Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County, Indiana Explained

Official Name:Sugar Creek Township
Settlement Type:Township
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Indiana
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Clinton
Government Type:Indiana township
Established Title:Organized
Established Date:1841
Area Total Sq Mi:25.84
Area Land Sq Mi:25.84
Area Water Sq Mi:0
Population As Of:2020
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:456
Population Density Sq Mi:auto
Elevation Footnotes:[2]
Elevation M:280
Elevation Ft:919
Coordinates:40.2314°N -86.2867°W
Blank Name:FIPS code
Blank Info:18-73862[3]
Blank1 Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank1 Info:453881

Sugar Creek Township is one of fourteen townships in Clinton County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 456 (slightly up from 450 at 2010[4]) and it contained 207 housing units.The township is named for the stream that flows southwest through it.[5]

History

The first settler in the area of Sugar Creek Township was Williams Harris, who arrived in 1828, built a cabin and hunted and fished in the wilderness — he was the only white inhabitant for four years, until the arrival of farmer Abner Dunn and his family in 1832, then Merrill Cooper and blacksmith W. V. McKinney in 1835. Though originally slow, settlement in the township increased in the 1840s and by 1850 its population was 477; by 1860 it was 719, in 1870 it was 964, and in 1880 it was 1410.

The area's residents petitioned in 1841 for their own township, a request granted by the county commissioners who formed Sugar Creek Township from a portion of Jackson.[6]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, all land.[4]

Unincorporated towns

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Major highways

References

  1. Web site: May 2023 . Census Bureau profile: Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County, Indiana . . Apr 5, 2024.
  2. Web site: US Board on Geographic Names. 2008-01-31. United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25.
  3. Web site: U.S. Census website. United States Census Bureau. 2008-01-31.
  4. Web site: Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1 . https://archive.today/20200212202528/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY10/0500000US18023 . dead . 2020-02-12 . United States Census . 2013-05-10.
  5. Book: Claybaugh , Joseph . History of Clinton County, Indiana. 1913. A. W. Bowen & Company. Indianapolis. 32.
  6. Book: Claybaugh , Joseph . History of Clinton County, Indiana. 1913. A. W. Bowen & Company. Indianapolis. Sugar Creek Township.