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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.
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.
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.
The term town is used in the U.S. state of Wisconsin in the same way as the term township is used in many other states. Towns are unincorporated minor civil divisions of counties . Wisconsin has 1,266 towns, which govern all parts of the state that are not included within the corporate boundaries of cities and villages.
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.
The term "town" is also used for a local level of government in New York and Wisconsin. The terms "town" and "township" are used interchangeably in Minnesota. Some townships or other incorporated areas like villages, boroughs, plantations, and hamlets have governments and political power; others are simply geographic designations.
A reprieve as Wisconsin ghost towns literally fall off the map. The depth and the breadth of the problem—declining rural populations and the loss of economic activity, potential, and hope that ...
Wisconsin Department of Administration. List of Wisconsin municipalities in alphabetical order; Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Wisconsin Cities, Villages, Townships and Unincorporated Places Listing; Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2013-2014 - state and local government statistics