Alipur Chatha is a town and one of the 36 union councils of Wazirabad Tehsil

Wazirabad Tehsil

Wazirabad is an administrative subdivision of Gujranwala District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The tehsil is headquartered at the city of Wazirabad and is administratively subdivided into 36 Union Councils.-History:...

 of Gujranwala District

Gujranwala District

Gujranwala District is a district in Punjab, Pakistan.- History :The village of Asarur which has been identified as the location of Taki, an ancient town, visited by the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsiang contains immense ruins of Buddhist origin...

 in the Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. It contains ruins of the historical city of Akālgarh

Akalgarh, Pakistan

Akalgarh is a town of Gujranwala District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°16'0N 73°49'0E with an altitude of 193 metres .-History:...

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History

The municipality was created in 1867 during colonial rule

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

. The town lies on the Wazirabad

Wazirabad

AYAZ KHANWazirabad is an industrial city located in Gujranwala District, Punjab, Pakistan. Wazirabad is situated on the banks of the Chenab River nearly 100 kilometres north of Lahore on the Grand Trunk Road. It is 45 kilometres from Sialkot, 30 kilometres from the district capital - Gujranwala...

-Lyallpur

Faisalabad

Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...

 branch of the North-Western Railway. The population according to the 1901 census was 4,961.

The town was the residence of a family of Khattris

Khatri

Khatri is a caste from the northern Indian subcontinent. Khatris in India are mostly from Punjab, region but later they migrated to regions like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu, Uttarkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber...

 of the Chopra

Chopra

Chopra is a Punjabi Khatri family name.- Etymology and historical references :Chopra is a Punjabi Khatri clan and belongs to the Bara-Ghar Khatri section....

 clan, to which belonged the Diwan Sawan Mal and his son Mulraj, governors of Multan in the later days of Sikh rule.

Once in old days the city was walled and it have gates, there is only one gate present now a days named as "Paki Deohri". The inner city is full fascinating architects of Sikhs and hindus. Wood crafted gates are marvelous in some havilies (houses). At present the city is expanding, new localities are being nourishing. However the old city is still a hub of business. Mostly, all the neighboring villagers come here for shopping of all kinds of things.

In old days outside the city were many ponds used as water reservoir. One of them is now a days known as "Purana Talab" and other one was called "bara Dari".

Geography

Alipur Chatha is located at an elevation of 418 m (1374 ft). It is situated nearly 37 km away in west from the Gujranwala

Gujranwala

Gujranwala is a industrial city in the north-east of the Punjab province. It is the sixth largest city in Pakistan with a population of approximately 2,661,360 as on 24 June 2011...

, 16 km in north from Hafizabad

Hafizabad

Hafizabad is a city and tehsil of Hafizabad District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is situated at 32° 4′ N. and 73° 41′ E.- History :...

 and 6 km in south from Rasulnagar

Rasulnagar

Rasulnagar is a town and Union council of Gujranwala District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°20'0N 73°47'0E with an altitude of 197 metres and is part of Wazirabad Tehsil.-History:...

 and Chenab River

Chenab River

The Chenab River چنRiver' آب) is a major river of Jammu and Kashmir and the Punjab in Pakistan. It forms in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows through the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir into the plains of the Punjab, Pakistan...

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The main crops of the town are rice, wheat, sugar cane and maize. Famous for inland fishery, approximately 35,000 acres (140 km²) of land are covered by fish ponds.