Poplar Bluff Township, Butler County, Missouri

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official_name = Poplar Bluff Township
settlement_type = Township
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Missouri
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Butler
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area_total_km2 = 359.81
area_land_km2 = 359.24
area_water_km2 = 0.57
area_total_sq_mi = 138.92
area_land_sq_mi = 138.7
area_water_sq_mi = 0.22
area_water_percent = 0.16

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 24929
population_density_km2 = 69.4
population_density_sq_mi = 179.7

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elevation_m = 111
elevation_ft = 364
latd = 36
latm = 45
lats = 31
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longd = 090
longm = 23
longs = 51
longEW = W

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Poplar Bluff Township is one of ten townships in Butler County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 24,929.

Geography

Poplar Bluff Township covers an area of 138.92 square miles 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

* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)]

External links

* [http://www.us-counties.com/localgov/missouri.html US-Counties.com]
* [http://www.city-data.com/township/Poplar-Bluff-Butler-MO.html City-Data.com]