Jefferson Township, Andrew County, Missouri

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Jefferson Township
Township
Map highlighting Jefferson Township, Andrew County, Missouri.svg
Coordinates: 39°51′35″N94°49′11″W / 39.8598075°N 94.8198128°W / 39.8598075; -94.8198128
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Missouri.svg Missouri
County Andrew
Area
[1]
 • Total
32.6 sq mi (84 km2)
 • Land32.3 sq mi (84 km2)
 • Water0.3 sq mi (0.78 km2)  0.92%
Elevation
[2]
981 ft (299 m)
Population
 (2020) [3]
 • Total
5,367
 • Density166.1/sq mi (64.1/km2)
FIPS code 29-00336710 [1]
GNIS feature ID766224 [2]

Jefferson Township is a township in Andrew County, Missouri, United States. [2] At the 2020 census, its population was 5367. [3]

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Jefferson Township was established in 1846, and named after Thomas Jefferson. [4]

Geography

Jefferson Township covers an area of 32.81 square miles (85.0 km2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Country Club. It shares part of its southern border with the city of St. Joseph in neighboring Buchanan County. The township contains five cemeteries: Fairview, Green, Ladd, Todd and Vanschoiack.

The streams of Crowley Creek, Dillon Creek and Mace Creek run through this township.

Jimtown

Jimtown was a hamlet in Andrew County founded in 1839. [4] The GNIS classifies it as a populated place, but the exact location of the town site is unknown. [5] Its post office was established in 184 under the name Jamestown. [6] Its church was mapped under that name as well, but the village was known informally as "Jimtown." [7] [8] [9] The church, the oldest in northwest Missouri, was noted for its use before Emancipation by Baptist and Methodist ministers to "convert" enslaved people to religious precepts, supposedly guaranteeing their reliability when they were hired out. [10] The village was on the Missouri Valley railway line from St. Joseph to Savannah and was one of several competing trading posts in the area. [11] It had a railway station, a hotel, a tavern, two stores, a school, and a blacksmith's forge, as well as the church. [12] [13] However, in 1871 the Burlington Railway built a cutoff to Amazonia that bypassed Jimtown and its rail line fell out of use. Its cemetery, also known as the Todd cemetery, is located at 39°50′03″N94°50′34″W / 39.8342°N 94.8428°W / 39.8342; -94.8428 .

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: Jefferson Township, Andrew County, Missouri
  3. 1 2 "Census 2020 DHC Extract Assistance". Missouri Census Data Center. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Andrew County, Missouri Place Names, 1928-1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  5. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jefferson Township, Andrew County, Missouri
  6. ↑ "Post Offices | Missouri | Andrew County". www.postalhistory.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  7. ↑ "An illustrated historical atlas of Andrew County, Missouri, 1877". digital.shsmo.org. Archived from the original on June 14, 2024. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Todd Cemetery – The Cousin Collector". cousin-collector.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2025. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  9. ↑ Rutt, Christian Ludwig (1900). The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. Harold B. Lee Library. St. Joseph, MO : St. Joseph Pub. Co. p. 15.
  10. ↑ "Jimtown". The St. Joseph Weekly Herald. June 29, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  11. ↑ Rutt, Christian Ludwig (1900). The Daily News' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. Harold B. Lee Library. St. Joseph, MO : St. Joseph Pub. Co. pp. 79 and 233.
  12. ↑ "Diggin' History". Savannah Reporter and Andrew County Democrat. May 3, 1973. p. 13. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
  13. ↑ "One of oldest N. W. Missouri Churches". St. Joseph News-Press. August 14, 1926. p. 7. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
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