What do you call it when you live just outside of a county seat, close enough to pay into city taxes such as the Parks & Recreation Fund and Levee Authority, but far enough away to be excluded from voting in municipal elections?

That is what it means to be in an unincorporated area.

An unincorporated area is a community that is not overseen by a local government, but not all unincorporated areas are the same. Some are hinterlands, hamlets, settlements, and villages that do not border a city and function as independent, informal towns. Others share a county with a city designated as its seat, such as the communities and townships that surround Evansville.

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