Clear Creek Township is one of eleven

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in Monroe County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,000 and it contained 2,674 housing units.

History

Joseph Mitchell House was listed on the

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in 1986.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 81.45%) is land and (or 18.55%) is water.

Unincorporated towns

* Fairfax at *

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at * Smithville at * Smithville-Sanders (part) (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Monroe County's Clear Creek Town is ''not'' located in Clear Creek Township, but rather in Perry Township, just north of Clear Creek Township's border. Both the town and the township are named after the same eponymous creek, which flows from the north to the south through both of them.

Cemeteries

Clear Creek Township Trustee's Office (Township Government) operates three active cemeteries, which includes the marking and selling of plots, marking for headstones, meeting with family members and marking burial sites for their family member, all maintenance, mowing and trimming, filling in grave sites, removing funeral floral arrangements, leveling and sowing grass seed and straw, cleaning up after rain and/or wind storms which blow flowers off grave sites. Clear Creek Township Trustee's Office (Township Government) has an additional 26 cemeteries in the township. Four cemeteries were moved due to the construction of Lake Monroe. Deeds are recorded in office of the Recorder of Monroe County. Thelma Kelley Jeffries is the trustee of the township. Clear Creek Township contains 29 cemeteries.

Major highways

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School districts

* Monroe County Community School Corporation

Political districts

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* State House District 60 * State Senate District 44

References

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United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

IndianaMap

External links

Clear Creek Township Government page

Indiana Township Association

United Township Association of Indiana

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