Erving's Location, New Hampshire
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Erving's Location is a township in Coos County, New Hampshire, USA. In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
According to the 2000 census, one person lived in Erving's Location. However, in a recent "Sunday News" New Hampshire newspaper edition (printed on June 27, 2004), Suzan Collins, the Coos County administrator, said the following about Erving's Location: "We're required to do an inventory of property lists and there isn't anyone who is a registered resident. I don't know how the census picks this up." She also said that the only taxable property in Erving's Location are telephone poles. Some have speculated that the census statistics for Erving's Location could have been a computer glitch.
There is a dirt road that starts at New Hampshire State Route 26 in Millsfield just north of a pond and ends to the west in Erving's Location's northeast corner. It is the only way to get to Erving's Location without hiking.
[edit] Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the location has a total area of 9.5 km² (3.7 mi²). None of the area is covered by water. The location's highest point is 2,840 feet (866 meters) above sea level, along its eastern boundary, partway up the slope of Mount Kelsey, the summit of which is located in Millsfield.
[edit] Demographics
As of the census of 2000, one person lives in Erving's Location. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town is one of only four places in the United States to have a population of 1. The others are Hibberts Gore, Maine; Lost Springs, Wyoming; and New Amsterdam, Indiana.
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See also: List of places with fewer than ten people
Communities in Coos County, New Hampshire | |
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Atkinson & Gilmanton Academy Grant | Bean's Grant | Bean's Purchase | Berlin | Cambridge | Carroll | Chandler's Purchase | Clarksville | Colebrook | Columbia | Crawford's Purchase | Cutt's Grant | Dalton | Dix's Grant | Dixville | Dummer | Errol | Erving's Location | Gorham | Green's Grant | Groveton | Hadley's Purchase | Jefferson | Kilkenny | Lancaster | Low and Burbank's Grant | Martin's Location | Milan | Millsfield | Northumberland | Odell | Pinkham's Grant | Pittsburg | Randolph | Sargent's Purchase | Second College Grant | Shelburne | Stark | Stewartstown | Stratford | Success | Thompson and Meserve's Purchase | Wentworth's Location | Whitefield |