Official Name: | Pine Township |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Image Map1: | Map of USA IN.svg |
Map Caption1: | Location of Indiana in the United States |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Warren |
Government Type: | Indiana township |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | March 1830 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 36.16 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 36.15 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
Area Water Percent: | 0.03 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 499 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 207 |
Elevation Ft: | 679 |
Coordinates: | 40.4278°N -87.32°W |
Area Code: | 765 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 453740 |
Pine Township is one of twelve townships in Warren County, Indiana, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 499 and it contained 223 housing units.[2]
Pine Township was established in March 1830. There were originally four townships in the county; Pine and Washington were the first two new townships to be created.[3]
Van Reed Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[4]
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which (or 99.97%) is land and (or 0.03%) is water.[5] Its only town is Rainsville, though a tiny hamlet named Brisco once existed to its west. Other extinct towns include Hooker Corner, Point Pleasant and Rocky Ford. The streams of Mud Pine Creek, Spring Branch and Stoney Creek run through this township.
The township contains these six cemeteries: Brisco, Gray, Hooker, Jones, Rainsville and Van Reed.
U.S. Route 41 runs from north to south in the far western part of the township on its way to Attica.[6] Indiana State Road 26 winds its way across the north part of the township on its route from the Illinois state line to Pine Village.[7]
Pine Township is part of the Metropolitan School District of Warren County.[8]
Pine Township has a trustee who administers rural fire protection and ambulance service, provides relief to the poor, manages cemetery care, and performs farm assessment, among other duties. The trustee is assisted in these duties by a three-member township board. The trustees and board members are elected to four-year terms.[9]
Pine Township is part of Indiana's 8th congressional district, Indiana House of Representatives District 42,[10] and Indiana State Senate District 38.[11]