Many of the hamlets in Rockland are little more than a handful of houses surrounded by woodlands. Parkston is one of these. Like a neighborhood in a larger community or city, its identity comes from the community itself. There may be a history to the area, to the name, but often it's lost in the past. Parkston seems to be such a place. Nothing is found, so far, in any of the town histories and there is not a history written, so far, of the community. "Though the term "hamlet" is not defined under New York law, many people in the state use the term hamlet to refer to a community within a town that is not incorporated as a village but is identified by a name, i.e. an unincorporated community." "A census-designated place (CDP) is defined by the United States Census Bureau as "a statistical entity defined for each decennial census according to Census Bureau guidelines, comprising a densely settled concentration of population" that is not part of a city or a village "but is locally identified by a name." Parkston is not designated by the census.
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