Dixon Township was a

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

Logan County Logan County is the name of ten current counties and one former county in the United States: * Logan County, Arkansas * Logan County, Colorado * Logan County, Idaho (1889–1895) * Logan County, Illinois * Logan County, Kansas * Logan County, K ...

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, United States. The former township government was disbanded in 2001, and the area was designated by the

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Dixon Unorganized Territory Dixon may refer to: Places International * Dixon Entrance, part of the Inside Passage between Alaska and British Columbia Canada * Dixon, Ontario United States * Dixon, California * Dixon, Illinois * Dixon, Greene County, Indiana * Dixon, India ...

. It later was merged into the

West Logan Unorganized Territory West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...

. As of the 2000 census the township's population was 17; it covered an

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containing of land and of water, and it was located at . The

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was . The township was located in the western part of the county and it bordered the following other townships within Logan County: * Red Lake Township — south * Starkey Township (defunct) — southwest corner * Bryant Township (defunct) — west * Glendale Township — northwest corner

References

Defunct townships in North Dakota Townships in Logan County, North Dakota Townships in North Dakota {{NorthDakota-geo-stub