Gore (surveying)
A gore is an irregular parcel of land, as small as a triangle of median in a street intersection or as large as an unincorporated area the size of a township.
In old English law, a gore was a small, narrow strip of land.
In some northeastern U.S. states (mainly northern New England), a gore (sometimes a land grant or purchase) remains as an unincorporated area of a county that is not part of any town, has limited self-government,[1] and may be unpopulated.
A gore would be created by conflicting surveys, resulting in two or more patentees claiming the same land, or lie in an area between two supposedly abutting towns but technically in neither.
In Maine, all unincorporated territories (whether townships, gores, or grants) are governed directly by the Land Use Planning Commission, a state agency.
1) a triangular gore (upper center left) along the border between the Rombout Patent and the Philipse Patent, labeled "The Gore";
2) a quadrilinear gore in the upper right created by the boundaries of the Beekman Patent , Rombout Patent, The Oblong , and the Survey Line of 1754, labeled "The Gore"; and
3) an unlabeled triangular gore originating at the Hudson River and spanning the Philipse Patent's northern border, created by the Survey Line of 1754, The Oblong, and the East-West Line ("Supposed County Line") as a base
