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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.

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- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
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- 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...
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- Liberty Township may refer to: Liberty Township, Carroll County, Arkansas Liberty Township, Dallas County, Arkansas, in Dallas County, Arkansas Liberty...
- Lincoln Township may refer to: Lincoln Township, Madison County, Arkansas Lincoln Township, Newton County, Arkansas, in Newton County, Arkansas Lincoln...