Lotts Creek Township, Kossuth County, Iowa

Lotts Creek Township is a township in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States.

History

Lotts Creek Township (formerly Lott's Creek with apostrophe s) was organized in 1873.^[1] Lotts Creek Township takes its name from the Lotts Creek, which in turn was named for Henry Lott, the figure made notorious for murdering Sidominadotah and Sidominadotah's family^[2] in the Spirit Lake Massacre.

References

↑ History of Kossuth, Hancock, and Winnebago Counties, Iowa. Union Publishing Company. 1884. p. 499.
↑ Reed, Benjamin F. (1913). History of Kossuth County, Iowa, Volume 1. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 635.

Municipalities and communities of Kossuth County, Iowa, United States

County seat: Algona

Cities	Algona Bancroft Burt Fenton Lakota Ledyard Lone Rock Lu Verne‡ Swea City Titonka Wesley West Bend‡ Whittemore

Townships	Buffalo Burt Cresco Eagle Fenton Garfield German Grant Greenwood Harrison Hebron Irvington Ledyard Lincoln Lotts Creek Lu Verne Plum Creek Portland Prairie Ramsey Riverdale Seneca Sherman Springfield Swea Union Wesley Whittemore

CDPs	Irvington Sexton St. Benedict St. Joseph

Unincorporated communities	Galbraith Gerled

Ghost town	Plum Creek

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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