Sugar Creek Township is one of fourteen
townships
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in
Clinton County, Indiana
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 33,190. The county seat is Frankfort.
History
Clinton County officially came into existence on March 1, 1830, and was named in honor of DeWitt Cli ...
. As of the 2020 census, its population was 456 (slightly up from 450 at 2010
) and it contained 207 housing units.
The township is named for the stream that flows southwest through it.
History
The first settler in the area of Sugar Creek Township was Williams Harris, who arrived in 1828, built a cabin and hunted and fished in the wilderness — he was the only white inhabitant for four years, until the arrival of farmer Abner Dunn and his family in 1832, then Merrill Cooper and blacksmith W. V. McKinney in 1835. Though originally slow, settlement in the township increased in the 1840s and by 1850 its population was 477; by 1860 it was 719, in 1870 it was 964, and in 1880 it was 1410.
The area's residents petitioned in 1841 for their own township, a request granted by the county commissioners who formed Sugar Creek Township from a portion of
Jackson
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.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , all land.
Unincorporated towns
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Pickard
Adjacent townships
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Johnson Township (north)
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Jefferson Township, Tipton County (east)
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Adams Township, Hamilton County (southeast)
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Marion Township, Boone County (south)
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Kirklin Township (west)
Major highways
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Indiana State Road 28
State Road 28 is an east–west road in central Indiana in the United States that crosses the entire state from east to west, covering a distance of about and passing about to the north of the state capital of Indianapolis.
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Indiana State Road 38
State Road 38 (SR 38) in the U.S. state of Indiana serves as a connection between Lafayette in the west and Richmond in the east.
Route description
SR 38 begins in Lafayette at the intersections of Sagamore Parkway and Main Stre ...
References
United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary filesU.S. Board on Geographic Names2010 Census information
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Townships in Clinton County, Indiana
Townships in Indiana
1841 establishments in Indiana
Populated places established in 1841