Batavia Township is located in Kane County, Illinois

Kane County, Illinois

Kane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 515,269, which is an increase of 27.5% from 404,119 in 2000. Its county seat is Geneva, and its largest city is Aurora.- Geography :...

. Unlike the prototypical Midwestern township

Survey township

Survey township, sometimes called Congressional township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System, refers to a square unit of land, that is nominally six miles on a side...

, which is a six mile by six mile square, Batavia splits such a 6 miles (9.7 km) square with Geneva Township

Geneva Township, Kane County, Illinois

Geneva Township is located in Kane County, Illinois. Unlike the prototypical Midwestern township, which is a six mile by six mile square, Geneva Township splits such a square with Batavia Township. Geneva Township has of land and of water. It is divided by the Fox River. Its population in...

. Batavia Township comprises 18.37 square miles (47.6 km²) of land and 0.28 square mile (0.7251966708 km²) of water. It is divided by the Fox River

Fox River (Illinois River tributary)

The Fox River is a tributary of the Illinois River in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois in the United States. There are two other "Fox Rivers" in southern Illinois: the Fox River and a smaller "Fox River" that joins the Wabash River near New Harmony, Indiana.-Wisconsin:The Fox River rises near...

. Its population in the 2000 Census was 30,137. It has 10,797 housing units. The western part of the United States Department of Energy

United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material...

's Fermilab

Fermilab

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics...

 is located at the eastern edge of the township (formerly in the village of Weston), although most of the facility is located in neighboring Winfield Township

Winfield Township, DuPage County, Illinois

Winfield Township is one of nine townships in DuPage County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 Census, its population was 45,155. It is the least populous of the DuPage County Townships.-Geography:...

 in DuPage County

DuPage County, Illinois

As of the 2010 Census, the population of the county was 916,924, White Americans made up 77.9% of Dupage County's population; non-Hispanic whites represented 70.5% of the population. Black Americans made up 4.6% of the population. Native Americans made up 0.3% of Dupage County's population...

.