Plainfield was originally formed as a township on April 5, 1847, from portions of Westfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County.

During the Middle Ages, Preston formed a parish and township in the hundred of Amounderness and was granted a Guild Merchant charter in 1179, giving it the status of a market town.

In the following years more townships were formed and township borders were altered several times.

The eastern edge of the Kinchega National Park is formed by the Darling River, and the park adjoins the township of Menindee.

The township was formed from Quincy Township by the Michigan Legislature on April 2, 1838.

On May 16, 1972, township residents voted to incorporate and the City of Burton was officially formed July 1 of that year.

Amboy Township was formed by an act of the Michigan Legislature on March 28, 1850, from Woodbridge Township and Ransom Township out of the partial survey townships 9 south ranges 2 and 3 west and the southern tier of sections from survey township 8 south ranges 2 and 3 west.

The township was formed from the Reading Township in 1839.

Unadilla was formed by an act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan on March 26, 1835, and initially included what is now Iosco Township to the north and a portion of Lyndon township in Washtenaw County on the south.

A township council was formed.

* Filer City is the name of an unincorporated community and post office within the township at just south of the city of Manistee on the south shore of Manistee Lake formed by the Manistee River.

Thus Norman township was formed in 1911.

* Northland is an unincorporated community in the west central portion of the township at It was founded and platted by the Wolverine Lumber Company and formed around the company's mill and general store.

In 1835, a group of settlers gathered in his home and formed a township.

On April 5, 1880, at the camp, area residents met and elected officers for their newly formed township.

Named as a portmanteau formed from the township and the principal product, lumber, a post office operated here from February 27, 1884, until May 31, 1905.

Lakin township was formed in 1903 from the eastern half of Morrill Township.

The township was organized in 1858 and named for the adjacent city of Oronoco, which had formed in 1854.

Most of the township is part of the glacial moraine that formed the southeast shore of prehistoric Lake Agassiz.

Grove Park-Tilden township was formed in 1992 from the merger of Grove Park Township and Tilden Township.

In the 1950s the township was threatened by the suburban sprawl of the ensuing larger communities that were formed, such as Maplewood.

Harrisville township was formed in 1870 from lands ceded by Marlborough, Dublin, Hancock, Nelson, and Roxbury.

Hebron was formed in 1791 from a portion of the extinct township of Cockermouth and from a portion of what was then called West Plymouth.

Portions of the township, notably the West Atlantic City and Anchorage Poynte areas, are not contiguous to the main body of the municipality, having been separated from the mainland portion of the township as municipalities were formed, largely since the boroughitis phenomenon in the 1890s.

The township included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the Treaty of Chicago of 1821.

Section is a township in Jackson County, Alabama, United States and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

South Britain and Southford are included in the incorporated township of Southbury.

The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and Chikaming Township.

Royalton township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln Charter Township, Sodus Township, and St. Joseph Charter Township.

The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917.

On March 9, 1833, the Township of Grand Blanc was organized which then included Flint Township survey area and many of the other survey township areas of the future Genesee County.

Flint Township was organized on March 2, 1836 and included the township areas of Burton, Clayton, Flushing, Mt.

Flint Township was organized in 1836 and included the township areas of Burton, Clayton, Flushing, Mt.

Flint Township was organized in 1836 and included the township areas of Burton, Clayton, Flushing, Mt.

The 2000 Census was erroneously found to have included population in the nearby city of Mason within the boundaries of the township.

At the time of settlement, Prairie Ronde was a part of St. Joseph County and in the township of Brady, which included all of future Kalamazoo and Barry Counties and a large part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula to the north.

Communities in the township have included Idlewild, which still exists, and Nirvana, an early lumbering center that has entirely disappeared.

The township initially included the adjacent townships of Oregon and Deerfield.

It originally included the area that is now Sterling Heights, which was set off March 17, 1835, as the township of Jefferson, renamed to Sterling on March 6, 1838.

As originally platted, the township included present-day Gerrish, Lyon and Markey townships.

The villages of Morrill and Ramey are included in the remaining portion of the township.

Therefore, until it was organized as a township in 1860, the northern part was included in Frankford Township and the southern part was part of Le Roy Township.

The former municipality of's-Gravenzande also included the township of Heenweg.

Badger Township is not connected with any verifiable native or European historic events or circumstances until transfer in the Treaty of Old Crossing ( 1863 ) and the Treaty of Old Crossing ( 1864 ), which included extensive other areas and involved no physical acts within the township.

As a result, much of the land is now included in wildlife management areas, including Kakaik State Wildlife Management Area, Erskine State Wildlife Management Area, and Polk State Wildlife Management Area, and much of the remainder of the township has been enrolled as CRP land.

The township included the areas now known as Roseville, Lauderdale, and Falcon Heights, as well as parts of present day Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

At the time it was incorporated, the township covered ( almost four times its current area of ) and included several municipalities which were formed from portions of Bloomfield during the course of the nineteenth century, including Belleville ( created on April 8, 1839 ), Montclair ( April 15, 1868 ), Woodside Township ( March 24, 1869 ) and Glen Ridge ( February 13, 1895 ).

In the 2006 survey of America's Safest Cities, the township was ranked 23rd, out of 371 cities included nationwide, in the 13th annual Morgan Quitno survey.