Definition of "townsite" [townsite]

• A tract of land authorized to be developed as a town and then surveyed and marked out with streets (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Higher densities would be allowed in the existing townsite, which is 120 acres, plus 1,000 acres of adjacent uplands."
• "Goaded by two Wobbly speakers, four hundred workers from both shifts repaired to the Anderson Brothers mess hall, where they voted to strike, elected a committee to draw up a list of demands, and dispatched a delegation to pass the word to the work camps situated around the Boulder City townsite."
• "As the spring of 1931 turned to summer, the townsite taking shape at the crown of the wash looked to the residents occupying its base in Ragtown like a mirage."