BlockFishing River Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Ray County, Mo., published 1881. 206 words, covering 8 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Lakes | 15 | - | 19 | - |
| Elkhorn | 4 | 2 | 21 | - |
| Excelsior Estates | 30 | - | 15 | - |
| Golf Hill | 13 | - | 20 | - |
| Homestead | 14 | - | 17 | - |
| New Garden | 8 | - | 20 | - |
| Vibbard | 29 | 7 | 12 | - |
| Wood Heights | 10 | - | 18 | - |
Settlements in this township
8 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 2 of the 8 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
206 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.
Fishing River Township
Fishing River township was one of the three townships into which the county was originally divided. When established in 1821, it included the territory now occupied by the counties of Clay, Clinton, De Kalb, Gentry, and Worth. This territory, by act of the general assembly, became
Clay county, January 2, 1822, and, of course, Fishing River township was no longer a part of Ray county. A new township was established in Ray county in November, 1826, and named Fishing River township. It is the present Fishing River township, reduced to its present limits by the establishment of Polk and Camden townships.
Fishing River township is in the western part of the county. It includes all of congressional township 52 north, 29 west; half of township 53 north, 29 west, and sections one, two, three, ten, eleven and twelve, of township 51, 29 west. It contains thirty-eight thousand four hundred acres.
Fishing River township was settled in 1818, by the Cleavengers, Blythes, McCoskries, Hutchings, Aliens and others, from Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana. A full account of this settlement having been given in another place, the writer omits it here. Vibbard, New Garden P. O., and El'khorn are in this township. Its population, June 1, 1880, was 1,961.
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.