Petty, Texas

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Petty is an unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas, United States. [1]

Unincorporated area Region of land not governed by own local government

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.

Lamar County, Texas County in the United States

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Texas State of the United States of America

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The community has the name of a pioneer citizen. [2]

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Chisum Independent School District, or CISD, is a public school district based in the southern portion of Paris, Texas. The district was created in 1985 by the consolidation of the Delmar and West Lamar School Districts and adopted its present name in 1986.

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Petty, Texas
  2. ↑ Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 102.

Coordinates: 33°36′09″N95°48′36″W / 33.60260°N 95.80996°W / 33.60260; -95.80996

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