Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana

Grant Township
—  Township  —
Location of Grant Township in Benton County
Coordinates:
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Benton
Organized	December 1868
Named for	Ulysses Grant
Government
• Type	Indiana township
Area
• Total	35.9 sq mi (92.98 km2)
• Land	35.89 sq mi (92.96 km2)
• Water	0.01 sq mi (0.02 km2)
Elevation[1]	751 ft (229 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	1,142
• Density	31.82/sq mi (12.28/km2)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
FIPS code	18-28818[2]
GNIS feature ID	453334

Grant Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,142. It was organized in December 1868 and was named for Ulysses Grant.^[3]

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Cities and towns 1.2 Unincorporated towns 1.3 Adjacent townships 1.4 Major highways 1.5 Cemeteries 1.6 Education 2 References 3 External links

Geography

Grant Township covers an area of 35.9 square miles (93 km²); 0.01 square miles (0.026 km²) (0.03 percent) of this is water.

Cities and towns

• Boswell

Unincorporated towns

• Chase

Adjacent townships

• Center (northeast)
• Hickory Grove (west)
• Oak Grove (east)
• Parish Grove (northwest)
• Pine Township, Warren County (southeast)
• Prairie Township, Warren County (southwest)

Major highways

• U.S. Route 41
• Indiana State Road 352

Cemeteries

The township contains three cemeteries: Boswell, Perigo and Smith.

Education

• Benton Community School Corporation

References

• "Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:453334. Retrieved 2009-09-24. 
• United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files

1. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. http://geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
2. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
3. ^ Birch, Jesse Setlington (1942) [1928]. History of Benton County and Historic Oxford. Oxford, Indiana: Craw & Craw, Inc.. pp. 21. 

External links

• Indiana Township Association
• United Township Association of Indiana

Municipalities and communities of Benton County, Indiana, USA County seat: Fowler Towns Ambia Boswell Earl Park Fowler Otterbein‡ Oxford Townships Bolivar Center Gilboa Grant Hickory Grove Oak Grove Parish Grove Pine Richland Union York Unincorporated communities Atkinson Barce Chase Dunn Dunnington Free Freeland Park Handy Lochiel Raub Swanington Talbot Templeton Wadena Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties