I understand how a village grows into a town and a town into a city, etc, but I can’t find an understandable answer to how the whole process begins initially. Do a group of people just form a contract and agree to share responsibilities? Who gives up the land? Perhaps it was easier to understand when there was more available land? Any help understanding how the whole ball gets rolling would be much appreciated.
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In Indiana, you do it like [this](https://law.justia.com/codes/indiana/title-36/article-5/chapter-1/section-36-5-1-2/#:~:text=(a)%20Proceedings%20to%20incorporate%20a,territory%20sought%20to%20be%20incorporated.).
Basically, a group of people who own land outside any existing city or town write up a petition and send it to the county. There are a lot of rules and a lot of things that need to be done (and paid for) by the landowners. Then the county holds hearings and makes their decision.
It doesn’t happen as often as it used to, because pretty much everybody who lives outside the town limits lives there because they don’t want to live in a town.
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