Nineveh Township is one of ten

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in Adair County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,289. It contains the

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of Connelsville. The township is named from the town of

Nineveh Nineveh ( ; , ''URUNI.NU.A, Ninua''; , ''Nīnəwē''; , ''Nīnawā''; , ''Nīnwē''), was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul (itself built out of the Assyrian town of Mepsila) in northern ...

, a German communistic colony that was established in the area in about 1850.

Geography

Nineveh Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, Novinger. It contains two cemeteries: Nineveh and Novinger. The streams of Brush Creek, Davis Branch, Hazel Creek, Little Hazel Creek, Mulberry Creek, Rye Creek, Shuteye Creek and Spring Creek run through this township.

References

USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links

German-American culture in Missouri Townships in Adair County, Missouri Kirksville micropolitan area, Missouri Townships in Missouri 1850 establishments in Missouri {{AdairCountyMO-geo-stub