Definition of Township. Meaning of Township. Synonyms of Township

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Definition of Township

Township
Township Town"ship, n. 1. The district or territory of a town. Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county. 2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. 3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.

Meaning of Township from wikipedia

- A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally...
- A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county, most often in the northern and midwestern...
- including 38 urban townships, 122 rural townships and 24 mountain indigenous townships. 174 townships with 35 urban and 118 rural townships are located in...
- Lakeview Township is a township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States. The po****tion was 194 as of the 2000 census. Lakeview Township was so named...
- A township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area. The term is used in three ways. A survey township is a geographic reference...
- Lake View Township is a township in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The po****tion was 1,685 at the 2010 census. Lake View Township was organized...
- Torch Lake Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the po****tion of the township was 1,893...
- Abington Township may refer to the following places in the United States: Abington Township, Mercer County, Illinois Abington Township, Wayne County,...
- Harrison Township may refer to: Harrison Township, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, in Hot Spring County, Arkansas Harrison Township, Union County, Arkansas...
- Charter Township, officially the Charter Township of Shelby, is a charter township located in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The township is...