BlockJackson Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915. 78 words, covering 4 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Hill | - | 2 | 1 | - |
| Sardinia | - | 3 | - | - |
| Waynesburg | - | 1 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
4 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 4 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
78 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915. 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.
Jackson Township
Jackson township has the greatest number of consolidated schools, no district schools remaining in this township. The live consolidated schools in this township are located as follows: Newburg, VVaynesburg, Alert, Bighorn and Sardina. The four first-named schools have only two teachers, who administer to the wants of the children, while the last named has three. Two years high school work is taught in all of these schools, in addition to the regular course of study for the grades.
Provenance
Text from History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915, 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.