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township (n.)
1.an administrative division of a county"the town is responsible for snow removal"
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TownshipTown"ship (?), n.
1. The district or territory of a town.
☞ In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county.
2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
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township (n.)
township (n.)
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The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. While township may be associated with an urban area there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban.
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In Australia the designation of "township" traditionally refers to a small town—a small community in a rural district: such a place in Britain might qualify as a village or a hamlet. The term refers purely to the settlement; it does not refer to a unit of government. Townships are governed as part of a larger (e.g. shire or city) council.
In Canada, two kinds of township occur in common use.
In China, townships are found at the fourth level of the administrative hierarchy, together with ethnic townships, towns and subdistricts.
In local government in New Zealand there are no longer towns or townships. All land is part of either a "city" (mostly urban) or a "district" (mostly rural). The term "municipality" has become rare in New Zealand since about 1979 and has no legal status.
The term "township" is still in common usage in New Zealand in reference to a small town or urban community located in a rural area. The term would generally equate to that of "village" in England.
In South Africa, under Apartheid, the term township (or location) in everyday usage, came to mean a residential development that confined non-whites (Blacks, "coloureds," and Indians) living near or working in white-only communities. Soweto ("SOuth-WEstern TOwnships") furnishes a well-known example. However, the term township also has a precise legal meaning, and is used on land titles (in all areas, not only traditionally non-white areas).
In the United Kingdom the term township is no longer in official use, but the term still has some meaning.
In England, Township referred to a subdivision used to administer a large parish.[1] This use became obsolete at the end of the nineteenth century when local government reform converted many townships that, up to then, had been subdivisions of ancient parishes into the newer civil parishes in their own right. This formally separated the connection between the ecclesiastical functions of ancient parishes and the civil administrative functions that had been started in the sixteenth century. Recently, some councils, normally in the north of England, have revived the term. Municipalities as a term lived on longer until the local government reforms of 1974. A municipal council was the name given to a type of local government council administering a Municipal Borough that could contain civil parishes or could be unparished.[2]
In Scotland the term is still used for some rural settlements. 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.
In Jersey, a township is a redundant term as the only surviving local government level at present are the 12 Parishes of the island.
There are two types of townships in the United States. A state may have one or both types. In states that have both, the boundaries usually coincide.
In Zimbabwe the term township was used for segregated parts of suburban areas. During colonial years of Rhodesia, the term township referred to a residential area reserved for black citizens within the boundaries of a city or town, and is still commonly used colloquially. This reflected the South African usage. In modern Zimbabwe it is also used to refer to a residential area within close proximity of a rural growth point.
In the context of Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and CIS states, the term is sometimes used to denote a small semi-urban, sometimes industrial, settlement and used to translate the terms поселок городского типа (townlet), посад (posad), местечко (mestechko, from Polish "miasteczko", a small town; in the cases of predominant Jewish population the latter is sometimes translated as shtetl).
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