Township

Township

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.