Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County, Indiana

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Sugar Creek Township
settlement_type = Township
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map_caption = Location of Sugar Creek Township in Clinton County


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Indiana
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Clinton
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government_type = Indiana township
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established_title = Organized
established_date = 1841

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area_total_km2 = 66.93
area_land_km2 = 66.93
area_water_km2 = 0
area_total_sq_mi = 25.84
area_land_sq_mi = 25.84
area_water_sq_mi = 0

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 486
population_density_km2 = 7.26
population_density_sq_mi = 18.81

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elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_m = 280
elevation_ft = 919
latd = 40
latm = 13
lats = 53
latNS = N
longd = 86
longm = 17
longs = 12
longEW = W

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blank_info = 18-73862GR|2
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Sugar Creek Township is one of fourteen townships in Clinton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 486. The township is named for the stream that flows southwest through it.cite book
last=Claybaugh
first=Joseph
title=History of Clinton County, Indiana
year=1913
publisher=A. W. Bowen & Company
location=Indianapolis
pages=p. 32]

History

The first settler in the area of Sugar Creek Township was Williams Harris, who arrived in 1828, built a cabin and hunted and fished in the wilderness — he was the only white inhabitant for four years, until the arrival of farmer Abner Dunn and his family in 1832, then Merrill Cooper and blacksmith W. V. McKinney in 1835. Though originally slow, settlement in the township increased in the 1840s and by 1850 its population was 477; by 1860 it was 719, in 1870 it was 964, and in 1880 it was 1410.

The area's residents petitioned in 1841 for their own township, a request granted by the county commissioners who formed Sugar Creek Township from a portion of Jackson.cite book
last=Claybaugh
first=Joseph
title=History of Clinton County, Indiana
year=1913
publisher=A. W. Bowen & Company
location=Indianapolis
chapter=Sugar Creek Township]

Geography

Sugar Creek Township covers an area of 25.84 square miles.

Unincorporated towns

* Pickard

Adjacent townships

* Johnson Township (north)
* Jefferson Township, Tipton County (east)
* Adams Township, Hamilton County (southeast)
* Marion Township, Boone County (south)
* Kirklin Township (west)

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/Clinton.htm Indiana Township Association page for Clinton County]