Hay Creek Township is a
civil township
A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county, most often in the northern and midwestern parts of the country. The term town is used in New England, New York, and Wisconsin to ref ...
in
Burleigh County in the
U.S. state of
North Dakota
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. As of the
2020 census, its population was 4,293.
The township is part of the
Bismarck-Mandan metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually com ...
.
History
A small rural community with the name Hay Creek sprang up in this township in the 1890s. Since that time, the city of
Bismarck has absorbed much of the township, including the remnants of the community of Hay Creek.
Demographics
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