Official Name: | Clear Creek Township |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Motto: | Busiest Little Township in Indiana |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Monroe |
Government Type: | Indiana township |
Leader Title: | Trustee |
Leader Name: | Thelma Kelley Jeffries |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 37.9 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 30.87 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 7.03 |
Area Water Percent: | 18.55 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 5309 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 162 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 214 |
Elevation Ft: | 702 |
Coordinates: | 39.0336°N -86.5156°W |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 47401, 47403, 47436, 47462 |
Area Code: | 812, 930 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 453222 |
Clear Creek Township is one of eleven townships in Monroe County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,000 and it contained 2,674 housing units.[3]
Joseph Mitchell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which (or 81.45%) is land and (or 18.55%) is water.[3]
(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
Monroe County's Clear Creek Town is not located in Clear Creek Township, but rather in Perry Township, just north of Clear Creek Township's border. Both the town and the township are named after the same eponymous creek, which flows from the north to the south through both of them.
Clear Creek Township Trustee's Office (Township Government) operates three active cemeteries, which includes the marking and selling of plots, marking for headstones, meeting with family members and marking burial sites for their family member, all maintenance, mowing and trimming, filling in grave sites, removing funeral floral arrangements, leveling and sowing grass seed and straw, cleaning up after rain and/or wind storms which blow flowers off grave sites.
Clear Creek Township Trustee's Office (Township Government) has an additional 26 cemeteries in the township. Four cemeteries were moved due to the construction of Lake Monroe.
Deeds are recorded in office of the Recorder of Monroe County. Thelma Kelley Jeffries is the trustee of the township.
Clear Creek Township contains 29 cemeteries.