BlockGreer Township
The complete chapter on this township from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881. 92 words, covering 3 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
2 settlementsWhat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elberfeld | - | 10 | - | - |
| Wheatonville | - | 2 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 3 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
92 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881. 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.
Greer Township
Greer township, which lies in the northwest corner of the county, west of Hart and north of Campbell, is named in honor of Richard Greer. Mr. Greer was an early citizen of the township, and resided in it until his death, which occurred in 1866. Larkin Birchfield, a Baptist minister, was one of the original settlers of the township, having located in it in 1827, two years after Mr. Greer. John Hornet, John Barton, William Taylor, George Taylor, James Kell and Joseph Fields were also among the early settlers of the township.
Provenance
Text from Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881, 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.