BlockIndex Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917. 187 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.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City | 2 | 42 | 4 | - |
| Gunn City | 6 | 13 | 1 | - |
| Hadsell | 11 | 3 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 3 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
187 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917. 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.
Biographical Index
Captain A. S. O'Bannon, in 1857, surveyed and laid out the town of Index on the farm of E. S. Payne in the southeast quarter of the north¬ west quarter of section 21, in township 44 of range 29, in the municipal township of the same name. Mr. Payne erected a store building and con¬ ducted a general store for several years. Among the early business men were Rev. D. N. Horne, Alonzo Smith, L. West, Cy Lotspeich, Dr. J. H. VanHoy, and A. S. O'Bannon. O'Bannon taught school there.
1873. Hugh G. Glenn was clerk of the association and the writer was a delegate to this association. It is quite interesting to reflect and recall the names and faces of the many who attended this meeting. Alas, these men and woman, like the town, have passed the way of all the earth. Few there are who now remember this town, although it has been gone but a few years. On the demise of Index town, some of its houses and all its business moved to the present thriving city of Garden City, in the same township.
Provenance
Text from History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917, 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.