Prairie Home Township is one of fourteen

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in Cooper County,

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. As of the 2000 census, its population was 554.

Geography

According to the

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, Prairie Home Township covers an area of 33 square miles (85.46 square kilometers); of this, 32.97 square miles (85.39 square kilometers, 99.92 percent) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.07 square kilometers, 0.08 percent) is water.

Cities, towns, villages

* Prairie Home

Adjacent townships

* Saline Township (north) * Linn Township, Moniteau County (east) * North Moniteau Township (southwest) * Clark Fork Township (west)

Cemeteries

The township contains these five cemeteries: Ellis, Harris, New Salem, Providence and Robison.

Major highways

Missouri Route 87 Route 87 is a highway in central Missouri. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 54 in Eldon, and its northern terminus is at Route 5/240 in Glasgow. Parts of the road are overlapped by the Lewis and Clark Trail and Santa Fe Trail. Rout ...

School districts

* Boonville School District * Prairie Home R-V School District

Political districts

Missouri's 6th congressional district Missouri's 6th congressional district takes in a large swath of land in northern Missouri, stretching across nearly the entire width of the state from Kansas to Illinois. Its largest voting population is centered in the northern portion of the ...

* State House District 117 * State Senate District 21

References

United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)

United States National Atlas

External links

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