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7-671: Barrios (which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions ) in turn are further subdivided into smaller local populated place areas/units called sectores ( sectors in English). The types of sectores may vary, from normally sector to urbanización to reparto to barriada to residencial , among others. The following sectors are in Bermejales barrio: Sector Buena Vista, Sector El Aguacate, Sector El Collao, Sector El Cometa, Sector El Mirador, Sector La Cuchilla , and Sector Tino Torres . Bermejales

14-580: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Minor civil divisions A minor civil division (MCD) is a term used by the United States Census Bureau for primary governmental and/or administrative divisions of a county or county-equivalent , typically a municipal government such as a city, town, or civil township . MCDs are used for statistical purposes by the Census Bureau, and do not necessarily represent

21-432: Is not covered by a state-defined MCD, the Census Bureau creates additional entities as unorganized territories , that it treats as equivalent to MCDs for statistical purposes. Because MCDs are used to divide up counties, when a MCD-level municipality or unallocated territory or water spans county boundaries, that entity's boundaries are used to create multiple MCDs, one for each county. For water areas unallocated to any MCD,

28-611: The District of Columbia , and Puerto Rico. In all other states where state-defined entities are not used for census purposes (mostly in the South and the West), the Census Bureau designates Census County Divisions (CCDs). For several decennial censuses prior to the 2010 census , 28 states used MCDs, but in 2008, Tennessee changed from CCDs to MCDs, bringing the total number of MCD states to 29. In states that use MCDs, when any land or water

35-563: The Census Bureau assigns a default FIPS county subdivision code of 00000 and an ANSI code of eight zeroes. This typically happens when state and county boundaries extend into the ocean or Great Lakes , but MCDs are not defined by the state for the unoccupied water. (For the ocean boundary of state vs. federal responsibility, see Tidelands .) The United States also performs a census for the Republic of Palau , which has an agreement of free association . The U.S. Census considers all of Palau

42-515: The primary form of local government. They range from non-governing geographical survey areas to municipalities with weak or strong powers of self-government. Some states with large unincorporated areas give substantial powers to counties; others have smaller or larger incorporated entities with governmental powers that are smaller than the MCD level chosen by the Census. As of 2010, MCDs exist in 29 states,

49-728: Was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States . In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Bermejales barrio was 1,317. This Orocovis, Puerto Rico location article

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