What exactly is a township? I think this often confuses city dwellers when they first become interested in buying rural land. Generally, the different between a town and a township is a township refers to a surveyor's township. This is an older historical way to measure land whereas a town is a generally a unit of government.
A Town is a square tract of land measuring 36 square miles in total. Each township is usually 6 miles long and 6 miles wide. The town is then divided into 36 townships, or sections each being one square mile in size. These sections are then used as a way to describe a tract of rural land. Vernon County has 21 townships, with a total of 816 square miles of land a population of a little more than 28,000. This Photo is looking across the town of Liberty nearby the intersection of County SS and Highway 56. Here is a tip: if you are searching for land the municipality could be a town name, not a village or city name, which can cause some problems finding where it is located within Vernon County.
