Archaeological evidence indicates that prehistoric Indian settlements existed in Nevada more than 20,000 years ago.
There is no definitive record of permanent settlements in the interior of Nescopeck Creek's watershed, but temporary Native American settlements existed in what is now Nescopeck State Park.
Maroonage, runaway slaves in isolated or hidden settlements, existed in all the Southern states, and swamp-based maroon communities existed in the Deep South, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
A settlement existed in Roman times, but the present city grew from the mid-12th century around Marburg Castle on Piramida Hill.
Evidence of a Saxon settlement exists in the form of religious objects found when the Victorian parish church was built.
Their settlements existed even in the 1880s in Dry Bay, Excursion Inlet, Point Couverden and the Port Frederick area (now known as Hoonah) and Dundas Bay.
No settlements existed when Israel was created and five Arab armies sought to destroy it, nor did settlements exist when the Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964.
The informal settlements which exist in many cities often consist of poorly constructed shelters located on marginal land that is especially vulnerable to natural hazards.
Scattered settlements exist wherever the Toxic Jungle relents.
