Belmont Township is one of twenty-six

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

in Iroquois County,

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...

, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,610 and it contained 1,188 housing units.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , all land.

Cities, towns, villages

Watseka Watseka or Watchekee (c. 1810–1878) was a Potawatomi Native American woman, born in Illinois, and named for the heroine of a Potawatomi legend. Her uncle was Tamin, the chief of the Kankakee Potawatomi Indians. She was also known by the ...

(south half) *

Woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see ...

Unincorporated towns

* Coaler at * Woodland Junction at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)

Cemeteries

The township contains these four cemeteries: Belmont, Body, Iroquois Memorial Park and Keen.

Major highways

Illinois Route 1 Illinois Route 1 (IL 1) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Illinois. Running parallel to the Indiana border, the highway starts at the free ferry crossing to Kentucky at Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River and runs north to the south sid ...

Airports and landing strips

* Newman Landing Strip

Landmarks

* Legion Park

Demographics

School districts

* Iroquois County Community Unit School District 9

Political districts

Illinois's 15th congressional district The 15th congressional district of Illinois is currently located in central Illinois. It was located in eastern and southeastern Illinois until 2022. It is currently represented by Republican Mary Miller. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index r ...

* State House District 105 * State Senate District 53

References

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United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas

External links

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