White River Township is one of ten

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. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,472 (down from 1,689 at 2010) and it contained 723 housing units. It took its name from the White River.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 96.66%) is land and (or 3.32%) is water.

Cities and towns

* Hazleton * Patoka

Unincorporated towns

* East Mount Carmel (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)

Adjacent townships

Gibson County * Washington Township (east) * Patoka Township (south) * Montgomery Township (southwest) Knox County * Decker Township (northwest) * Johnson Township (northeast)

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* Mt. Carmel Precinct (west)

Cemeteries

The township contains eight cemeteries: Barnett, Decker Chapel, Field, Humphrey, Milburn, Morrison, Robb and Trippet.

Major highways

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* State Road 56 * State Road 64

Airports and landing strips

* Hull Airport

Education

White River 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 ...

, and like neighboring Washington Township also has no schools of its own since the early 1970s. Prior to 1963, Hazleton High School and Patoka High School had students from the township. That year, those two schools merged into White River High School, which had the school colors as red, white, and blue and the mascots as the Little Giants. In 1965, that school in turn merged into

Princeton Community High School Princeton Community High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Princeton, Indiana, United States. The high school is a part of the North Gibson School Corporation. Until March 2016, the school operated a television station, ...

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'' described White River High as "Possibly the shortest-lived high school of the consolidation era" as many school districts and schools in 1960s Indiana were merging with one another.

References

External links

Indiana Township Association

United Township Association of Indiana

U.S. Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)

United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files
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