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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 associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule.
A township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area. [1]The term is used in three ways. A survey township is simply a geographic reference used to define property location for deeds and grants as surveyed and platted by the United States General Land Office (GLO).
A New Jersey township is similar, in that it is a form of municipal government equal in status to a village, town, borough, or city, and provides similar services to a Pennsylvania township, and varies in size from one-tenth (Shrewsbury Twp.) to one hundred (Jackson Twp.) square miles.
A municipality with more than five thousand residents is a village if its population falls below five thousand after subtracting out-of-town students and prisoners; When the boundaries of a township are coterminous with the boundaries of a city or village, the township ceases to exist as a separate government. [1]
Town – a settlement or village that has grown into an urbanized area and historically features a central market or court, particularly as a regional market town. City – any consolidated urbanized area, historically often with a walled urban core, and in larger urban or metropolitan areas the downtown area.
The term "town" is also used for a local level of government in New York and Wisconsin. The terms "town" and "township" are used interchangeably in Minnesota. Some townships or other incorporated areas like villages, boroughs, plantations, and hamlets have governments and political power; others are simply geographic designations.
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