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    A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's Dominion...
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    approximately one-square-mile block of land. There are 36 sections in a survey township. Township (Twp, T): A square parcel of land of 36 square miles, or a measure...
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  • A township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area. The term is used in three ways. A survey township is simply a geographic reference...
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  • States to survey and identify land parcels Survey township, a square unit of land, six miles (~9.7 km) on a side, done by the U.S. Public Land Survey System...
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    numbered township and range roads in rural areas based on the old Dominion Land Survey. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, rural municipalities, township-like...
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  • States Township (United States) Alberta Township System, Canada Township Roads in Saskatchewan Township, as defined by the Canadian Dominion Land Survey Township...
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    containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. The legal description of a tract of land under...
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  • and the degree of autonomy vary in each state. Civil townships are distinct from survey townships, but in states that have both, the boundaries often coincide...
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  • Thumbnail for Forest Township, Genesee County, Michigan
    Forest Township is a civil township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Survey township designation is 9 north and 8 east. The population...
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    Millcreek Township (or Mill Creek Township) is a survey township in south-central Hamilton County, Ohio, that also existed as a civil township from 1810...
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  • Springwells Township in 1833. Greenfield eventually encompassed the survey township T1S R11E. It even had its own police force. By 1875, a series of annexations...
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    Charter Township of Mundy is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,281 at the 2020 census. The Survey township...
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    Charter Township of Genesee, or Genesee Township, is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the Public Land Survey System...
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  • Statistical Area. Under the United States Public Land Survey System it is a survey township identified as Township 149 North, Range 42 West, Fifth Principal Meridian...
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    census, an increase from 12,332 at the 2010 census. The township was organized as a survey township in 1838. It is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan...
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    Land Ordinance of 1785 (category Surveying of the United States)
    said township." Section 16 was located near the center of the township. (For states surveyed under the federal rectangular system, survey townships and...
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    Royal Oak survey township, which was organized in 1833. With a present-day area of 0.55 square miles (1.42 km2), Royal Oak Charter Township is the state's...
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    (93 km2) survey township, only a small portion of 0.11 square miles (0.28 km2) remains unincorporated from the surrounding city of Novi. Novi Township is the...
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    population was 13,336 at the 2010 census. The township was organized as a survey township in 1845. It is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located...
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    Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions...
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    within the survey township area, but the township and city are administrated autonomously. Gera is an unincorporated community in the township on S. Gera...
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    census, the township population was 17,691, up from 14,697 at the 2010 census. It encompasses the entire portion of the survey township T3S R12W. The...
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    line that divides a survey township between north and south. Many communities in the United States have roads that run along survey baselines, many of...
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    Bloomfield Township is a charter township in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern suburb of Detroit, Bloomfield Township is located...
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    Township of Davison is a civil township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan consisting of the survey township of North 7 East 8 less the administratively...
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    Van Buren Township is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Van Buren Township is located roughly...
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  • land from the survey township that forms the basis for the present civil township. The township was established in 1840 as a township of Saginaw County...
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    The city of Grand Blanc was formed out of part of the township's survey area. The Charter Township is the largest suburb of Flint. Whigville, also known...
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    the township population was 3,289. The township was organized as a survey township in 1848. It is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located...
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    "College Township" was the full survey township located in the northwest corner of Butler County, Ohio, now corresponding to the civil township of Oxford...
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