Silver Creek Township is a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
in
Stephenson County
Stephenson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 47,711. Its county seat is Freeport.
Stephenson County is included in the Freeport, IL Micropolitan Statist ...
,
Illinois
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. As of the 2010 census, its population was 696 and it contained 332 housing units.
Geography
Silver Creek is Townships 26 and 27 (part) North, Range 8 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian.
Silver Creek Township is located at at an elevation of . According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.94%) is land and (or 0.06%) is water.
Silver Creek Township borders the city of
Freeport Freeport, a variant of free port, may refer to:
Places United States
*Freeport, California
*Freeport, Florida
*Freeport, Illinois
*Freeport, Indiana
*Freeport, Iowa
*Freeport, Kansas
*Freeport, Maine, a New England town
**Freeport (CDP), Maine, the ...
, the county seat of Stephenson County, to the northwest.
History
Thomas Craine first settled Silver Creek Township in August 1835.
Mills
Brown's Mill was built four miles east of Freeport on the Pecatonica River by Caleb W. Brown in 1857. The stone grist mill closed in 1903 and was converted to a power plant by A.J. Goddard in 1908. For a short time it generated power for the street car system in Freeport. After a fire in 1950 partially destroyed the building it was rebuilt and converted to a residence. It was still standing on Brown's Mill Road in 2014.
[''History of Stephenson County 1970''. Freeport, Illinois: County of Stephenson, 1972. p. 196, illus.]
Demographics
As of the
census of 2000,
there were 739 people, 293 households, and 219 families in Silver Creek Township.
References
External links
Stephenson County Official Site
Townships in Stephenson County, Illinois
Townships in Illinois
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