Point Township is one of ten

townships A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

Posey County, Indiana Posey County is the southernmost, southwesternmost, and westernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Indiana. Its southern border is formed by the Ohio River, and its western border by the Wabash River, a tributary to the Ohi ...

. As of the 2020 census, its population was 306. The lowest, the southernmost, and the westernmost points in Indiana are all located along the township's boundaries.

History

Point Township was organized in 1822. The township was so named for the fact the southernmost point in the county and state is contained within its borders. The

Ashworth Archaeological Site The Ashworth Archaeological Site is a significant archaeological site in the extreme southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Indiana. Located near the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, it lies near several similar archaeological sites ...

, Hovey Lake Archaeological District, and Murphy Archeological Site are listed on the

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Adjacent Townships

Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

Posey County Posey County is the southernmost, southwesternmost, and westernmost county in the U.S. state of Indiana. Its southern border is formed by the Ohio River, and its western border by the Wabash River, a tributary to the Ohio. As of 2020, the popul ...

*** Black Township (North) *

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** Gallatin County *** New Haven Township (West) ** White County *** Emma Township (Northwest) *

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** Union County *** Uniontown District

Unincorporated Places

* Hovey * Oak Grove

Education

It is within the Metropolitan School District of Mt. Vernon,
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Archaeology

Point Township is the location of many significant

archaeological sites An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...

. Among the leading ones are Ashworth in the township's northeast, Bone Bank along the

Wabash River The Wabash River () is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 river that drains most of the state of Indiana, and a significant part of Illinois, in the United ...

in the west,Adams, William R. ''Archaeological Notes on Posey County Indiana''.

Indianapolis Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion ...

: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1949, 70. and

Murphy Murphy is an Irish surname meaning "Sea Warrior". Origins and variants The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: "Ó Murchadha"/"Ó Murchadh" (descendant of "Murchadh"), and "Mac Murchaidh"/" Mac Murchadh" (son of "Murchadh") derived ...

, Hovey Lake-Klein, and Welborn in the south central.

References

External links

Indiana Township Association

United Township Association of Indiana
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