TOWNSHIP

noun Date: 12th century an ancient unit of administration in England identical in area with or a division of a parish, 2. town 6, a unit of local government in some northeastern and north central states usually having a chief administrative officer or board, an unorganized subdivision of the county in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, an electoral and administrative district of the county in the southern United States, a division of territory in surveys of United States public land containing 36 sections or 36 square miles, an area in the Republic of South Africa segregated for occupation by persons of non-European descent