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The Hamptons
The Hamptons: group of towns, villages, and hamlets on eastern Long Island's South Fork, New York; not an official municipality. Founded from 1640 (Southampton), former whaling region turned wealthy summer resort about 80 miles east of NYC.
The Village, Sark
The Village, Sark is the main settlement of the car-free Channel Island of Sark, consisting of one shopping lane, the Avenue, on higher ground above Maseline Harbour.
The Villages, Florida
The Villages, Florida: a 55+ master-planned retirement community in central Florida spanning Lake, Sumter, and Marion counties; 79,077 residents (2020), governed by Community Development Districts, known for golf carts and extensive amenities.
The Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands is a master-planned community about 30 miles north of Houston, founded by oilman George P. Mitchell in 1974 and now home to about 120,000 residents.
Thenford
Thenford is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, near Brackley and Banbury, with a Grade I listed 1760s Thenford House, a 70-acre arboretum, a scheduled Roman villa excavated 1971-73, and a Domesday entry of 1086.
Thurgarton
Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire village and parish near Southwell; Grimston-hybrid name from the Dane Thorrgeir; Wood Meadow Roman villa (c. 240-380 AD) excavated from 1951; Augustinian priory founded c1130, dissolved 1538.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Thurmond is a nearly depopulated former railroad town in Fayette County, West Virginia, a historic district within New River Gorge National Park with about five residents.
Times Beach, Missouri
Times Beach, Missouri: former St. Louis-area town, also called Route 66 State Park site, evacuated after dioxin (TCDD) contamination from waste oil sprayed on roads; bought out 1983, incinerated, delisted 2001.
Tintange
Tintange is a hilltop village in Fauvillers, Belgian Luxembourg, on the Sûre, Syrbach, and Molscht valleys, with a 1785 church ensemble and GR trails; the name also denotes a Roman road station (BAtlas 11 F3).
Tišice
Tišice (Mělník District, Central Bohemia) is an archaeological site on the Elbe with a La Tène cemetery of 23 graves, an Early Roman Großromstedt-culture burial ground tied to Mlékojedy, and early medieval burials and hillfort remains. Not to be confused with Tismice.
Tisvilde
Tisvilde, also Tisvildeleje, is a coastal town and summer resort on north Zealand, Denmark, in Gribskov Municipality, known for its sandy Blue Flag beach, Tisvilde Hegn forest, the 1924 Tisvildebanen railway, and the Tisvildehuset community-house project.
Tixover
Tixover, Rutland village and parish on the River Welland, two miles southwest of Ketton; Domesday part of Ketton manor; Roman villa with mosaics at Tixover Grange excavated 1958-9; Tixover Roman road to Great Casterton.
Tobermory, Mull
Tobermory (Tobar Mhoire), main town and capital of the Isle of Mull, Scotland; a planned fishing settlement founded 1788 by the British Fisheries Society, known for its colourful harbourfront, distillery, and Kilchoan ferry.
Tomakovka
Tomakovka (Ukrainian Tomakivka, Томаківка) is a rural settlement in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, at the confluence of the Tomakivka and Kyslichuvata rivers; also a Pleiades-recorded ancient tumulus site, the Tomakovka Miocene Beds, and a meteorite.
Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone, Arizona: silver-mining boomtown founded 1879 in Cochise County, site of the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight; produced about $39 million in ore before mines flooded by 1890.
Tong Fuk (塘福)
Tong Fuk (塘福) is a coastal village on South Lantau, Hong Kong, recorded in the 1595 Yue Daji and 1819 Xin'an Gazetteer, with Bronze Age archaeology, a 1802 Hung Shing Temple, and New Lantao Bus routes 1, 2, 4, 11, 11A, 23 and N35.
Tong, Lewis
Tong (Tunga) is a crofting township on the Isle of Lewis, parish of Stornoway, near the Sands of Tong. Known for its 1808 former parish manse (listed 2007) and the 1919 land raid on Tong Farm under Lord Leverhulme.
Tonopah, Nevada
Tonopah is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Nye County, central Nevada, and the county seat, grown from a silver strike in 1900 into one of the richest mining camps of the American West.
Topanga, California
Topanga is an unincorporated census-designated place in the Santa Monica Mountains of western Los Angeles County, California, with 8,560 residents in 2020, a Tongva and Chumash-derived name, and Topanga Canyon Boulevard as its main route.
Town–community name pairs in Wisconsin
Town–community name pairs in Wisconsin are populated places that gazetteers classify inconsistently, as unincorporated communities, historic entries, post-office names, or "orphans" that could be a community, post office, or railroad siding.
Transmigration program
The transmigration program, known in Indonesian as Transmigrasi, is an Indonesian government program moving people, usually voluntarily, from crowded islands such as Java to less populated regions, begun under Dutch rule in 1905.
Třebusice
Třebusice (Kladno District, Central Bohemia): village with the largest Suevi (Polabian German) Roman-period cremation necropolis, 960 graves, excavated 1921–1963, published 2023–2024 by Droberjar and Motyková.
Treignes
Treignes, a village in Viroinval, Namur province, Belgium, is known for the Gallo-Roman villa "les Bruyères" (1st–4th century, excavated 1980–2000) and the Musée du Malgré-Tout archaeology museum.
Tsurai
Tsurai (Chue-rey) was a Yurok village on the north shore of Trinidad Bay, Humboldt County, California, first described by Bodega and Heceta in 1775, occupied until 1916, and designated California Historical Landmark No. 838.
Tuktoyaktuk
Tuktoyukt (Inuvialuktun: Tuktuuyaqtuuq), an Inuvialuit hamlet in the Northwest Territories, is situated on the Arctic Ocean shore and faces some of the fastest coastal erosion in Canada.
Tunduma
Tunduma, a border town in Songwe Region, Tanzania, on the Zambia border at Nakonde; OSBP launched 2019; TAZARA railway and Tanzam Highway junction; major maize trade and transit hub.
Turtuk
Turtuk is a Balti village in Nubra Valley, Ladakh, about 8 km from the Line of Control on the Shyok River at 2,900 m. Captured by India on 17 December 1971 and opened to tourism in 2010, it is India's only Balti-populated village.
Twyford
Twyford, an English placename meaning 'double ford' from Old English, borne by villages in Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and West Twyford, London; the Hampshire village hosts the scheduled Twyford Roman villa, occupied from the late 1st to the 5th century.
Tyneham
Tyneham is Dorset's evacuated 'lost village', requisitioned by the War Office in November 1943 with about 7,500 acres for D-Day training; residents left 19 December 1943 and never returned. It lies in the Lulworth Ranges and opens to visitors on non-firing days.
Ubstadt
Ubstadt, village in Kraichgau, Baden-Württemberg, now part of Ubstadt-Weiher; first recorded 769 as Hubestat in the Lorsch Codex; Speyer rule to 1802, then Baden; also a Pleiades Roman road station.