Hamlets and Places

Point locations for hamlets and other unincorporated places. Unlike incorporated municipalities (Towns, Cities, Villages), Hamlets do not have officially designated boundaries. Hamlets are small human settlements, usually smaller than a village. They may be historic in nature, where an incorporated village has been dissolved, or new, as in a subdivision containing a cluster of homes and possibly some commercial or local government uses. The dataset began as an extract from the NYS Places point file. It has been modified with additional fields that record the type and source of each feature, the incorporated municipality(s) it lies within, and the date of any modification.