El Dorado Township, Butler County, Kansas

El Dorado Township
Township
Location in Butler County
Coordinates: 37°48′00″N 096°51′36″W / 37.80000°N 96.86000°W / 37.80000; -96.86000Coordinates: 37°48′00″N 096°51′36″W / 37.80000°N 96.86000°W / 37.80000; -96.86000
Country	United States
State	Kansas
County	Butler
Area
• Total	54.74 sq mi (141.78 km2)
• Land	53.94 sq mi (139.7 km2)
• Water	0.8 sq mi (2.07 km2)  1.46%
Elevation	1,286 ft (392 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	1,700
• Density	31.5/sq mi (12.2/km2)
GNIS feature ID	0474388

El Dorado Township is a township in Butler County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,700.

Geography

El Dorado Township covers an area of 54.74 square miles (141.8 km²) and contains one incorporated settlement, El Dorado (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Belle Vista, Sunset Lawns and Walnut Valley Memorial Park.

The streams of Constant Creek, Sutton Creek and West Branch Walnut River run through this township.

Transportation

El Dorado Township contains one airport or landing strip, El Dorado Municipal Airport.

Further reading

References

• USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links

• City-Data.com

Municipalities and communities of Butler County, Kansas, United States County seat: El Dorado Cities Andover‡ Augusta Benton Cassoday Douglass Elbing El Dorado Latham Leon Potwin Rose Hill Towanda Whitewater CDP Rosalia Unincorporated communities Beaumont Bois d'Arc Brainerd De Graff Gordon Haverhill Keighley Lorena Midian Pontiac Wingate Ghost towns Oil Hill Townships Augusta Benton Bloomington Bruno Chelsea Clay Clifford Douglass El Dorado Fairmount Fairview Glencoe Hickory Lincoln Little Walnut Logan Milton Murdock Pleasant Plum Grove Prospect Richland Rock Creek Rosalia Spring Sycamore Towanda Union Walnut Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties