Richland Township, Harvey County, Kansas

Richland Township
Richland Township
	Township
	; Location in Harvey County
	Coordinates: 37°57′20″N097°12′26″W / 37.95556°N 97.20722°W Coordinates: 37°57′20″N097°12′26″W / 37.95556°N 97.20722°W
Country	United States
State	Kansas
County	Harvey
Area
• Total	36.34 sq mi (94.11 km2)
• Land	36.27 sq mi (93.93 km2)
• Water	0.07 sq mi (0.19 km2) 0.2%
Elevation	1,411 ft (430 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	360
• Density	9.9/sq mi (3.8/km2)
GNIS feature ID	0473711
Website	County Website

Last updated February 18, 2019

Richland Township is a township in Harvey County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 360.

A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county. The term town is used in New England, New York, and Wisconsin to refer to the equivalent of the civil township in these states. Specific responsibilities and the degree of autonomy vary based on each state. Civil townships are distinct from survey townships, but in states that have both, the boundaries often coincide and may completely geographically subdivide a county. The U.S. Census Bureau classifies civil townships as minor civil divisions. Currently, there are 20 states with civil townships.

Harvey County, Kansas county in Kansas, United States

Harvey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 34,684. Its county seat and most populous city is Newton.

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita, with its most populated county being Johnson County. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.

Geography

Richland Township covers an area of 36.34 square miles (94.1 km²) and contains the ghost town of Annelly and the southeast corner of the unincorporated community of McLain. According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Whitewater. The streams of East Branch Whitewater Creek, West Branch Whitewater Creek and West Wildcat Creek run through this township.

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged droughts, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighbourhoods that are still populated, but significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction.

Annelly is a ghost town in Richland Township 9 miles southeast of Newton in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. The community was located along the Missouri Pacific Railroad line between Newton and Whitewater, but the track was abandoned in 2003.

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Harvey County, Kansas, United States
County seat: Newton
Cities	Burrton Halstead Hesston Newton North Newton Sedgwick‡ Walton	Map of Kansas highlighting Harvey County
Townships	Alta Burrton Darlington Emma Garden Halstead Highland Lake Lakin Macon Newton Pleasant Richland Sedgwick Walton
Unincorporated communities	McLain Patterson Putnam Zimmerdale
Ghost town	Annelly
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Richland Township, Harvey County, Kansas

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Richland Township
Township
Location in Harvey County
Coordinates: 37°57′20″N097°12′26″W / 37.95556°N 97.20722°W / 37.95556; -97.20722 Coordinates: 37°57′20″N097°12′26″W / 37.95556°N 97.20722°W / 37.95556; -97.20722
Country	United States
State	Kansas
County	Harvey
Area
• Total	36.34 sq mi (94.11 km²)
• Land	36.27 sq mi (93.93 km²)
• Water	0.07 sq mi (0.19 km²) 0.2%
Elevation	1,411 ft (430 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	360
• Density	9.9/sq mi (3.8/km²)
GNIS feature ID	0473711
Website	County Website