Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Parish Grove Township
settlement_type = Township
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map_caption = Location of Parish Grove Township in Benton County


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Indiana
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Benton
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government_type = Indiana township
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established_title = Organized
established_date = July 1840

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area_total_km2 = 117.64
area_land_km2 = 117.6
area_water_km2 = 0.04
area_total_sq_mi = 45.42
area_land_sq_mi = 45.41
area_water_sq_mi = 0.01

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 267
population_density_km2 = 2.27
population_density_sq_mi = 5.88

timezone = EST
utc_offset = -5
timezone_DST = EDT
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elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_m = 227
elevation_ft = 745
latd = 40
latm = 36
lats = 28
latNS = N
longd = 87
longm = 27
longs = 25
longEW = W

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blank_info = 18-57942GR|2
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Parish Grove Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 267. It contains the unincorporated town of Freeland Park.

History

Parish Grove Township was one of the county's original three created in 1840.cite book
last = Birch
first = Jesse Setlington
title = History of Benton County and Historic Oxford
origyear = 1928
year = 1942
publisher = Craw & Craw, Inc.
location = Oxford, Indiana
pages = p. 40 ] The grove for which it's named grew close to the township's southeastern corner, near what is now the intersection of county roads 400 West and 300 South. [cite book
last = Andreas
first = Alfred Theodore
title = Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana
year = 1876
publisher = Baskin, Forster & Company
location = Chicago
chapter = Benton County ] It originally covered about convert|1000|acre|km2 and contained an abundant variety of trees, including oaks, walnuts, hickory, dogwood, haw, paw paw, sycamore, quaking ash, ironwood, water beach, elm, linn, poplar, ash, sassafras, locust, etc. As late as 1924 there were 37 varieties growing in the grove.

Parish Grove was home to a group of local Pottawatomie Indians led by Chief Parish (real name Pierre Moran), the son of French trader Constant Moran and a Kickapoo woman. Parish died on or around 1826 and is buried in the grove, though the grave is unmarked.cite book
last = Birch
first = Jesse Setlington
title = History of Benton County and Historic Oxford
origyear = 1928
year = 1942
publisher = Craw & Craw, Inc.
location = Oxford, Indiana
pages = p. 20 ]

Geography

Parish Grove Township covers an area of convert|45.42|mi2|km2; 0.01 square miles (0.02 percent) of this is water. Almost all of Parish Grove Township is open farmland, divided into roughly square mile blocks by regularly-spaced county roads. Its highest point, located in the extreme southeastern corner of the township, is convert|915|ft|m; the land slopes away and flattens to the northwest down to about convert|700|ft|m. Several small streams flow north and west toward Sugar Creek, including Mud Creek, Gretencord Ditch, Salmon Ditch, Finigan Ditch and Kult Ditch.

Unincorporated towns

* Dunnington
* Free
* Freeland Park

Adjacent townships

* Center (east)
* Grant (southeast)
* Hickory Grove (south)
* Richland (northeast)
* York (north)

Major highways

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References

* [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/ United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files]
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/ U.S. Board on Geographic Names]

External links

* [http://www.indianatownshipassoc.org/counties/Benton.htm Indiana Township Association page for Benton County]