Bradford Township is one of twelve
townships
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in
Chickasaw County,
Iowa
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,
United States
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. As of the
2000 census, its population was 2,140.
History
Bradford Township is named for Chief Bradford of the
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is ...
people.
Geography
Bradford Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement,
Nashua. According to the
USGS
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, it contains five cemeteries: Cagley, Greenwood, Oak Hill, Pearl Rock Catholic and Saint Michaels.
The streams of
Little Cedar River and Twomile Creek run through this township.
Transportation
Bradford Township contains two airports or landing strips: Clevelands Landing Strip and Harrison Landing Strip.
Notes
References
USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
External links
Townships in Chickasaw County, Iowa
Townships in Iowa
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