Talk:Gore (surveying)

A fact from Gore (surveying) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 December 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores, which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/December.

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Didn't you know?

Articles on Wikipedia should have references. I thought something this basic would be a requirement for DYK inclusion. Those external links don't provide any info on what a gore is. House of Scandal 11:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unclaimed in Texas

Similar surveying errors occurred in Texas, where three separate survey systems were used. There, it's regarded as unclaimed land, up for grabs. There was quite a tidy sum made a few decades back when an individual located (and claimed) an inch-wide strip of land running through part of downtown Dallas, which was then sold to the businesses located on "his" property. --EncycloPetey 01:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Government

Beach Conger, M.D. (possibly pseudonymous), writes in Bag Balm and Duct Tape (copyright 1988, a Fawcett Crest Book published by Ballantine Books, New York), on page 11, "We went to the library and looked through back issues of Vermont Life until we fund an article by a New York City stockbroker who had moved to Buel's Gore, where he made his living off the land. The article said that a gore was an unincorporated area that was governed by an overseer." The only two inhabited gores in New Hampshire on the list have populations of 10 and 12. I would like to know how the overseers are put into office. I also wonder whether the uninhabited gores have overseers to, for example, prevent massive clear-cutting by unauthorized loggers. J S Ayer (talk) 01:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article is no longer about the surveyor's gore

Now it's about "A gore (or, sometimes, a grant), in parts of the northeastern United States (mainly northern New England), is an unincorporated area of a county that is not part of any town and has limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited)" -- with lists of towns that have 'gore' in the name. See Gore_(road) for an article that is more relevant to what a surveyor means by 'gore'. 24.27.31.170 (talk) 22:04, 14 August 2011 (UTC) Eric[reply]