Township (unit)

Township was a measure of area in the United States of America . Township was used to classify counties, electoral, school or church districts and named them with this term.

• 1 township = 36 square miles = 932362 ares

See also

• Section (unit)

literature

• Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 19, Leipzig 1909, p. 651.
• Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 442.
• Herder's Conversations Lexicon. Volume 5, Freiburg im Breisgau 1857, p. 504.
• Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 17. Altenburg 1863, p. 734.