Nine Mile Prairie Township, Callaway County, Missouri

Township in the American state of Missouri

Township in Missouri, United States

38°54′22″N 091°42′42″W / 38.90611°N 91.71167°W / 38.90611; -91.71167CountryUnited StatesStateMissouriCountyCallawayArea

• Total73.44 sq mi (190.21 km²) • Land72.97 sq mi (188.98 km²) • Water0.47 sq mi (1.23 km²) 0.65%Elevation

^[1]

830 ft (253 m)Population

(2010)

• Total790 • Density11/sq mi (4.2/km²)FIPS code29-52508^[2]GNIS feature ID0766382

Nine Mile Prairie Township is one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 790.^[3]

Nine Mile Prairie Township was named for a 9-mile (14 km) long prairie located within its borders.^[4]

Geography

Nine Mile Prairie Township covers an area of 73.44 square miles (190.2 km²) while containing no incorporated towns, includes the unincorporated community of Williamsburg, plus rural homes. Within its boundaries are six cemeteries: Allen, Antioch, Gregory, Oak Grove, Tate and Whitehead; and the streams of Bragg Branch, Bull Branch and Clarks Branch run through this township.

History

Nine Mile Prairie Township, bordered by Montgomery County to the east, was created May 15, 1821 from what had been approximately the northern 2/3 of the much larger historic Auxvasse Township that covered all of eastern Callaway County in its early history. Around 1875, Nine Mile Prairie was reduced in the northwest by the creation of Jackson Township, followed by the creation of Calwood Township from its west central sector in 1876, and finally the loss of land to the new Shamrock Township between 1883 and 1897. The township revolves today primarily around the Williamsburg community.^[5]^[6]

Transportation

Nine Mile Prairie Township contains one airport or landing strip, Eckerts Airstrip.

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.
^ "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Nine Mile Prairie township, Callaway County, Missouri". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
^ "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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Missouri State Library. History of Callaway County, Missouri. St Louis: National Historical Company, 1884.
^ Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society. Combined Atlases of Callaway County Missouri 1876-1897-1919. Mount Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1994.