Knobview Township is an inactive
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Crawford County Crawford County is the name of eleven counties in the United States:
* Crawford County, Arkansas
* Crawford County, Georgia
* Crawford County, Illinois
* Crawford County, Indiana
* Crawford County, Iowa
* Crawford County, Kansas
* Crawford County, ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
. It contains the
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
of
Indian Lake.
Knobview Township took its name from the community of
Rosati, Missouri
Rosati is an unincorporated community in northeast Phelps County, Missouri, United States. The community is adjacent to the Phelps- Crawford county line on Missouri Route KK four miles (6 km) east of St. James. This road is also the form ...
, formerly called Knobview.
It has a population of 1,813, and its residents tend to be politically conservative.
References
Townships in Missouri
Townships in Crawford County, Missouri
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