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Prior to standardization, some of the Ohio Lands were surveyed into townships of five miles on each side. These are often known as Congressional Townships.

Survey townships are distinct from Civil Township s. A survey township is used to establish boundaries for land ownership. A civil township is a form of Local Government . In states that use both forms, civil townships generally use the boundaries established by survey townships. County lines, especially in Western States, usually follow township lines, and this has lead to the large number of square or rectangular counties in the West, which are agglomerations of townships. Other counties may have county lines that form a Jack-O-Lantern tooth pattern of townships.

In Western Canada, they adopted the same survey township format by the Dominion Land Survey and do not form administrative units. These townships also have the area of 36 square miles (six miles by six miles).