Since Ohio has a law concerning disolving villages, lets put it to use.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Some folks are threatening to use the so-called "New Rome Law" on another community in Central Ohio.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/15/orient-facing-elimination.html

[mgk920]

There are some here in Wisconsin that such a law could well be used on, too.  And here, I'd expand such a law to include the townships.

Mike

[vtk]

What would happen if a township dissolves? Would it become part of an adjacent township, perhaps chosen by voters?

[triplemultiplex]

Wow that's so weird.  I recently completed a map that has Orient, Ohio on it.  It certainly did strike me as an extremely small town to be incorporated.  I actually noticed the large speed humps that were mentioned in the article on aerial photographs.  And no offense to anyone who lives there, but from the air, it looks pretty trashy.  Lots of lawns covered in disabled vehicles and other crap.

Per the last census, Wisconsin has 8 incorporated places with less than 100 people; mostly Up North.  But at the same time, one of our most popular tourist destinations, Minocqua, is unincorporated.  There are traffic signals, four lane divided roadways and even one-way streets. Go figure.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Wow that's so weird.  I recently completed a map that has Orient, Ohio on it.  It certainly did strike me as an extremely small town to be incorporated.  I actually noticed the large speed humps that were mentioned in the article on aerial photographs.  And no offense to anyone who lives there, but from the air, it looks pretty trashy.  Lots of lawns covered in disabled vehicles and other crap.

No worse than Marengo, Sparta, or Fulton up here in Morrow County. (30-40 miles north of Columbus)

[Brandon]

What would happen if a township dissolves? Would it become part of an adjacent township, perhaps chosen by voters?

Beats me.  In Illinois, a township, by definition, is unincorporated.

[mgk920]

Wow that's so weird.  I recently completed a map that has Orient, Ohio on it.  It certainly did strike me as an extremely small town to be incorporated.  I actually noticed the large speed humps that were mentioned in the article on aerial photographs.  And no offense to anyone who lives there, but from the air, it looks pretty trashy.  Lots of lawns covered in disabled vehicles and other crap.

Per the last census, Wisconsin has 8 incorporated places with less than 100 people; mostly Up North.  But at the same time, one of our most popular tourist destinations, Minocqua, is unincorporated.  There are traffic signals, four lane divided roadways and even one-way streets. Go figure.

I have always thought that the Minocqua-Woodruff area (the whole area, including Woodruff, is unincorporated) should be incorporated as a 'City of Lakeland', with such city to include a broad area of lakes and resort areas that surrounds it, perhaps to be the largest land-area city in the state.

Mike