Papineau Township is one of twenty-six

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 Iroquois County,

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. As of the 2010 census, its population was 499 and it contained 204 housing units. Originally named Weygandt by early Dutch settlers, the township name was changed in 1862 by later French-Canadian settlers to Papineau, after the Québec nationalist hero of the 1830s

Louis-Joseph Papineau Louis-Joseph Papineau (October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the ''seigneurie de la Petite-Nation''. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower ...

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.49%) is land and (or 0.51%) is water.

Cities, towns, villages

* Papineau

Cemeteries

The township contains these four cemeteries: Jones, Oak Ridge, Papineau and Saint Joseph.

Major highways

Illinois Route 1 Illinois Route 1 (IL 1) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Illinois. Running parallel to the Indiana border, the highway starts at the free ferry crossing to Kentucky at Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River and runs north to the south sid ...

Demographics

School districts

* Donovan Community Unit School District 3

Political districts

Illinois's 15th congressional district The 15th congressional district of Illinois is currently located in central Illinois. It was located in eastern and southeastern Illinois until 2022. It is currently represented by Republican Mary Miller. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index ra ...

* State House District 79 * State Senate District 40

References

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United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas

External links

{{Iroquois County, Illinois Townships in Iroquois County, Illinois 1855 establishments in Illinois Populated places established in 1855 Townships in Illinois