Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana

Clear Creek Township
Township
A farmhouse in northern Clear Creek Township
Motto:  Busiest Little Township in Indiana
Location in Monroe County
Coordinates: 39°02′01″N 86°30′56″W / 39.03361°N 86.51556°W / 39.03361; -86.51556
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Monroe
Government
• Type	Indiana township
• Trustee	Thelma Kelley Jeffries
Area
• Total	37.9 sq mi (98 km2)
• Land	30.87 sq mi (80.0 km2)
• Water	7.03 sq mi (18.2 km2)  18.55%
Elevation [1]	702 ft (214 m)
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	5,309
• Density	162/sq mi (63/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	47401, 47403, 47436, 47462
Area code(s)	812, 930
GNIS feature ID	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.^[4]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 37.9 square miles (98 km²), of which 30.87 square miles (80.0 km²) (or 81.45%) is land and 7.03 square miles (18.2 km²) (or 18.55%) is water.^[3]

Unincorporated towns

• Fairfax at 39°00′29″N 86°28′50″W / 39.008105°N 86.48055°W / 39.008105; -86.48055
• Harrodsburg at 39°00′48″N 86°32′42″W / 39.013382°N 86.544996°W / 39.013382; -86.544996
• Smithville at 39°04′16″N 86°30′25″W / 39.071159°N 86.50694°W / 39.071159; -86.50694

(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.^{[citation needed]}

Major highways

• Indiana State Road 37

School districts

• Monroe County Community School Corporation

Political districts

• Indiana's 9th congressional district
• State House District 60
• State Senate District 44

References

• "Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
• United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
• IndianaMap

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana.

• Clear Creek Township Government page
• Clear Creek Township Cemeteries page
• Indiana Township Association
• United Township Association of Indiana
• City-Data.com page for Clear Creek Township

This page was last edited on 21 March 2024, at 05:26