Ten civil townships:
- Stafford Township, Minn.
- Wayne Township, N.J.
- Doylestown Township, Penn.
- Oxford Township, Mich.
- Kayenta Township, Navajo Nation
- Oak Park Township, Ill.
- Colerain Township, Ohio
- Lawrence Township, Ind.
- Langley Township, B.C.
- Smithtown Township, N.Y.
A civil township is a form of municipal government. What a township does varies widely from state to state. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for example, townships are pretty important and perform a large number of municipal functions, whereas in Illinois -- the suburban Chicago parts of Illinois, at any rate, where almost everything is incorporated as a city or village -- they don't seem to do much of anything.
