Greene Township is one of thirteen

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in St. Joseph County, in the

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. As of the 2000 census, its population was 3,040. Greene Township was established in 1836.

Geography

According to the

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, Greene Township covers an area of ; of this, (99.24 percent) is land and (0.76 percent) is water.

Adjacent townships

* Warren Township (north) * Portage Township (northeast) * Centre Township (east) * Union Township (southeast) * Liberty Township (southwest) * Lincoln Township, LaPorte County (west) * Olive Township (northwest)

Cemeteries

The township contains Sumption Prairie Cemetery. There is another township owned cemetery located on Pine road between Layton and Miller roads.

Major highways

Lakes

* Catfish Lake * Dollar Lake * Goodman Lake * Kale Lake * Sousley Lake

School districts

South Bend Community School Corporation South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC), located in South Bend, Indiana, is St. Joseph County's oldest and largest school corporation, and the fifth largest in the state. They have 30 schools and seven support facilities in a geographic ...

** Wilson Elementary School ** Residents are divided between Jackson Middle School and Navarro Middle School. ** Most areas are zoned to Washington High School while some are zoned to

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. Prior to 1930, there were several

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, numbering eight. On March 3, 1930, they consolidated into the Greene Township School. The original section became the western wing, as a grade 1-12 school. It had an enrollment exceeding 600 in the 1950s. It ended high school classes due to a lower number of students. By 2018 it became known as the Greene Intermediate Center and was operated by the South Bend school district. In 2018, when it closed, its enrollment was 181, with some of the students living in South Bend, and it was the district's final school in the township. At one point Hay Elementary School took a small portion of the township, but it closed in 2021. In 2018 residents of Greene Township began plans to join the

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and leave the South Bend corporation, partly because they had a negative view of the South Bend district and partly because the Greene Intermediate Center, the district's final school in the township, closed in 2018, with the parents anticipating a reopening under new management. At first the South Bend district did not approve of the plan, but in 2022 began talks on how to let Greene Township move to John Glenn.

Political districts

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* State House District 7 * State Senate District 9

References

United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)

IndianaMap

External links

Indiana Township Association

United Township Association of Indiana
* {{authority control Townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana South Bend – Mishawaka metropolitan area Townships in Indiana