Abstract: There are Town entries under every county record in Qingguoshi dilizhi and Qingshigao dilizhi. These entries do not follow strict standards. Actually，Town in the Qing Dynasty was not an institutional part of local management or an imposition for tax purposes. Settlements with concentrated population and flourishing trade were usually named towns. Some towns had institutional local security below counties，such as Xunjiansi (Patrol Office)，but Xunjiansi did not always located in places named towns. So，entries of town in the Qing Document should not be understood as a level of administration，and the so called boundary of towns was the area patrolled by the Xunjiansi seated there.