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A census-designated place ( CDP ) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

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39-773: South Deerfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in Deerfield , Franklin County, Massachusetts , United States. It is home to the Yankee Candle Company . At the 2010 census, the population of South Deerfield was 1,880. South Deerfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area . The area was once home to the Pocumtuck tribe, who were driven away by settlers relocated in 1673 from Dedham . In retaliation, on September 18, 1675,

78-424: A CDP name "be one that is recognized and used in daily communication by the residents of the community" (not "a name developed solely for planning or other purposes") and recommend that a CDP's boundaries be mapped based on the geographic extent associated with inhabitants' regular use of the named place. There is no provision, however, that this name recognition be unanimous for all residents, or that all residents use

117-511: A Catholic minister to receive, under certain conditions, the sacraments of Reconciliation , Eucharist , and Anointing of the Sick from "non-Catholic ministers, ministers in whose churches these sacraments are valid". This canon declares it licit for Catholic priests to administer the same three sacraments to members of churches which the Holy See judges to be in the same condition in regard to

156-658: A deed provision to ensure that the property not be put to any use inconsistent with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Additionally, in order to address a perceived lack of influence in church governance, in 1929 a breakaway group from St. Stanislaus founded Holy Name of Jesus church, affiliated with the Polish National Catholic Church . A parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Descent of

195-461: A population of at least 10,000. For the 1970 Census , the population threshold for "unincorporated places" in urbanized areas was reduced to 5,000. For the 1980 Census , the designation was changed to "census designated places" and the designation was made available for places inside urbanized areas in New England. For the 1990 Census , the population threshold for CDPs in urbanized areas

234-720: Is an independent Old Catholic church based in the United States and founded by Polish-Americans . The PNCC is not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church . Since 2004, the PNCC is no longer in communion with the Union of Utrecht . The organisation is now part of the Union of Scranton . The church has around 30,000 members in five dioceses in the United States and Canada with 119 congregations in

273-537: Is located at 42°28′37″N 72°36′02″W  /  42.476925°N 72.600610°W  / 42.476925; -72.600610 . According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 8.4 km (3.3 mi), of which 8.1 km (3.1 mi) is land and 0.3 km (0.1 mi) (3.37%) is water. South Deerfield is drained by the Deerfield and Connecticut rivers. As of

312-816: Is that the Catholic Church recognizes the validity of the sacraments of the PNCC, and allows members of the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic Churches in particular exceptional circumstances, defined in canon 844 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church and the parallel canon 671 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches , that are regulated by the diocesan bishop or conference of bishops, to receive three sacraments from PNCC ministers . Canon 844 allows those Catholics who can avoid error and indifferentism and are unable to approach

351-600: Is the sacrament which makes a Christian man and woman husband and wife, gives them grace to be faithful to each other and to bring up their children in love and devotion to God." Unlike in the Roman Catholic Church , PNCC deacons are not permitted to officiate at weddings. The PNCC permits divorced people to participate fully in the Mass and to receive the Eucharist. The church does not recognize civil divorce and requires an annulment before parishioners can remarry. Since 1921,

390-654: The 1890 Census , in which the Census mixed unincorporated places with incorporated places in its products with "town" or "village" as its label. This made it confusing to determine which of the "towns" were or were not incorporated. The 1900 through 1930 Censuses did not report data for unincorporated places. For the 1940 Census , the Census Bureau compiled a separate report of unofficial, unincorporated communities of 500 or more people. The Census Bureau officially defined this category as "unincorporated places" in

429-461: The 1950 Census and used that term through the 1970 Census. For the 1950 Census, these types of places were identified only outside " urbanized areas ". In 1960 , the Census Bureau also identified unincorporated places inside urbanized areas (except in New England , whose political geography is based on the New England town , and is distinctly different from other areas of the U.S.), but with

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468-656: The Indians attacked and killed Captain Thomas Lathrop and a small force in the Battle of Bloody Brook before being routed by reinforcements. Thereafter called Bloody Brook or Muddy Brook, South Deerfield in 1809 attempted to be set off from Deerfield in part because of the distance to its meetinghouse and in part because of religious differences with its minister, the Reverend Samuel Willard. The grant

507-464: The CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, edge cities , colonias located along the Mexico–United States border , and unincorporated resort and retirement communities and their environs. The boundaries of any CDP may change from decade to decade, and

546-513: The Census Bureau considers some towns in New England states, New Jersey and New York as well as townships in some other states as MCDs, even though they are incorporated municipalities in those states. In such states, CDPs may be defined within such towns or spanning the boundaries of multiple towns. There are a number of reasons for the CDP designation: Polish National Catholic Church The Polish National Catholic Church ( PNCC ; Polish : Polski Narodowy Kościół Katolicki , PNKK )

585-422: The Census Bureau may de-establish a CDP after a period of study, then re-establish it some decades later. Most unincorporated areas within the United States are not and have not been included in any CDP. The boundaries of a CDP have no legal status and may not always correspond with the local understanding of the area or community with the same name. However, criteria established for the 2010 census require that

624-747: The Holy Spirit (formerly Descent of the Holy Ghost) was founded in 1920 as part of the Ukrainian Catholic Diocese of Stamford, and is active to the present day. Census-designated place CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places , such as self-governing cities , towns , and villages , for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated community, for which

663-764: The International Old Catholic Bishops' Conference expelled the PNCC from the Utrecht Union, determining that " full communion , as determined in the statute of the IBC, could not be restored and that therefore, as a consequence, the separation of our Churches follows". Dialogue with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops , with the approval of the Holy See , led in 1996 to an arrangement that Laurence J. Orzell has called "limited inter-communion". What this means

702-824: The PNCC General Synod holds the authority to remove bishops, the Prime Bishop purported to remove the bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church of Canada in January 2013. The PNCC is a member of the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches . In the 1970s the PNCC's relationship with the Utrecht Union grew strained as there was a gradual shift towards what was regarded as liberalism in

741-412: The PNCC has permitted bishops and priests to marry. The PNCC is governed in accordance with its Constitution and Laws. The chief legislative body is a general synod, which normally convenes every four years. The composition of the PNCC General Synod includes clergy and laity. Each parish is entitled to send one lay delegate for each 50 active members. While its constitution and canon laws provide that

780-532: The Polish National Catholic Church. In 2010, Anthony Mikovsky was elected by the twenty-third general synod to be the seventh prime bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church. Bishop Mikovsky has been bishop of the Central Diocese and pastor of St. Stanislaus Cathedral since 2006. Before becoming a bishop, he served as the assistant pastor at St. Stanislaus, the mother church of the denomination, beginning in 1997. The church believes that " Marriage

819-622: The U.S. Catholic Church in 1897, when Polish immigrants founded an independent Polish body, headquartered in Scranton, with initially some 20,000 members. Fr. Hodur was consecrated as a bishop in 1907 in Utrecht , Netherlands , by three Old Catholic bishops. The PNCC considers him to be the founder and first bishop of the denomination. The church began missionary work in Poland after the country regained independence following World War I . By

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858-572: The US. The church is part of Polish Old Catholicism . During the late 19th century, many Polish immigrants to the U.S. became dismayed with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church . The U.S. church had no Polish bishops and few Polish priests, and would not allow the Polish language to be taught in parish schools. The mainly ethnic Irish and German bishops helped establish hundreds of parishes for Poles, but priests were usually unable to speak Polish, and

897-402: The average family size was 2.84. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 18.9% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 27.1% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.3 males. The median income for a household in the CDP

936-454: The beginning of World War II , the PNCC had founded more than 50 parishes along with a theological seminary in Kraków . During post-war Communist rule of Poland, the church suffered severe persecution. The Polish Catholic Church is now an autocephalous body in communion with the PNCC. In 2002, Robert M. Nemkovich was elected by the twenty-first general synod to be the sixth prime bishop of

975-484: The boundaries for CDPs. The PSAP was to be offered to county and municipal planning agencies during 2008. The boundaries of such places may be defined in cooperation with local or tribal officials, but are not fixed, and do not affect the status of local government or incorporation; the territories thus defined are strictly statistical entities. CDP boundaries may change from one census to the next to reflect changes in settlement patterns. Further, as statistical entities,

1014-419: The boundaries of the CDP may not correspond with local understanding of the area with the same name. Recognized communities may be divided into two or more CDPs while on the other hand, two or more communities may be combined into one CDP. A CDP may also cover the unincorporated part of a named community, where the rest lies within an incorporated place. By defining an area as a CDP, that locality then appears in

1053-447: The census of 2000, there were 1,868 people, 821 households, and 490 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 229.7/km (594.3/mi). There were 869 housing units at an average density of 106.9/km (276.5/mi). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.68% White , 0.80% African American , 0.16% Native American , 0.43% Asian , 0.86% from other races , and 1.07% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.25% of

1092-588: The community for which the CDP is named for services provided therein. There is no mandatory correlation between CDP names or boundaries and those established for other human purposes, such as post office names or zones, political precincts, or school districts. The Census Bureau states that census-designated places are not considered incorporated places and that it includes only census-designated places in its city population list for Hawaii because that state has no incorporated cities. In addition, census city lists from 2007 included Arlington County, Virginia 's CDP in

1131-556: The list with the incorporated places, but since 2010, only the Urban Honolulu CDP, Hawaii, representing the historic core of Honolulu, Hawaii , is shown in the city and town estimates. The Census Bureau reported data for some unincorporated places as early as the first census in 1790 (for example, Louisville, Kentucky , which was not legally incorporated in Kentucky until 1828), though usage continued to develop through

1170-467: The meantime came to believe that these conditions were a manifestation of "political and social exploitation of the Polish people". A leader in this struggle was Fr. Franciszek Hodur (1866–1953), a Polish immigrant to the United States and a Catholic priest. Born near Kraków , he emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and was ordained that year; in 1897, he became pastor of St. Stanislaus Cathedral in Scranton. Continued discontent led to an open rupture with

1209-460: The new immigrants had poor or limited English. There were also disputes over who owned church property, particularly in Buffalo, New York , and Scranton, Pennsylvania , with the parishioners demanding greater control. Although the majority of Polish-Americans remained with the Roman Catholic Church, where bilingual Polish-American priests and bishops were eventually ordained, many Polish-Americans in

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1248-406: The population. There were 821 households, out of which 22.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.3% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and

1287-455: The rest of Utrecht Union churches while the PNCC was becoming more conservative. The PNCC in the United States and Canada entered into a state of "impaired communion" with the Utrecht Union in 1997, since the PNCC did not accept the validity of ordaining women to the priesthood , which most other Utrecht Union churches had been doing for several years. The PNCC continued to refuse full communion with those churches that ordained women; thus, in 2003

1326-505: The sacraments as the Eastern churches, if they ask for the sacraments of their own accord and are properly disposed. Obstacles to full communion include different understandings about papal primacy , the level of involvement of the laity in church governance, and the PNCC reception of some former Roman Catholic clergy, most of whom subsequently married. The PNCC has been also in ecumenical dialogue since 2018 with numerous jurisdictions from

1365-457: The same category of census data as incorporated places. This distinguishes CDPs from other census classifications, such as minor civil divisions (MCDs), which are in a separate category. The population and demographics of the CDP are included in the data of county subdivisions containing the CDP. Generally, a CDP shall not be defined within the boundaries of what the Census Bureau regards to be an incorporated city, village or borough. However,

1404-412: Was $ 43,984, and the median income for a family was $ 65,298. Males had a median income of $ 37,898 versus $ 33,661 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 24,144. About 1.3% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including none of those under age 18 and 4.0% of those age 65 or over. South Deerfield is home to a single unified Roman Catholic parish. Until 2008, it

1443-481: Was reduced to 2,500. From 1950 through 1990, the Census Bureau specified other population requirements for unincorporated places or CDPs in Alaska , Puerto Rico , island areas, and Native American reservations . Minimum population criteria for CDPs were dropped with the 2000 Census . The Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) allows designated participants to review and suggest modifications to

1482-720: Was refused, and the village remained part of Deerfield, but South Deerfield nevertheless dedicated its own meetinghouse in 1821. Situated beside the Connecticut River , it developed as a small farming community. There are a variety of retail and service establishments in South Deerfield, including a hardware store, a family restaurant, the Polish American Citizens Club, and a small brewery. The town's Tilton Library and Frontier Regional High School are also in South Deerfield. South Deerfield

1521-485: Was served by two parishes, St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr , intended to serve the Polish immigrant community, and St. James. In 2009, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield announced that the two parishes would be merged, with the new parish, Holy Family, to occupy the former facilities of St. Stanislaus. The former church building and rectory of St. James were sold to a private purchaser, with

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