may form or have formed a {{lang|de|Bürgergemeinde}} (legal place of citizenship regardless of where a person was born or currently lives) and may own common property for the {{lang|de|Bürgergemeinde}}.

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In Turkey, a hamlet is known as a {{lang|tr|mezra}} and denotes a small satellite settlement usually consisting of a few houses in the rural outskirts of a village.[https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2006/07/20060731-1.htm // Ordinance on Address and Numbering, Turkish Government Gazette] – {{langx|tr|ADRES VE NUMARALAMAYA İLİŞKİN YÖNETMELİK, Resmî Gazete}}

In Ukraine, a very small village such as a hamlet usually is called a selyshche or {{lang|uk-Latn|khutir}}.[http://sum.in.ua/s/Khutir ХУТІР (Khutir) // Ukrainian Academic Dictionary] – {{langx|uk|Академічний тлумачний словник української мови}} There also existed such places like volia, sloboda, huta, buda, and others.

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In England, the word hamlet (having the French origin given at the top of this article) means (in current usage) simply a small settlement, maybe of a few houses or farms, smaller than a village. However, traditionally and legally, it means a village or a town without a church,{{Cite book|title=Mozley & Whiteley's law dictionary|last=Hardy-Ivamy|first=E.R.|publisher=Butterworths|year=1993|isbn=978-0-406-01420-7|location=London|pages=124}} although hamlets are recognised as part of land use planning policies and administration. Historically, it may refer to a secondary settlement in a civil parish, after the main settlement (if any); such an example is the hamlet of Chipping which is the secondary settlement within the civil parish of Buckland. Hamlets may have been formed around a single source of economic activity such as a farm, mill, mine or harbour that employed its working population. Some hamlets may be the result of the depopulation of a village; examples of such a hamlet are Graby and Shapwick. Because of the hilly topography of the parish, the village of Clent, situated on the Clent Hills, consists of five distinct hamlets.

In Northern Ireland, the common Irish place name element {{lang|ga|baile}} is sometimes considered equivalent to the term hamlet in English, although {{lang|ga|baile}} would actually have referred to what is known in English today as a townland: that is to say, a geographical locality rather than a small village.

In the Scottish Highlands, the term {{lang|gd|clachan}}, of Gaelic derivation, may be preferred to the term hamlet.{{cite web |url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=2540&startset=6123628&query=CLACHAN&fhit=clachan&dregion=form&dtext=snd#fhit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404033415/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=2540&startset=6123628&query=CLACHAN&fhit=clachan&dregion=form&dtext=snd |archive-date=4 April 2012 |title=Clachan |publisher=Dictionary of the Scots Language |access-date=2011-10-24}} Also found in Scotland more generally is {{lang|sco|ferm toun}}, used in the specific case of a farm settlement, including outbuildings and agricultural workers' homes.{{Cite web|url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/ferm_n1_v|title=Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: ferm n1 v}}{{Cite web|url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/toun|title=Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: toun}}

The term hamlet was used in Wales to denote a geographical subdivision of a parish (which might or might not contain a settlement). Elsewhere, mostly in England, these subdivisions were called "townships" or "tithings".Kain R J P, Oliver R D, Historic Parishes of England & Wales, HDS, 2001, {{ISBN|0-9540032-0-9}}, p 12{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/status_page.jsp?unit_status=Hmlt |title=Status definition: Hamlet |work=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=Great Britain Historical GIS Project |access-date=2007-08-31}} The Welsh word for "hamlet" is {{lang|cy|pentrefan}}{{Cite web|url=https://glosbe.com/cy/en/pentrefan|title = Pentrefan in English - Welsh-English Dictionary | Glosbe}} (also {{lang|cy|pentrefyn}}). Both these words are diminutives of pentref ("village") with the loose meaning of "small village".

In Mississippi, a 2009 state law (§ 17-27-5) set aside the term "municipal historical hamlet" to designate any former city, town, or village with a current population of less than 600 inhabitants that lost its charter before 1945. The first such designation was applied to Bogue Chitto, Lincoln County.

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In New York, hamlets are unincorporated settlements within towns. Hamlets are not legal entities and have no local government or official boundaries. Their approximate locations will often be noted on road signs, however, a specific service, such as water, sewer, or lighting to provide only that hamlet with services. A hamlet could be described as the rural or suburban equivalent of a neighborhood in a city or village. The area of a hamlet may not be exactly defined; it may be designated by the Census Bureau, or it may rely on some other form of border (such as a ZIP Code, school district or fire district for more urbanized areas; rural hamlets are typically only demarcated by speed zones on the roads serving them). Others, such as Forestville, New York, will be the remnants of former villages, with borders coextant with the previously defined borders of the defunct or dissolved village. Some hamlets proximate to urban areas are sometimes continuous with their cities and appear to be neighborhoods, but they still are under the jurisdiction of the town. Some localities designated as hamlets, such as Levittown in the Town of Hempstead, with a population of over 50,000, are more populous than some incorporated cities in the state.

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In Oregon, specifically in Clackamas County, a hamlet is a form of local government for small communities that allows the citizens therein to organize and co-ordinate community activities. Hamlets do not provide services, such as utilities or fire protection, and do not have the authority to levy taxes or fees. There are four hamlets in Oregon: Beavercreek, Mulino, Molalla Prairie, and Stafford.

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In Vietnam, a hamlet ({{lang|vi|xóm}}, {{lang|vi|ấp}}) is the smallest unofficial administrative unit. It is a subdivision of a commune or township ({{lang|vi|xã}}).

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060627091742/http://www.bigfarm.co.uk/wolfhampcote.htm Wolfhampcote: A hamlet formed by depopulation]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060320053106/http://www.addingham.info/village/lowmill.htm Low Mill: A mill hamlet]

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