Dixon Township was a
township
A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
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 ...
,
North Dakota
North Dakota ( ) is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota people, Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minneso ...
, United States.
The former township government was disbanded in 2001, and the area was designated by the
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...
as
Dixon Unorganized Territory.
[
] It later was merged into the
West Logan Unorganized Territory.
As of the
2000 census the township's population was 17; it covered an
area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...
containing of land and of water, and it was located at . The
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...
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
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