BlockWhite Township
The complete chapter on this township from A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876. 86 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | 12 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Ionia | 15 | 12 | - | - |
| Lincoln | 68 | 57 | 19 | - |
| Palo Pinto | 29 | - | 11 | - |
| Santiago | 15 | 10 | 5 | - |
Settlements in this township
5 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 5 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
86 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876. 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.
White Township
Was organized November 12, 1838, and called after Judge William White, then one of the County Judges, and one of the first settlers of the County. It comprised about its present boundaries.
The first, and several succeeding elections, were held at the house of George McDaniel, at the old, abandoned place, a short distance west of Joshua Lloyd's. Afterwards they were held at the houses of Markham Fristoe, Benj. McDaniel and Joseph G. Parsons. Henry Y. Elbert, Bnos McDaniel and James Graham were the first Judges.
Provenance
Text from A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876, 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.