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

- defines a township as "a site reserved for and laid out as a town; such a site at an early stage of its occupation and development; a small town". The term...
- hamlets). Sometimes, the word town is short for township. In general, today towns can be differentiated from townships, villages, or hamlets on the basis...
- beached his ship, the Endeavour, for repairs in 1770. Both the town and Mount Cook (431 metres or 1,415 feet) which rises up behind the town were named...
- Tekapo (Māori: Takapō) to avoid confusion with the lake itself) is a small township located at the southern end of the lake of the same name in the inland...
- Wisconsin, a town Enterprise Rancheria in California Enterprise Township, Michigan Enterprise Township, Jackson County, Minnesota Enterprise Township, Valley...
- oldest existing town and was chartered in 1735 by the Province of M****achusetts Bay and was called New Taunton or Township Number One. The town did not have...
- interchangeably to describe the village or the town. The verbal division between the smaller hamlet of Setauket and township of Brookhaven was not set until well...
- criteria in defining towns. They are: Statutory Town (ST): All places with a muni****lity, corporation, cantonment board, or notified town area committee,...
- Oxford Township, officially the Charter Township of Oxford, is a charter township in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The po****tion was 22...
- 93.9 km2 in which 30.8 km2 is used for township and 60.354 km2 area is under planning. The township of New Town is divided into Action Area I, II, III...