Sure, are these sufficient?
From the Daily Bulldog, December 27, 2023, Rural Maine state representatives eye a seat in Washington, with Republican primaries in June 2024:
Michael Soboleski of Phillips currently represents Maine’s 73rd district in the state legislature, which includes the following towns: Carrabassett Valley; East Central Franklin; Kingfield; Wyman Township; Coplin Plantation; Dallas Plantation; Eustis; North Franklin; Phillips; Rangeley; Rangeley Plantation; Sandy River Plantation; West Central Franklin; Alder Stream Township; Coburn Gore Township; Jim Pond Township; Lang Township; Freeman Township; Madrid Township; Salem Township; Andover; Gilead; Lincoln Plantation; Magalloway Township; Newry; North Oxford; Upton; Adamstown Township; Andover North Surplus Township; Lower Cupsuptic Township; Lynchtown Township; Richardsontown Township; Riley Township; Dennistown Plantation; Highland Plantation; Jackman; Moose River; Northwest Somerset; The Forks Plantation; West Forks Plantation; Attean Township; Bowtown Township; Carrying Place Township; Dead River Township; Holeb Township; Pierce Pond Township; Raytown Township; Spring Lake Township; Upper Enchanted Township.
Or from thecount.me on June 16, 2022, where there’s a blurb about thefts in Bancroft Township:
BANCROFT TOWNSHIP — Tr. Saucier and Tr. Rider responded to a residence under construction in Bancroft when a neighbor reported there were multiple vehicles there stealing building materials. No one was at the property when troopers arrived. Tr. Saucier is working with the owner and the case remains under investigation.
BANCROFT TOWNSHIP — Tr. Saucier took a report from a New Hampshire resident complaining that his camp neighbor in Bancroft parked a trailer on his property and he wants it removed. Tr. Saucier is working on contacting the owner of the trailer.
Regarding:
I found this on Big Lake Township’s Facebook page:
In fact, I was surprised to find that even the so-called survey townships that you guys don’t like are signed at the town line in places where there’s actual roads running through them:
This is not a good argument. We’re not going to disqualify Maine township boundaries because someone in Illinois once tried to tag a dogcatcher district as a town. I’ve asked a few times in this thread for specific examples of analogous entities that would disqualify New England townships as administrative entities. I’m looking for examples where a named, bounded place has some or most of the following qualities:
- Is the primary administrative subdivision of a county or county equivalent
- Has fixed boundaries that don’t change with incorporation status (in other words, the act of incorporation does not carve its boundaries out of a larger area)
- Is roughly corresponding in relative size to other administrative subdivisions at the municipal level and does not overlap any other administrative subdivision at that level
- Receives all of its municipal services from a higher level administrative entity
- (Bonus points) has an established political process for establishing itself as an incorporated or semi-incorporated place.