Old English tunscipe "inhabitants or population of a town;" see town + -ship. Applied in Middle English to "manor, parish, or other division of a hundred." Specific sense of " [..]

segregated urban settlement for people of color in South Africa during the period of apartheid (1948-1994).

unit of local government.

A government with jurisdiction over a 36-square-mile area.

A piece of land that is six miles on each side. A township contains 36 square miles of land.

A unit of area established by Congress in the Land Ordinance of 1785 for use in surveying west of Pennsylvania, to locate and identify land for purposes of ownership. Referenced to a principal meridia [..]

(n) an administrative division of a county

Unit of survey of the public lands of the United States, normally a quadrangle approximately 6 miles on a side with boundaries conforming to meridians and parallels within established limits, containi [..]

An approximately 36-square-mile division of land. Townships are bounded by two successive Range Lines on the east and west and to successive Township Lines on the north and south. A Township is divided into 36 sections.

An approximately 36-square-mile division of land. Townships are bounded by two successive Range Lines on the east and west and to successive Township Lines on the north and south. A Township is divided into 36 sections.

A square tract 6 miles on each side containing 36 square miles of land. See also Section.

A township is a square tract of land about six miles (9.7 kilometres) on a side, containing thirty-six sections. Townships are numbered northward, starting from township one at the 49th parallel and i [..]

A type of minor civil division in 16 states. In some states, many or all townships are nonfunctioning entities. In Michigan, some townships are legally designated as "charter townships."

In section/township/range, a three character code for the township location; the first two characters are numeric and the last character is either "N" or "S". Also, the name given [..]

A square tract of land six miles on a side, it consists of 36 sections of one square mile each.

A survey township is simply a geographic reference used to define property location for deeds and grants as surveyed and platted by the General Land Office (GLO). A survey township is nominally six mi [..]

The public land survey system established during the founding of the nation called for surveying all lands in six-mile square blocks. Each six-mile square block is called a township. Each township is divided into 36 one-mile square blocks called sections. The sections in a township are numbered 1 through 36 beginning in the northeast corner of the [..]

The territory of a town; a subdivision of a county. (South African English,Pre 1994) An area set aside for nonwhite occupation. (South African English,Post 1994) A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) [..]

Divisional PLSS unit containing 36 sections.

  Divisional PLSS unit containing 36 sections.

A division of territory 6 miles square, containing 36 sections or 36 square miles.

In the government survey system of land description, the area between two township lines and two range lines; normally contains 36 sections of approximately 640 acres each.

A unit of land area measurement laid out by government survey six miles square, containing 36 sections and lying between one pair of township lines and one pair of range lines. Township is synonymous with congressional township and geographical township.