Shawnee Township is one of ten

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in Cape Girardeau County,

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. As of the 2000 census, its population was 3,460. It contains the

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of Shawneetown. Shawnee Township was established in 1848, and named after the

Shawnee Indians The Shawnee ( ) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohi ...

Geography

Shawnee Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement,

Pocahontas Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. S ...

. Known cemeteries include Apple Creek (near Apple Creek Presbyterian in Pocahontas), Bennett, Born, Draby, Fleming, Grammer, Hays/Cotter/Bray, High Hill Church, Kiennenger, Kirby/McCain, Klosterman, Ludwig/New Jerusalem, McLain’s Chapel/Indian Creek, Miller at Fruitland, Neely’s Landing, New Bethel Baptist (at Pocahontas), New New Wells, Pleasant Hill, Princess Otakhi’s grave, St. John’s Lutheran Church old and new at New Wells, St. John’s at Pocahontas, Shiloh, Trinity Lutheran at Shawneetown, Zion Lutheran at Pocahontas. The streams of

Blue Shawnee Creek Blue Shawnee Creek is a stream located in Cape Girardeau County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The Blue Shawnee and the Muddy Shawnee Creek merge to form the Shawnee Creek.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 58, T ...

, Buckeye Creek, Duskin Creek, Flatrock Creek, Indian Creek, Little Indian Creek, Lovejoy Creek, Muddy Shawnee Creek, Neelys Creek, Opossum Creek, Shawnee Creek and Turkey Creek run through this township.

References

USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links

Townships in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area Townships in Missouri {{CapeGirardeauCountyMO-geo-stub