What Township Am I In?

Find the civil township you’re in from your location or a street address — the local government unit, from official Census boundaries. Not every place has one, and we’ll say so.

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Finding your township…

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Two different things called a “township”

The word means two unrelated things, and most tools blur them. A civil township is a unit of local government — it runs roads, zoning, and services in the ~20 states that have them. A survey township is something else entirely: a roughly six-mile-square block in the Public Land Survey System grid (the “T3N R2W” references on rural deeds), a surveying tool with no government at all. This tool answers the civil township — the one that actually governs an address — using the Census Bureau’s county-subdivision boundaries.

Where civil townships exist — and where they don’t

Civil townships are concentrated in about 20 states across the Northeast and Midwest — among them Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and New York. Much of the South and West has no civil townships at all; there, the Census divides counties into census county divisions (CCDs), which are statistical areas, not governments. If you’re in one of those states — or inside an incorporated city that isn’t a township — this tool tells you so directly instead of inventing a township that doesn’t exist.

How to find your township

Share your location or type your address. Allow location access when your browser asks, or enter your street address.
We check the official county-subdivision boundaries. Your point is tested against the U.S. Census Bureau’s county-subdivision boundaries, which carry civil townships.
See your township — or that there isn’t one. Your civil township appears, or we tell you plainly if your area has no township government.

Common questions

Why does it say I’m not in a township?

Because your state or area doesn’t have civil townships, or your address sits inside an incorporated city or borough rather than a township. That’s the honest answer — many parts of the country have no township government.

Is this the survey township (T/R) from my deed?

No. Those are Public Land Survey System coordinates — a surveying grid with no government. This tool reports the civil township, the unit of local government, which is a completely different boundary.

What’s a census county division (CCD)?

In states without civil townships, the Census Bureau still needs to divide each county for statistics, so it draws CCDs. They have names and boundaries but no elected government, taxes, or services.

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau — County Subdivisions (TIGER/Line boundaries and the Census geocoder), which carry civil townships (and, where there are none, census county divisions).