The Town of St George, founded in 1612, is an outstanding example of the earliest English urban settlement in the New World.

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However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.

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The United States had become majority urban as recently as 1920, and then only by the U.S. Census definition of urban as a settlement of more than 2, 500 persons.

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Highland Council warned that the settlement would hit rural areas harder as staffing costs were much higher in schools outwith urban areas.

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