Gore (surveying)

For a gore as a geometric shape, see Gore (segment).
For other uses, see Gore (disambiguation).
Map of the Philipse Patent (largely today's Putnam County, New York) showing three gores resulting from conflicting surveys:
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
Averys Gore, Vermont: a small roughly triangular shaped community in the far northeast of the state, abutting quadrilateral Warren's Gore to its west

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 modern land law and surveying a gore is a strip of land, usually triangular in shape, as might be left between surveys that do not close. 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.

  1. ^ Black, H.C. (1968). Garner, Bryan A. (ed.). Black's Law Dictionary (Revised 4th ed.). St. Paul: West Publishing Co. p. 824.