Pine Creek Township (Illinois)

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Pine Creek Township
Pine Creek Township (Illinois)
Pine Creek Township
Pine Creek Township
Location in Illinois
Basic data
State : United States
State : Illinois
County : Ogle County
Coordinates : 41 ° 59 ′  N , 89 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′  N , 89 ° 28 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 758 (as of 2010)
Population density : 7.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 102.82 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 )
Height : 234 m
Area code : +1 815
FIPS : 17-59897
GNIS ID : 429568
Mayor : Lyle Hopkins (supervisor)
Map highlighting Pine Creek Township, Ogle County, Illinois.svg
Location of Pine Creek Township in Ogle County

The Pine Creek Township is one of 24 townships in Ogle County in the north of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois .

geography

Pine Creek Township is located in northern Illinois around 160 km west of Chicago . The Wisconsin border is about 70 km north; the Mississippi , which forms the border with Iowa , is about 60 km to the west.

The Pine Creek Township is at 41 ° 58'35 "north latitude and 89 ° 27'31" west longitude and extends over 102.82 km².

Pine Creek Township is located in the southwestern center of Ogle County and borders on Mount Morris Township in the north, Rockvale Township in the northeast, Oregon-Nashua Township in the east, Taylor Township in the southeast, and Grand Detour in the south Township , to the southwest to Woosung Township , to the west to Buffalo Township and to the northwest to Lincoln Township .

traffic

All roads in Pine Creek Township are county highways and subordinate and partly unpaved roads.

A railway line of the BNSF Railway runs through Pine Creek Township in an east-west direction and runs west from Chicago .

The closest airfield is Ogle County Airport , about 2 km northeast of the township ; the nearest major airport is Chicago Rockford International Airport, around 45 km northeast, on the southern outskirts of Rockford .

population

At the 2010 census , the township had 758 residents. In addition to scattered settlements, only the unincorporated settlement of Stratford exists in Lincoln Township .

Individual evidence

  1. Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed on September 17, 2016.
  2. Missouri Census Data Center - Illinois  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 3, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mcdc.missouri.edu  

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