Poplar Bluff Township, Butler County, Missouri

Township in the US state of Missouri

Township in Missouri, United States

36°45′31″N 090°23′51″W / 36.75861°N 90.39750°W / 36.75861; -90.39750CountryUnited StatesStateMissouriCountyButlerArea

• Total138.92 sq mi (359.81 km²) • Land138.7 sq mi (359.24 km²) • Water0.22 sq mi (0.57 km²) 0.16%Elevation

^[1]

325 ft (99 m)Population

(2010)

• Total25,878 • Density179.7/sq mi (69.4/km²)FIPS code29-59114^[2]GNIS feature ID0766356^[1]

Poplar Bluff Township is one of ten townships in Butler County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 25,878.^[3]

Geography

Poplar Bluff Township covers an area of 138.92 square miles (359.8 km²) and contains one incorporated settlement, Poplar Bluff (the county seat). It contains seventeen cemeteries: Ashcraft, Black Creek, Carpenter Bend, Dooley, Friendship, Green Hill, Hvam, Marble Hill, Melton, Memorial Gardens, Morocco, Oak Hill, Podesva, Sacred Heart, Shadle, Sheppard and Woodlawn.

Carpenter Lake is within this township. The streams of Agee Creek, Black Creek, Black River, Buck Creek, Dobbs Creek, Harwell Creek, Hickory Creek, Hoedapp Creek, Indian Creek, Lewis Creek, Mill Creek, Pike Creek and Pike Slough run through this township.

Transportation

Poplar Bluff Township contains three airports or landing strips: Earl Fields Memorial Airport, Hayes Field and Lucy Lee Hospital Heliport.

References

^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Poplar Bluff Township, Butler County, Missouri
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ U.S. Census Bureau (September 2012). "2010 Census of Population and Housing, Population and Housing Unit Counts, Missouri" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2016.