Kinder Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Township in the US state of Missouri
Township in Missouri, United States
37°21′23″N 089°48′50″W / 37.35639°N 89.81389°W / 37.35639; -89.81389[1]
(2000)
Kinder Township is one of ten townships in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 999.
History
Kinder Township was founded in 1872.[3] The township has the name of the Kinder family, early settlers.[4]
Geography
Kinder Township covers an area of 32.13 square miles (83.2 km2) and contains no incorporated settlements. It contains six cemeteries: Allen, Calvary, Criddle, Deck, Gravel Hill and McGuire.
The streams of Byrd Creek, Dillard Creek, Little Whitewater Creek, McGuire Branch and Schroder Branch run through this township.
References
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. 1912. p. 163.
- ^ "Cape Girardeau County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
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- USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
External links
- US-Counties.com
- City-Data.com
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Municipalities and communities of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States
County seat: Jackson
- Cape Girardeau‡
- Delta
- Jackson
- Scott City‡
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- Allenville
- Gordonville
- Oak Ridge
- Old Appleton‡
- Pocahontas
- Whitewater
communities
‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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