The Land Ordinance of 1785 had created six-mile-square townships divided into 36 sections, each measuring one square mile, or 640 acres.
Based on the data in HMIS, general clinic attendance (total outpatient consultations in the ten study townships divided by the total population of those townships, expressed as a percentage) was 15.13, 26.15 and 21.33% in 2007, post-Nargis 2008 and 2009, respectively.
In 2000 the Greater Johannesburg administrative structure was decentralized into 11 regions, with the Soweto township being divided between two of these.
Each township is divided into thirty-six equal sections, each comprised of one square mile or 640 acres.
ASMR of each township was calculated, and all townships were also divided into three groups in each significant and nonsignificant category based on cut-off point of years 2010.
Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the early 12th century, Ashton-under-Lyne anciently constituted a "single parish-township", but was divided into four divisions (sometimes each styled townships): Ashton Town, Audenshaw, Hartshead, and Knott Lanes.
By 1913, the original townships had been divided into a total of 13 townships.
All townships were then divided into three groups based on ASMR value of <1.76%, 1.76% ≤ ASMR < 2.64%, and ≥2.64%, respectively, for each significant and nonsignificant category.
In 1813, Trumbull County was divided into townships, with Youngstown Township comprising much of what became Mahoning County.
The Steel Township till 1999 was divided into 18 Sectors, Sector 6 being the largest of them.
