BlockDuck Creek Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874. 348 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leisure | - | 4 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 2 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
348 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Duck Creek Township
This township is situated in the northwest corner of the county. It is six miles from north to south and four from east to west, and contains twenty-four square miles. This is perhaps the newest township in the county. There yet remains a large amount of uncultivated land which is covered with excellent timber. Duck Creek, from which this township derived its name, ])usses through the southeastern part. About two- thirds of this township was. originally embraced in the Miami Reserve. Independence is situated on the north line adjoining Grant county. This township was originally embraced in the territory of Pipe C^reek, but was made an independent township in 1851. The population in 1860 was four hundred and ninety-eight; in 1870 it was seven hundred and eighty-nine, and in 1874 estimated at one thousand. It contains six school liouses valued at $2,500. In 1858 it had two hundred and five school children, and in 1872 it had two hundred and sixtytwo.
The number of acres of improved land in 1870 was five thousand eight hundred and twenty- four. The number of bushels of corn raised in 1870 was forty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty, value of live stock, $61,415.
Among the first settlers of this township we find the names of David Waymire, Amasa Clymer, James Gray, Elliott Waymire, Thomas Castell, Fielding Sampson, D. B.
Duck Creek township, though wild, and to a great extent uncultivated, will in time make a good farming country. With its inexhaustible soil and valuable timber, nothing is needed but time to make it an average township. Already good barns and dwellings are found here, as in older settled hjcalities.
We omttted in the proper place the name of John Harmon, who has been a prominent citizen of this townsiiip for many years. We have, however, a communication from Mr. Harmon, which will be found in another part of the work and will doubtless be read with interest. In this communication Mr. Harmon dwells at some length on the early history of Duck Creek, which will account for this short and imperfect sketch.
Provenance
Text from History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.