Borough (United States)

The Municipality of Anchorage is a consolidated city-borough, as are Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Yakutat, and Skagway.

Nearly half of the state's area is part of the vast Unorganized Borough, which has no borough-level government at all.

Boroughs are usually the populated center of a town that decided to incorporate in order to have more responsive local government.

[1] In Michigan, the term borough only applied to Mackinac Island from February 2, 1817, to March 25, 1847.

[2][3] The Borough government was established by William Henry Puthuff after the island was proclaimed to be a U.S. territory in the War of 1812.

New York City is divided into five boroughs: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

The boroughs of New York City are generally treated as separate counties for judicial purposes and for some legal filings.

[11] Wisconsin in the 19th century occasionally used the term "borough" for the type of civil township normally known as a town.