How would a town with no township be listed with a township?
I have relatives that still live, have been born, have died, and/or been buired in Rochester, Indiana. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Indiana Rochester, Indiana does NOT list a township but gives this location Rochester, Rochester Township, Fulton, Indiana, United States as a Standardized Place regardless if it's a place of birth, death, and/or burial.
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The Wikipedia page doesn't say anything about townships, one way or the other, but if you have a source indicating that the city is directly under the county, then you can go to the Places tool's page for the city, click "Improve This Place", and choose "Parent Place" for the first dropdown ("What is incorrect or incomplete"). Then write in that you believe the township should be removed from the jurisdiction, give your source (in the URL box if it's a link) and your email, and click Submit.
If the Places team agrees, they'll make the change and let you know by email, or if they believe the current entry is sufficiently correct, they'll explain why. Either way may take a while: the people responding are missionaries, doing their best to impose order on a large and varied database.
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From Wikipedia >
"United States
Main article: Township (United States)
In the United States, a township is a subdivision of a county and is usually 36 square miles (about 93 square kilometres) in area. There are two types of townships in the United States: civil and survey. A state may have one or both types. In states that have both, the boundaries often coincide in many counties.
- A civil township is a unit of local government in the U.S., which is subordinate to a county. Specific responsibilities and the degree of autonomy vary based on the laws of the respective state. In many states, townships are organized and operate under the authority of state statutes, similar to counties. In others, townships operate as municipal corporations, which are chartered entities with a degree of home rule. Notable exceptions include New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where townships are a class of incorporation with fixed boundaries and equal standing to a village, town, borough, or city, analogous to a New England town or towns in New York.
- A survey township is a unit of land measure defined by the Public Land Survey System, which in many states has no governmental function."
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@betty caudill_1 Rochester, the town is found in Rochester Township, Fulton County:
All of the public land states in the U.S. were laid out by township and range #. These include states that were owned originally by the the federal government—all states except the 13 original colonies plus Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and West Virginia. A good place to see maps of townships is at Historic Map Works Residential Genealogy.
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