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Union Town Hall in Rock County, Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, a town is an unincorporated jurisdiction within a county; Wisconsin towns are thus similar to civil townships in most other states. All residents of Wisconsin who do not live in a city or village live in a town. Towns provide a limited number of services to their residents.
Wisconsin is covered in towns, villages and cities — some with the same names, right next to each other. ... Most of Wisconsin's 72 counties have all three forms of local government — cities ...
Because township government is defined by each state, the use of this form also varies by state. States using a township form include the following: Township government is used in Indiana, Iowa [5], Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin (in Wisconsin known as towns).
Madison Township Hall in Madison Township, Richland County, Ohio. Depending on the state, the township government has varying degrees of authority. In the Upper Midwestern states near the Great Lakes, civil townships (known in Michigan as general law townships [1] and in Wisconsin as towns), are often, but not always, overlaid on survey townships.
For a more detailed discussion, see Administrative divisions of Wisconsin#Town. Frequently a village or city may have the same name as a town. As of 2006, Wisconsin had 1,260 towns, some with the same name. This list of towns and their respective counties is current as of 2002, per the Wisconsin Department of Administration.
Wisconsinites can still visit some of the towns and cities that date back to the state's founding. Here's a list.
Colloquially, the terms "town" and "township" are often used interchangeably in Wisconsin. The words are not identical, however. The word "town" denotes a unit of government while "township" is a surveyor's term describing the basic grid framework for legal descriptions of all land in the state (including land in cities and villages).
An urban township (or "urban town" in Wisconsin) is an unincorporated area which has adopted a limited local government. [1] Generally, an urban township is afforded more local authority than that of a township and less than that of a city. Often, urban townships use this authority for greater economic development.