Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana

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Parish Grove Township
Location of Parish Grove Township in Benton County
Coordinates: 40°36′28″N 87°27′25″W / 40.60778, -87.45694
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Benton
Organized	July 1840
Area
- Total	45.42 sq mi (117.64 km²)
- Land	45.41 sq mi (117.6 km²)
- Water	0.01 sq mi (0.04 km²)
Elevation [1]	745 ft (227 m)
Population (2000)
- Total	267
- Density	5.88/sq mi (2.27/km²)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
FIPS code	18-57942[2]
GNIS feature ID	453706

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.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 2.1 Unincorporated towns 2.2 Adjacent townships 2.3 Major highways 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

Parish Grove Township was one of the county's original three created in 1840.^[3] 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.^[4] It originally covered about 1,000 acres 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.^[3]

[edit] Geography

Parish Grove Township covers an area of 45.42 square miles; 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 915 feet; the land slopes away and flattens to the northwest down to about 700 feet. Several small streams flow north and west toward Sugar Creek, including Mud Creek, Gretencord Ditch, Salmon Ditch, Finigan Ditch and Kult Ditch.

[edit] Unincorporated towns

• Dunnington
• Free
• Freeland Park

[edit] Adjacent townships

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

[edit] Major highways

• U.S. Route 41
• Indiana State Road 18
• Indiana State Road 71

[edit] References

• United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names

1. ^ US Board on Geographic Names. United States Geological Survey (2007-10-25). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
2. ^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
3. ^ ^{a b} Birch, Jesse Setlington [1928] (1942). History of Benton County and Historic Oxford. Oxford, Indiana: Craw & Craw, Inc., p. 40. 
4. ^ Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1876). "Benton County", Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana. Chicago: Baskin, Forster & Company. 

[edit] External links

• Indiana Township Association page for Benton County

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