Louise, West Virginia | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 40°18′14″N80°33′55″W / 40.30389°N 80.56528°W Coordinates: 40°18′14″N80°33′55″W / 40.30389°N 80.56528°W | |
Country | United States |
State | West Virginia |
County | Brooke |
Elevation | 725 ft (221 m) |
Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
GNIS ID | 1555000 [1] |
Louise is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
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