Mazon Township is one of seventeen

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 Grundy County,

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. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,487 and it contained 621 housing units.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 98.99%) is land and (or 1.01%) is water.

Cities, towns, villages

Mazon Mazon may refer to: Places in the United States * Mazon, Illinois, a village * Mazon Creek fossils * Mazon River * Mazon station, Mazon, Illinois * Mazon Township, Grundy County, Illinois Organizations * MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a no ...

Cemeteries

The township contains these four cemeteries: Brookside, Old Mazon, Ward and Wheeler.

Major highways

Illinois Route 47 Illinois Route 47 (IL 47) is a largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 near Hebron, to IL 10, just south of Interstate 72 (I-72) near Seymour. IL 47 is in primarily rural ...

Airports and landing strips

* J B Fillman Airport

Demographics

School districts

* Coal City Community Unit School District 1

Political districts

Illinois' 11th congressional district The 11th congressional district of Illinois is represented by Democrat Bill Foster. Geographic boundaries 2011 redistricting From 1865 to 1867, the district included Bureau, LaSalle, Livingston and Woodford counties. From 1901 until 1947 th ...

* State House District 75 * State Senate District 38

References

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United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas

External links

{{authority control Townships in Grundy County, Illinois Townships in Illinois 1849 establishments in Illinois