BlockWashington Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904. 190 words, covering 5 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton (historical) | 16 | - | 17 | - |
| Clair | 10 | - | 4 | - |
| Kirschner | 17 | - | 21 | - |
| Saint Joseph | 8 | - | 27 | - |
| Saxton | 13 | 14 | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
5 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 5 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
190 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904. 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.
Washington Township
Some of the early farms in Washington township now form a part of the city of St. Joseph. The following persons are mentioned in history as having settled prior to 1840: John H. Whitehead, William Whitehead, Henr}- \\\ Hanson, James Cochran, Frederick Waymire, William Pugh, Clayborne F. Palmer, A. C. Hyde, Thomas, John and Elisha Sollars. Stephen Parker, Isaac and Michael ^liller, James G. Karnes, Alexander Fudge, Leroy Kauffman, Benjamin Williams, Jacoli (iroschon. Logan Jones, Edward Maxwell, _F)hn H. Cox, Da\id Ewing, William Sallee, Joseph Davis, George Coughern, Michael Rogers, F.
Washington township has three justices of the peace and one constable, who are stationed at St. Joseph. There are four post offices in the township, besides St. Joseph - Stock Yards (South St. Joseph), Vories (South Park), Inza (Hyde's Addition) and Saxton.
\Vhen the Stock Yards were opened, in 1887, the town of St. George was platted and put upon the market. The town was never incorporated and was made a part of St. Joseph in the spring of 1900. It is now a populous residence district, well equipped with business houses, churches, schools, paved streets and modern conveniences.
Provenance
Text from History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904, 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.