Washington Township is one of ten
townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in
Gibson County, Indiana
Gibson County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 33,011. The county seat is Princeton.
History
In 1787, the fledgling United States defined the Northw ...
. As of the 2020 census, its population was 731 (down from 785 at 2010
) and it contained 326 housing units. Like Wabash Township, Washington Township also has no organized seat within the township, despite its two corporation-worthy towns Mount Olympus and Wheeling. Patoka, in White River Township, serves as the seat.
Washington Township was organized in 1824, and named for President
George Washington
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.
History
The
Trippett-Glaze-Duncan-Kolb Farm was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1993, with a boundary increase in 2009.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 98.78%) is land and (or 1.20%) is water.
Point of Interest
Unincorporated towns
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Giro (Buena Vista)
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Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (, , ) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa (regional unit), Larissa and Pieria (regional ...
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Oatsville
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Wheeling
Adjacent townships
Gibson County
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Center Township (south)
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Patoka Township (southwest)
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White River Township (west)
Knox County
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Johnson Township (north)
Pike County
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Clay Township (northeast)
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Logan Township (east)
Cemeteries
The township contains five cemeteries: Armstrong, Kirk, Kirk-McRoberts, Phillips and Richardson.
Major highways
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Indiana State Road 56
State Road 56 in the U.S. state of Indiana is a route that travels the south central part of the state from west to east.
Route description
The western terminus of SR 56 is near Hazleton at U.S. Route 41. SR 56 heads northeast to ...
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Indiana State Road 65
Education
Washington Township is served by the
North Gibson School Corporation
The North Gibson School Corporation is the second largest of the three public school governing institutions in Gibson County, Indiana, United States as well as one of the twenty largest in enrollment in Southwestern Indiana. The NGSC is respon ...
although not having any schools of its own since the early 1970s.
References
U.S. Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files
External links
Indiana Township AssociationUnited Township Association of Indiana
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Townships in Gibson County, Indiana
Townships in Indiana