Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana Explained

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]

History

Joseph Mitchell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Geography

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]

Unincorporated towns

(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.

Cemeteries

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.

Major highways

School districts

Political districts

References

  1. Web site: May 2023 . Census Bureau profile: Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana . . March 21, 2024.
  2. Web site: US Board on Geographic Names. 2017-05-09. United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007.
  3. Web site: Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1 . https://archive.today/20200212200511/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY10/0500000US18105 . dead . 2020-02-12 . United States Census . 2013-05-10.

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