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Columbia, Maryland
Columbia, Maryland is a planned community in Howard County founded by James Rouse, opened with Wilde Lake in 1967, organized as ten villages around a Town Center, population 104,681 in 2020.
Congress, Arizona
Congress, Arizona, is a community and former gold-mining camp in Yavapai County, built around the Congress Mine, which produced about 500,000 ounces of gold through 1992.
Conques
Conques, Aveyron village in southern France around the Romanesque Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy; relics transferred from Agen c. 866 made it a major Compostela pilgrimage halt; UNESCO-listed since 1998.
Cooperstown, New York
Cooperstown, New York: Otsego County county-seat village of about 1,853 at Otsego Lake, founded by William Cooper, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame (opened 1939) and Bassett Healthcare.
Copper Harbor, Michigan
Copper Harbor, Michigan: tiny community (136 residents, 2020) at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula on Lake Superior, end of US-41, known for IMBA Silver Level mountain bike trails, the Isle Royale Queen IV ferry, and Fort Wilkins.
Corolla, North Carolina
Corolla, North Carolina: unincorporated northern Outer Banks resort community in Currituck County on NC 12, known for the Whalehead Club, Currituck Beach Lighthouse, wild Spanish mustangs, 4WD Carova beaches, and about 800 year-round residents swelling to 50,000 weekly in season.
Cotterstock
Cotterstock is a Northamptonshire village near Oundle, recorded in Domesday (1087) as Codestoche, home to one of Britain's largest Roman villas with mosaics found in 1736 and surveyed after 1976 parch marks.
Crossmaglen
Crossmaglen (Crois Mhic Lionnáin) is a border village in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland, known as the heart of republican "bandit country" during the Troubles and for Crossmaglen Rangers GAC, a dominant Gaelic football club.
Cuckfield
Cuckfield, West Sussex, is a village in Mid Sussex, England, on the Weald's southern slopes; it was a medieval market town and coaching stop on the London to Brighton road.
Cucuron
Cucuron is a village in the Vaucluse department of Provence, southern France, at the southern foot of the Luberon, known for a Gallo-Roman mausoleum excavated in 1970.
Customary villages of Melanesia
Customary villages of Melanesia are settlements anchored in clan-based land ownership under customary law, with at least 97% of Papua New Guinea's land held this way.
Cypress, Texas
Cypress, Texas: unincorporated suburban region of northwestern Harris County on U.S. 290 northwest of Houston, settled by Germans in the 1840s, served by Cy-Fair ISD, population over 200,000.
Dambach
Dambach: an Alsatian commune in Bas-Rhin with the castles Schoeneck, Wineck, and Hohenfels and 14th-century walls, and a Bavarian village with a Roman Raetian Limes fort destroyed in 254 AD.
Darenth
Darenth, a village in Dartford, Kent, on the River Darent, site of one of Britain's largest Roman villas (2.6 ha, list entry 1012965), an Anglo-Saxon settlement, and Mesolithic to Iron Age occupation.
Deanshanger
Deanshanger is a village in south Northamptonshire, northwest of Milton Keynes, site of a Roman villa found in 1957 at Kingsbrook School and excavated in 1957, 1972, and 2004-2006, with 1st- to 4th-century occupation, a Buckingham Arm canal, and the Roberts ironworks.
Dębczyno
Dębczyno (German: Denzin) is a village in Białogard county, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, and the type site of the Dębczyno group, an archaeological culture of the late Roman period and Migration Period.
Debir Char
Debir Char (Bengali: Debir Char) is an island and a populated place in Barisal Division, Bangladesh, near Badurpur and Titia in Bhola District; a namesake settlement exists in Khulna Division.
Dededo
Dededo (Dedidu in CHamoru) is a village of about 30 square miles in northwestern Guam, home to roughly a third of the island's population and anchored by Micronesia Mall.
Deepdale
Deepdale is an area of Preston, Lancashire, home to Deepdale Stadium, Preston North End's ground since 1875, redeveloped to 24,000 seats by 2008; also a Preston conservation area and a Derbyshire dale.
Deleni
Deleni: name of several Romanian villages with recorded archaeological sites, including a Roman-era stone quarry and tumuli in Constanța County, a La Tène settlement in Vaslui, and Bronze Age and Hallstatt finds in Sălaj and Mureș counties.
Depopulated villages in Japan
Depopulated villages in Japan are rural settlements emptied by demographic decline, dam construction, or mine closure, including genkai shūraku approaching extinction; about 2,922 defunct villages have been identified nationwide.
Depopulated villages of Cyprus
The depopulated villages of Cyprus are settlements emptied by intercommunal violence in 1963–64 and the 1974 war, displacing about 205,000 people, most of whom never returned.
Deserted medieval village
Deserted medieval village (DMV): remains of an abandoned nucleated rural settlement, over 2,000 known in England. Mainly deserted in the 14th-15th centuries through enclosure and sheep farming, not the Black Death; type site Wharram Percy.
Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion
Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach), Ceredigion: Welsh village with three stacked bridges over the Mynach (1753 and 1901 upper spans), 91 m waterfalls, and the 1902 Vale of Rheidol Railway terminus.
Dhanushkodi (தனுஷ்கோடி)
Dhanushkodi (தனுஷ்கோடி), the Ghost Town of India, is an abandoned town at the south-eastern tip of Rameswaram Island, Tamil Nadu, destroyed by the December 1964 cyclone, declared uninhabitable, and now a ruins-and-beach tourist site near Arichal Munai.
Dhaun (village)
Dhaun (धौं) is the name of two small villages in Champawat district, Uttarakhand, India: one in Champawat tehsil (census code 053869, 364 people) and one in Lohaghat tehsil (code 054347, 17 people), both recorded in Census 2011.
Digri
Digri (ڈگری; ڊگهڙي) is a town and tehsil in Mirpur Khas District, Sindh, Pakistan, the district's second largest town; 2023 census: 234,578 tehsil and 41,774 town residents, with Digri Sugar Mills as its main industry.
Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
Dildo is a small town on Dildo Arm, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, about an hour from St. John's. Known for its debated name (first recorded 1711 as Dildoe Island), Dildo Island archaeology, Captain Dildo festival, and Dildo Brewing Co.
Diomede, Alaska
Diomede (Inalik) is an Iñupiat city of about 115 people on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, 2.5 miles from Russian Big Diomede across the International Date Line, 21 hours behind it, reachable mainly by helicopter and living by subsistence hunting.
Dispersed settlement
Dispersed settlement: a rural settlement pattern of widely scattered farmsteads and houses, the opposite of nucleated villages; common in the United States, uplands, and enclosed landscapes.