As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.

In Australia, borough can designate a town and its surrounding area, such as the Borough of Queenscliffe.

Only Kawerau District, an enclave within Whakatane District, continues to follow the tradition of a small town council that does not include surrounding rural area.

It remained a relatively small walled medieval town during the 14th century and was under constant threat from the surrounding native clans.

Stanley has two taxi services which can be used for travel within the town and the surrounding areas.

Several factors figure into the decline: one is the fact that the average family nowadays consists of fewer people, so fewer people live in each house ; second, the town is virtually unable to expand because all the surrounding lands were sold to the Gooisch Natuurreservaat by city architect W. M.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the market town ( köping ) of Hultsfred ( instituted in 1927 ) with a number of surrounding municipalities.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

In 1997 the majority of town VECs were absorbed by the surrounding county.

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

In Portugal, a municipality is a directly elected local area authority generally consisting of a main city or town and surrounding villages, with wide-ranging local administration powers.

* In Puerto Rico, a municipality ( municipio ) consists of an urban area ( termed a city or town ) plus all of its surrounding barrios comprising the municipality.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

The brewery itself is located very near to Faversham town centre, and it is possible to smell the brewing processes regularly in the town and surrounding streets.

The town of Bristol itself proved too strong for him, and Stephen contented himself with raiding and pillaging the surrounding area.

In 1870 French prisoners of war taken during the Franco-Prussian War were directed to build a chain of forts surrounding the town.

As a result of the immigration of new townsfolk from the surrounding villages a new settlement, later called Neustadt, grew up on the northeastern edge of the old town.

The British interest in reducing pirate attacks on British merchants lead to their creating a protectorate over the town of Aden in 1839, and adding the surrounding lands over the following years.

Task Force K-Bar conducted combat operations in the massive cave complexes at Zhawar Kili, the city of Kandahar and surrounding territory, the town of Prata Ghar and hundreds of miles of rough terrain in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

The town itself, with some contiguous pasture land, is then said to have been granted to the Levites of the clan of Kohath, while the fields of the city, as well as its surrounding villages were assigned to Caleb, who expels the three giants, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, who ruled the city.

The walls surrounding the town, which had been designed by Vauban, were razed in 1904 to accommodate urban development.

* Dover Community Radio Dover District's podcasting service, an online radio service for the town and surrounding area.

There are a number of cross country skiing trails in the forests surrounding the town.

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Flix (, ) is a town in the comarca of Ribera d ' Ebre, Catalonia.

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is the first major town of the comarca of La Litera / La Llitera in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.

Valderrobres () or Vall-de-roures (, ) is a municipality and the major town of the comarca of Matarranya () in the province of Teruel, Aragon ( Spain ).

Palamós () is a town and municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Besalú () is a town in the comarca of Garrotxa, in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Empúries (), formerly known by its Spanish name Ampurias (), was a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Catalan comarca of Alt Empordà in Catalonia, Spain.

Benasque () or Benasc (, ) is a town in the comarca of Ribagorza, province of Huesca, ( Spain ).

* Campo de Gibraltar, a Spanish comarca and former municipal term and hinterland of the town of Gibraltar

For that reason there is an exclave of Spain in this part of France, the town of Llívia, considered a town and not a village, which remains under Spanish control and is part of the comarca of Baixa Cerdanya, the Spanish province of Girona.

Cambrils () is a coastal town in the comarca of Baix Camp, province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

Castelldefels () is a town in the Baix Llobregat comarca, in the province of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain and part of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.

It is located about southwest of Barcelona, just to the north of the massís del Garraf and is the last town on the coast before the comarca of Garraf.

Cadaqués () is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

The comarca also contains many medieval bridges and conserves many old town centers, most notably those of Berga or Bagà.

La Pobla de Segur () is a town and municipality located in the comarca of Pallars Jussà, province of Lleida, Catalonia, in northern Spain.

Estepona is a town and municipality in the comarca of the Costa del Sol, southern Spain.

Bellpuig () is a town in the comarca ( county ) of l ' Urgell in Catalonia, Spain.

Quartell is a small town and municipality in the fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Province of Valencia in eastern Spain.

The administrative capital is Fraga, with 13, 592 inhabitants the largest town of the comarca.

Sant Just Desvern () ( Old Catalan for Saint Justin of-the-Buckthorn ) is a town near Barcelona, in the comarca of the Baix Llobregat, Catalonia.