Marion_Township,_Dubois_County,_Indiana

Marion Township, Dubois County, Indiana

Marion Township, Dubois County, Indiana

Township in Indiana, United States


Marion Township is one of twelve townships in Dubois County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,501 and it contained 767 housing units.[4]

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History

Marion Township was created from land given by Bainbridge, Hall, Columbia, Harbison, and Patoka townships.[5]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 32.66 square miles (84.6 km2), of which 31.71 square miles (82.1 km2) (or 97.09%) is land and 0.95 square miles (2.5 km2) (or 2.91%) is water.[4]

Unincorporated towns

Adjacent townships

Major highways

Education

Marion Township is in Northeast Dubois County School Corporation.[6] The comprehensive high school of that school district is Northeast Dubois High School.

In 1948 Harbison and Marion townships were planning a joint high school.[7]


References

  1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. Wilson, George R. (1910). History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910. Windmill Publications. pp. 359.
  3. "Hark the Herald-- This Is The Law On Holding Company School Financing". Dubois County Daily Herald. Vol. 53, no. 236. Jasper, Indiana. July 14, 1948. pp. 1, 7 via Newspapers.com.

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