Fall Creek Township, Adams County, Illinois
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Fall Creek Township is one of twenty-two townships
Civil township
A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to, and geographic divisions of, a county. 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,...

 in Adams County
Adams County, Illinois
Adams County is the westernmost county of the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 67,103, which is a decrease of 1.7% from 68,277 in 2000...

, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, USA
United States
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. As of the 2000 census
United States Census, 2000
The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

, its population was 620.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau
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, Fall Creek Township covers an area of 38.95 square miles (100.9 km²); of this, 2.34 square miles (6.1 km²) or 6 percent is water.

Unincorporated towns

  • Fall Creek
    Fall Creek, Illinois
    Fall Creek is an unincorporated community in Fall Creek Township, Adams County, Illinois, United States. Fall Creek is located along Interstate 172 southwest of Payson....

  • Marblehead
    Marblehead, Illinois
    Marblehead is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois, USA, just south of Quincy. Illinois State Route 57 is the main auxiliary route through the town and travels north to the business district of Quincy or south to Interstate 72 .The community is part of the Quincy, IL–MO...


(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)

Cemeteries

The township contains four cemeteries: Bluff Hall, Craigtown, Fall Creek Chapel and Thompson.

Major highways

  • Interstate 172
    Interstate 172
    Interstate 172 is a spur route from Interstate 72. The highway runs north from its start outside of Hannibal, Missouri to just two miles west of Fowler, Illinois. At U.S. Highway 24, Interstate 172 becomes Illinois Route 336, which runs north to Carthage, Illinois...

     (spur of Interstate 72
    Interstate 72
    Interstate 72 is an Interstate Highway in the midwestern United States. Its western terminus is in Hannibal, Missouri, at an intersection with U.S. Route 61; its eastern terminus is at Country Fair Drive in Champaign, Illinois. In 2006, the Illinois General Assembly dedicated all of Interstate 72...

    )
  • US Route 36
  • Illinois State Route 57
  • Illinois State Route 336

Political districts

  • Illinois' 17th congressional district
    Illinois' 17th congressional district
    The 17th Congressional District of Illinois covers much of west central Illinois, including the cities of Sterling, Rock Island, Moline, Kewanee, Galesburg, Canton, Macomb, Quincy, Springfield and Decatur, and areas in Henry, Whiteside, Rock Island, Mercer, Knox, Warren, Henderson, Fulton,...

  • State House District 93
  • State Senate District 47

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