Caldwell Township, Callaway County, Missouri

Caldwell Township
Township
Coordinates: 38°43′10″N 092°00′15″W
Country	United States
State	Missouri
County	Callaway
Area
• Total	23.38 sq mi (60.56 km^2)
• Land	23.34 sq mi (60.44 km^2)
• Water	0.05 sq mi (0.12 km^2)  0.2%
Elevation [1]	778 ft (237 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	438
• Density	19/sq mi (7.2/km^2)
FIPS code	29-10414[2]
GNIS feature ID	0766372

Caldwell Township is one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 438.^[3]

History

Caldwell Township was established on June 5, 1883, created from former portions of current adjacent townships (as of 2018), and named in honor of a local family.^[4] The township's boundaries changed between 1883 and 1897, per descriptions of boundaries in the 1884 Missouri State Library history of Callaway County and the subsequent official map of the county published in 1897.

Geography

Caldwell Township covers an area of 23.38 square miles (60.6 km²) and while containing no incorporated settlements, it has included the unincorporated community of "Dixie". It contains seven cemeteries: Bush, Caldwell, Cave, Foster, James, Knight and Mount Tabor; as well as the streams of Caldwell Branch, Prairie Fork and Prime Creek.

References

1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
3. "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Caldwell township, Callaway County, Missouri". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
4. "Callaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.

• USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links

• US-Counties.com
• City-Data.com