Lincoln Township is a former
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 ...
of
Emmons 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
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. The township recorded a population of 28 during the
2000 Census.
History
Lincoln township existed briefly as a school township with a population of 153 during the
1920 Census
The 1920 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau during one month from January 5, 1920, determined the resident population of the United States to be 106,021,537, an increase of 15.0 percent over the 92,228,496 persons enumerated d ...
, but was counted as part of
survey township
A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's Dominion Land Survey is a nominally-square area of land that is nominally six survey miles (a ...
T135 North, R75 West, in subsequent censuses. It was later organized as a civil township from 1981 until 2007, when the area was added the
unorganized territory of
North Emmons.
References
External links
U.S. Census map of Campbell Township during the 2000 Census
Defunct townships in North Dakota
Former townships in Emmons County, North Dakota
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