For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.

The ancient Greek township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.

To make up for a lack of hard currency, Thailand's township, Amphoe Kut Chum, once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, was once Baht, and is still current in metaphorical expressions.

The village is located within the T3S R3W survey township.

There is a verifiable population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris.

Parma is bisected by a township line ; as a result, the town lies in both Parma and Sandstone Townships, an interesting twist in an area where townships tend to be more important than villages, at least as far as government goes.

The nearest permanently inhabited settlement is 366. 8 km, or 198. 1 nmi, west of the headland of Aird an Runair, near the crofting township of Hogha Gearraidh on the island of North Uist at.

* February 17 – Miami University ( Ohio ) is established on the township of land required to be set aside for it under the conditions of the Miami Purchase in 1794.

Fifty houses are made a township, and for each township there is appointed an elder.

In these cases, the township is generally subordinate to the county, which is generally subordinate to the state.

It was officially awarded township status in 1742, and it is still the major town for the region.

The township of Trento is geographically very large and encompasses the town centre as well as many suburbs of extremely varied geographical and population conditions ( from the industrial suburb of Gardolo, just north of the city, to tiny mountain hamlets on the Monte Bondone ).

" Or, as the author of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article noted, " To the topographer, as to the genealogist, its evidence is of primary importance, as it not only contains the earliest survey of each township or manor, but affords, in the majority of cases, a clue to its subsequent descent.

The white settlers of the area used the name " nowata " for the township, and local Cherokees, being unaware the word had its origins in the Delaware Language, called the town Amadikanigvnagvna () which means " the water is all gone from here ", i. e. " no water ".

Sometimes, the word " town " is short for " township ".

In New York, a " town " is a political subdivision ( synonymous with township ).

The village is called a tsuen or cūn ( 村 ) under a rural township ( 鄉 ) and a li ( 里 ) under an urban township ( 鎮 ) or a county-controlled city.

In some states such as New York, Wisconsin, or Michigan, a village is an incorporated municipality, usually, but not always, within a single town or civil township.

Villages in Ohio are often legally part of the township from which they were incorporated, although exceptions such as Hiram exist, in which the village is separate from the township.

Each township is administered by a committee of township leaders, who make decisions regarding city beautification and infrastructure.

Fires Creek Bear Reserve is north of the township of Tusquittee.

In parts of north west Scotland ( Highlands and Islands ), a " township " is a crofting settlement. In the Scottish Highlands generally the term may describe a very small agrarian community, usually a local rural or semi-rural government within a county.

There are nine municipalities bordering the township: Garwood and Westfield to the west, Springfield Township to the north, Kenilworth to the northeast, Roselle and Roselle Park to the east, Linden to the southeast, Clark and Winfield to the south.

She was born in KwaMashu township, north of Durban, South Africa.

: Beginning at the northeast corner of the county of Clermont, running thence west with the line of said county to the Little Miami ; thence up the same with the meanders thereof to the north boundary of the first tier of sections in the second entire range of townships in the Miami Purchase ; thence west to the northeast corner of Section No. 7 in the third township of the aforesaid range ; thence north to the Great Miami ; thence up the same to the middle of the fifth range of townships ; thence east to the County line ; thence with same south to the place of beginning.

The Eastern Continental Divide follows a ridge north of the township, and defines the boundaries between the Cashiers, Canada, and Glenville townships.

The West Fork of the Tuckasegee River originates within the township, and flows north into the River Township.

Beginning at the point where the line between ranges 9 and 10 strikes the center of section 6, and running thence south with the said range line, and from its termination in a direct line to the northern boundary of Tallahatchie County and thence along the northern boundary of Tallahatchie and Yalobusha counties, to the center of range 5 west ; thence north through the center of range 5 west, according to the sectional lines, to the center of township six ; thence west through the center of township six, according to the sectional lines, to the beginning.

Madison County is bounded by beginning at a point on Big Black River, where the same crosses the center line in township twelve, range three, east ; thence east to the old Choctaw boundary line ; thence north on said boundary line to the center line of township twelve, range five, east ; thence through the center of said township twelve, range five, east, to the range line between townships five and six, east ; thence south on said range line to Pearl River ; thence down said river, with its meanderings, to the line between townships six and seven, north ; thence west on said township line to the basis meridian of the Choctaw survey ; thence north on said meridian line to the line between townships seven and eight, north ; thence west on said township line to the line between ranges two and three, west ; thence north on said range line to Big Black River ; thence up said river, with its meanderings, to the beginning.

The county government operates the county jail, maintains township roads, operates the major local courts, keeps files of deeds and mortgages, maintains vital records, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of welfare and other social services.

With the village being the grassroots ( usually a hundred or so families ), and not considered part of the hierarchy, local government advances through the township, county, prefecture or municipality, and the province as the geographical area of jurisdiction increases.

Common names for local government entities include state, province, region, department, county, prefecture, district, city, township, town, borough, parish, municipality, shire and village.

There are also many villages which span the boundaries of more than one town or township, and some villages may even straddle county borders.

* Richard R. Smith, county sheriff, from Otsego township,

* Jacob Morris, county clerk, from Otsego township,

The county is divided into six townships: Brasstown comprises the westernmost township, Hayesville is centrally located and home to the county seat, Hiawassee is the smallest and surrounds Lake Chatuge, Shooting Creek is the easternmost township, Sweetwater is a small township northwest of Hayesville Township, and Tusquittee, one of the larger townships and most northern.

* In eastern Canada a township is one form of the subdivision of a county.

In Canada, a municipality is a city, town, township, county, or regional municipality which has been incorporated by statute by the legislatures of the provinces and territories.

* A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county.

The county is divided into one township: St. Onge ; and two areas of unorganized territory: North Lawrence and South Lawrence.

The county is divided into one township: Elvira ; and three areas of unorganized territory: Crow Creek, North Buffalo, and Southeast Buffalo.

The first town laid out in the county was North Liberty, established by Lucas Sullivant in 1797, but the first settlement in the county was made in present-day Jerome township by Joshua and James Ewing in 1798.

Under Ohio law, there are two types of incorporated municipal jurisdictions: cities and villages, and any territory within a county that is not part of an incorporated municipality ( city or village ), is part of a township.