BlockCrooked River Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881. 197 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
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.
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 2 of the 3 are named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
197 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Ray County, Mo., 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.
Crooked River Township
Crooked River township, in the southeastern part of the county, embaces all of congressional township fifty-two north, range twenty-six west; seventeen integral, and six fractional sections in township fifty-one, same range; twelve sections in township fifty-two, range twenty-seven, and four sections in township fifty-one, same range. It borders on the Missouri river, on Carroll county, and on Grape Grove and Richmond townships; the former being on its north, the latter on its west side.
The first settlement in this township was also the first in the county. It was made in the year 1815; but as a full account of this settlement will be found in the chapter devoted to early settlements and settlers, it were superfluous to recite it here.
The southern portion of the township is bottom land; the north, central, and eastern portions gently undulating prairie, of deep Jand productive soil. Timber abounds on Crooked river, and the larger portion of what is now Crooked River township was, when first settled, covered with dense forest. Hardin and Morton are the villages in this township, and will be mentioned in connection with the history of the towns in Raycounty, to be found in this volume.
Provenance
Text from History of Ray County, Mo., 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.