Union Township is one of ten

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 ...

Gibson County, Indiana Gibson County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 33,503. The county seat is Princeton. History In 1787, the fledgling United States defined the Northwest T ...

. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,197 and it contained 1,779 housing units, more than 90% of which live either within or in areas adjacent to the town of Fort Branch. Fort Branch is the township seat. Nearly all of the

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana (TMMI) is an automobile manufacturing factory located in Gibson County, Indiana, nearly halfway between Princeton and Fort Branch, and mostly in Union Township. It is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America ...

Complex is located within Union Township. Union Township was established in 1890.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.76%) is land and (or 0.24%) is water.

Cities and towns

Fort Branch Fort Branch was a fort built by the Confederate Army especially to defend against attacks from the Union Army along the Roanoke River in North Carolina. The fort was originally built in 1862 along Rainbow Banks in Martin County, southeast of H ...

Unincorporated towns

* Durham (extinct) * Fort Gibson (extinct) * Snake Run

Adjacent townships

* Patoka Township (north) * Center Township (northeast) * Barton Township (east) * Johnson Township (south) * Montgomery Township (west)

Cemeteries

The township contains three cemeteries: Durham, Mount Mariah and Walnut Hill.

Major highways

Interstate 69 Interstate 69 (I-69) is an Interstate Highway in the United States currently consisting of 10 unconnected segments with an original continuous segment from Indianapolis, Indiana, northeast to the Canadian border in Port Huron, Michigan, at ...

; Traverses the southeastern corner of the township * US 41

U.S. Route 41 U.S. Route 41, also U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples to Miami, ...

; Bisects the township from south to north * indiana 168

State Road 168; bisects the township from west to east.

Education

Union Township is the center of the

South Gibson School Corporation The South Gibson School Corporation is the largest of the three public school governing institutions in both enrollment and territory covered in Gibson County, Indiana as well as one of the ten largest in enrollment in Southwestern Indiana. The ...

Public schools

* Fort Branch Community School *

Gibson Southern High School Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located in Fort Branch, Indiana. Academics Gibson Southern High School received the Indiana Four Star School Award for seven consecutive years. Athletics In 1974, Gibson Southern was origina ...

Higher Education

Vincennes University Vincennes University (VU) is a public college with its main campus in Vincennes, Indiana. Founded in 1801 as Jefferson Academy, VU is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Indiana. VU was chartered in 1806 as the Indiana Terri ...

Advanced Manufacturing Campus

Private schools

* Holy Cross Catholic Academy - Fort Branch

References

U.S. Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)

United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files

External links

Indiana Township Association

United Township Association of Indiana
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