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Lake Township, Newton County, Indiana
Lake Township is one of ten townships in Newton County, Indiana Newton County is a county located near the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 14,244. This county is part of Northwest Indiana as well as the Chicago metropolitan area. The county seat is Kent .... As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,384 and it contained 1,006 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , all land. Unincorporated towns * Conrad at * Lake Village at * Sumava Resorts at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) References External links Indiana Township AssociationUnited Township Association of Indiana Townships in Newton County, Indiana Townships in Indiana {{NewtonCountyIN-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Township (United States)
A township in some states of the United States is a small geographic area. The term is used in three ways. #A survey township is simply a geographic reference used to define property location for deeds and grants as surveyed and platted by the General Land Office (GLO). A survey township is nominally six by six miles square, or 23,040 acres. #A civil township is a unit of local government, generally a civil division of a County (United States), county. Counties are the primary divisional entities in many U.S. states, states, thus the powers and organization of townships varies from state to state. Civil townships are generally given a name, sometimes written with the included abbreviation "Twp". #A charter township, found only in the state of Michigan, is similar to a civil township. Provided certain conditions are met, a charter township is mostly exempt from annexation to contiguous cities or villages, and carries additional rights and responsibilities of home rule. Survey towns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 219
Area code 219 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for Northwest Indiana, including the state's portion of the Chicago metropolitan area, which includes Lake, Porter, La Porte, Newton, and Jasper Counties. The area code includes the cities of Schererville, Chesterton, Lake Station, Lowell, Crown Point, Cedar Lake, Hobart, Whiting, Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Merrillville, Munster, Griffith, Highland, Portage, Valparaiso, Michigan City, Ogden Dunes, St. John, La Porte, DeMotte, Roselawn, Kouts, Lake Village, and Rensselaer. 219 is largely co-extensive with the Indiana side of the Chicago metropolitan area. Service is provided by AT&T, Frontier Communications, and Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company. History In 1947, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) published the first configuration of proposed numbering plan areas (NPAs) for a new nationwide numbering and toll call routing system. Indiana was divided to receive two area codes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumava Resorts, Indiana
Sumava Resorts is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Lake Township, Newton County, Indiana, Lake Township, Newton County, Indiana, Newton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Sumava Resorts was laid out in 1926. A post office has been in operation at the community since 1928. A group of Czechs in Chicago, Czech immigrants from Chicago formed the Sumava Forest Resorts Inc.. It was named for the Bohemian Forest, which in the Czech Republic is called the Šumava National Park, Šumava Forest. The resort became a weekend and summer resort for the Chicago Community. Special trains would bring the city folks out to Sumava and return each weekend. Lukes' Restaurant & Tavern on County Road N 250 W became the center of activities dining on duck, roast chicken, dumplings and kraut. The communities location along the Kankakee River meant that it has been plaqued by flooding. Three major floods occurred in 1950, 1967, and 1976. A levee break in 1993 brought nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
