It is represented on the Gaston County Board of Commissioners by Allen Fraley of Cherryville.

[4] Voting-age population figures from the 2000 Census are reported for each of the township's five voting precincts.

Three of the precincts are in the northwestern part of the township near Cherryville, one in the south near Tryon, and one in the northeast near Landers Chapel Methodist Church.

These watersheds are in the Broad River catchment basin and most of their area is in Cleveland County.

Highway 274 / Mountain Street generally follows the watershed separating the catchment basins of the Broad and Catawba rivers.

Long Creek flows east through Bessemer City, Dallas, and Gastonia before emptying into the South Fork Catawba River in Ranlo.

Finally, a small area in the far northeastern corner of the township is in the Hoyle Creek watershed.

Students in southern parts of the township go to Bessemer City High School and far eastern parts to North Gaston High School in Dallas[9] Saint Mark's Lutheran Church (ELCA), located about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the City of Cherryville, is one of the oldest churches in the township and is among the older Lutheran congregations in the entire Piedmont area (and in the Lutheran Synod of North Carolina).