Talk:List of census-designated places in Michigan

Walloon Lake, Michigan
Walloon Lake, Michigan
Census-designated place (CDP) & unincorporated community

Infobox label

In the past and more recently when updating infobox information, I (and some others before me) have listed the 159 census-designated places also as an "unincorporated community" in the settlement_type line in the infobox. CDPs have no municipal autonomy, no legal status, and are not a defined settlement type. They are administered by their township(s) and have no individual governments, elected officials, municipal services, etc. They are constructed for statistical purposes only by the Census Bureau, and for that reason, they are inherently unincorporated areas, which we refer to as unincorporated communities in Michigan. As of now, every CDP is listed as Census-designated place (CDP) & unincorporated community within the settlement_type in each infobox. Most CDP articles even mention both designations within the first few sentences of the article. Obviously, not all unincorporated communities are CDPs, but all CDPs are unincorporated communities. Omitting the unincorporated community designation from the infobox and leaving only the CDP listing would infer that CDPs have legal standing and have more value than mere statistical purposes. —Notorious4life (talk) 08:13, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article expansion

I expanded the contents of the article, using a slightly modified version of the table used in the List of municipalities in Michigan, as well as tidbits of information to better explain the concept of a CDP. Some CDP articles do not contain updated information to reflect the 2010 census. I originally planned to include the GNIS number for each CDP as a personal reference for each listing, but I constantly get the "The specified URL cannot be found" when I try to link or navigate the U.S. Board on Geographic Names website (and I also could not locate the GNIS number for Bay View). I also thought about adding the coordinates to include a map of all the CDPs, but it seemed to overload the table. All of the census data came from the Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts document, and the table can be modified further once 2020 census information is available. —Notorious4life (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New CDPs for the 2020 census

While the results of the 2020 United States census have not been officially published, it appears that there are numerous new CDPs listed for the first time. When new CDPs are confirmed with their new statistics, this article will have to be expanded. Also, each CDP will have to have their article's expanded (or recreated from redirects). According to this link, these are the newly listed CDPs. The bold links belong to those that do not have their own independent article. As of July 2024, there are six CDPs that don't have their own articles.

—Notorious4life (talk) 21:48, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The 2020 census information has been updated into the article. —Notorious4life (talk) 04:16, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]