Green Township, Nodaway County, Missouri

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Green Township
Township
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Building in Quitman
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Coordinates: 40°21′19″N95°05′28″W / 40.3552756°N 95.0912316°W / 40.3552756; -95.0912316
Country United States
State Missouri
County Nodaway
Erected1866
Area
[1]
 • Total
67.33 sq mi (174.4 km2)
 • Land67.17 sq mi (174.0 km2)
 • Water0.16 sq mi (0.4 km2)  0.24%
Elevation
[2]
902 ft (275 m)
Population
 (2020) [3]
 • Total
246
 • Density3.7/sq mi (1.4/km2)
FIPS code 29-14729008 [1]
GNIS feature ID767086 [2]

Green Township is a township in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. [2] At the 2020 census, its population was 246. [3] It contains about 67 sections of land. [4] The now disincorporated village of Quitman lies in its center and a small hamlet named Fairview was located four miles southwest. [4] All of Bilby Ranch Lake Conservation Area lies in its southwest.

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History

Green Township was established on June 14, 1866, [4] and was named after Nathanael Greene, an American Revolutionary War general. [5]

Geography

Bowman Branch headwaters on the northern border of this township with Nodaway Township and travels southwesterly through this township and becomes a tributary of the Nodaway River just south of Quitman.

A small settlement in the northwest of the township was called Eudora; it was located northwest of Quitman and southwest of Dawson. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "MO TIGER County Subdivisions". Missouri Spatial Data Infomration Service. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Green Township, Nodaway County, Missouri
  3. 1 2 "Census 2020 DHC Extract Assistance". Missouri Census Data Center. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri - Volume 1". B.F. Bowen & Company. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Nodaway County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Records of the Post Office Department, Missouri: Newton - Osage". National Archves Catalog. Retrieved May 20, 2025.
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