Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana
Encyclopedia
Hickory Grove Township is one of eleven townships
in Benton County, Indiana
. As of the 2000 census
, its population was 404. It was organized in March 1876 and named for a grove
that grew within its borders in the 19th century.
Township (United States)
A township in the United States is a small geographic area. Townships range in size from 6 to 54 square miles , with being the norm.The term is used in three ways....
in Benton County, Indiana
Benton County, Indiana
Benton County is located along in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Indiana, along the border with Illinois. As of 2010, the county's population was 8,854. It contains six incorporated towns as well as several small unincorporated settlements; it is also divided into 11 townships which...
. As of the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000
The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...
, its population was 404. It was organized in March 1876 and named for a grove
Grove (nature)
A grove is a small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth, such as a sequoia grove, or a small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts...
that grew within its borders in the 19th century.
Unincorporated towns
- DunnDunn, IndianaDunn is a ghost town in Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States. Named for Capt. James Dunn, it stands about one and a half miles east of Dunnington. In the 1920s it had two general stores, a grain elevator and about half a dozen residences...
- HandyHandy, IndianaHandy is an unincorporated community in Perry Township, Monroe County, Indiana....
- TalbotTalbot, IndianaTalbot is an unincorporated town in Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
Adjacent townships
- GrantGrant Township, Benton County, IndianaGrant Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,142. It was organized in December 1868 and was named for Ulysses Grant.-Geography:...
(east) - Parish GroveParish Grove Township, Benton County, IndianaParish Grove Township is one of eleven townships in Benton County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 267. It contains the unincorporated town of Freeland Park.-History:...
(north) - Prairie Township, Warren CountyPrairie Township, Warren County, Indiana-External links:* *...
(south)
Major highways
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Indiana State Road 71Indiana State Road 71State Road 71 in west-central Indiana consists of two discontinuous north–south segments of two-lane rural roadway near the Illinois border.-Southern section:... -
Indiana State Road 352Indiana State Road 352State Road 352 in the U.S. state of Indiana is an east–west state highway in Benton County in the west-central part of the state.-Route description:...