` ::::My point with the other communities was specifically to answer your objections above: to say that those places should be called what they were, not to say that they were CDPs.  As far as legal designations: they don't change much.  When you get to local government, changing is very inconvenient; imagine if (assuming you're in the mainland USA) your state decided to declare that all municipalities were suddenly ``burgs``; even if the way they functioned was no different, the paperwork would be immense.  Because local government is a creature of the state, a state cannot be incorrect when it declares that a specific government is a specific type; therefore, anything in conflict with the designation (including the Census Bureau; see Harrogate vs. Harrogate-Shawanee, Tennessee) isn't reliable for that purpose.    `