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 generally subordinate to the county and considered an important unit of local government only in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin.

2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a square territory of six by six miles, containing 36 sections of a square mile (external link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/townships/landexplanation.html).

3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.