At 07:50 AM 11/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:34:42AM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: > My parents live in: > Country: United States > State: Pennsylvania > County: Montgomery > Township: Upper Providence > Borough/Village: Collegeville > School District: Perkiomen ValleyMaybe you can explain something to me that I've never understood. What is the difference between a Township and a Burough/Village/Town? Both in terms of the definition, as well as the practical matters that it entails to those who live there. "Erik Reuter
Maybe John was taking a little poetic license. Every place that got incorporated, i.e. became a municipality, is now a borough or a city, officially. Also there are only two official 'towns'. So there is a specific governing body for these population dense areas. The rest of the state is divided into townships. You either have one or the other governing you, not both. (Now services are a separate deal. You can be on a boroughs water line, get served by their police, but you still pay taxes to the township.
Within the townships there may be other population dense areas called something, but they are not governed places. Usually they are called villages. The name is mostly for post office designation. Across the river there is a place called Goldsboro, but the post office is called Etters. Another example is Hershey, PA. There is no borough or city called Hershey, it's just the post office name of an area in Derry Township. (It could at least been Dairy Township). A tee shot from me is a place called Royalton. They use my post office and electricity, their township's police. If someone is looking for an address, they better say Royalton before I know to point across the bridge. But otherwise the place doesn't exist.
And school districts. They know no county lines. There are 512 school districts in the state, some take up portions of many counties, (67 counties) others are small inside a city.
Kevin T.
And they all want money money money
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