Richland Township, Benton County, Indiana

Richland Township
—  Township  —
Location of Richland Township in Benton County
Coordinates:
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Benton
Organized	December 1868
Government
• Type	Indiana township
Area
• Total	35.97 sq mi (93.15 km2)
• Land	35.94 sq mi (93.09 km2)
• Water	0.03 sq mi (0.07 km2)
Elevation[1]	781 ft (238 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	709
• Density	19.73/sq mi (7.62/km2)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
FIPS code	18-63990[2]
GNIS feature ID	453789

Richland Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 709. Its name is a "reference to the rich land within its borders."^[3]

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

Geography

Richland Township covers an area of 35.97 square miles (93.2 km²); 0.03 square miles (0.078 km²) (0.08 percent) of this is water.

Cities and towns

• Earl Park

Adjacent townships

• Center (southeast)
• Parish Grove (southwest)
• Union (east)
• York (west)
• Grant Township, Newton County (northeast)
• Jefferson Township, Newton County (northwest)

Major highways

• U.S. Route 41
• U.S. Route 52

Cemeteries

The township contains three cemeteries: Dehner, Earl Park and Saint John.

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. 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.. p. 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