
Main article: Survey township Diagram of survey township Hierarchy of systemic numbering in the PLSS Provided certain conditions are met, a charter township is mostly exempt from annexation to contiguous cities or villages, and carries additional rights and responsibilities of home rule.

A survey township is nominally six by six miles square, or 23,040 acres.

A survey township is simply a geographic reference used to define property location for deeds and grants as surveyed and platted by the General Land Office (GLO).Term for several types of geographic areasĪ township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area.
