Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County, Indiana

Sugar Creek Township
Township
Location of Sugar Creek Township in Clinton County
Location of Sugar Creek Township in Clinton County
Coordinates: 40°13′53″N 86°17′12″W / 40.23139°N 86.28667°W / 40.23139; -86.28667
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyClinton
Organized1841
Government
 • TypeIndiana township
Area
 • Total25.84 sq mi (66.9 km2)
 • Land25.84 sq mi (66.9 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation
[1]
919 ft (280 m)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total456
 • Density18/sq mi (6.8/km2)
FIPS code18-73862[3]
GNIS feature ID453881

Sugar Creek Township is one of fourteen townships in Clinton County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 456 (slightly up from 450 at 2010[4]) and it contained 207 housing units. The township is named for the stream that flows southwest through it.[5]

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.[6]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 25.84 square miles (66.9 km2), all land.[4]

Unincorporated towns

Adjacent townships

Major highways

References

  • United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files
  • U.S. Board on Geographic Names
  • 2010 Census information
  1. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ^ "Census Bureau profile: Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County, Indiana". United States Census Bureau. May 2023. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  3. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  4. ^ a b "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
  5. ^ Claybaugh, Joseph (1913). History of Clinton County, Indiana. Indianapolis: A. W. Bowen & Company. pp. 32.
  6. ^ Claybaugh, Joseph (1913). "Sugar Creek Township". History of Clinton County, Indiana. Indianapolis: A. W. Bowen & Company.
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