 In some northeastern U.S. states (mainly northern New England), a gore (sometimes a grant or purchase) is an unincorporated area of a county that is not part of any town and has limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited or nearly so).Historically, gores were generally the result of errors when the land was first surveyed and the towns laid out.A gore would lie in an area between two (supposedly abutting) towns but would technically be in neither.