What does "township" mean?
Township: In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
Additional senses
- 2.In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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