Lee's Creek Township is one of thirty-seven

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 Washington County,

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...

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. As of the 2000 census, its total population was 640. Lee's Creek Township was established in 1880.

Geography

According to the

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, Johnson Township covers an area of , all land.

Devil's Den State Park Devil's Den State Park is a Arkansas state park in Washington County, near West Fork, Arkansas in the United States. The park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beginning in 1933. Devil's Den State Park is in the Lee Creek Valley in ...

makes up the southern tip of the township. The township was created from parts of Cove Creek Township and Crawford Township in 1880.

Cities, towns, villages

Blackburn Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...

Cemeteries

The township contains Blackburn Cemetery.

Major routes

* Interstate 540 * Arkansas 74

Arkansas Highway 74 Arkansas Highway 74 (AR 74 and Hwy. 74) is a series of state highways of total in Northwest and north central Arkansas and is divided into eight separate sections. Route description The westernmost section route begins in Devil's Den State P ...

Arkansas Highway 170 Arkansas Highway 170 (AR 170, Hwy. 170) is a designation for two state highways in Washington County, Arkansas. The main segment of runs from Devil's Den State Park to West Fork. A shorter segment of runs from U.S. Route 62 (US 6 ...

References

United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas

External links

{{authority control Townships in Washington County, Arkansas Populated places established in 1880 1880 establishments in Arkansas Townships in Arkansas