Mound Township is one of twelve townships in Warren County, Indiana, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 407 and it contained 199 housing units.[2]
Mound Township was one of the original four created when the county was organized in 1827.[4]
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 16.79 square miles (43.5 km2), of which 16.57 square miles (42.9 km2) (or 98.69%) is land and 0.22 square miles (0.57 km2) (or 1.31%) is water.[5] The town of Foster is located just north of U.S. Route 136, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the township's southwestern border. Extinct communities in the township include Baltimore, which thrived on the banks of the Wabash River in the early 19th century, and Romine Corner. The streams of Kitchen Creek and Possum Run run through the township.
Map of Mound Township
Cemeteries
The township contains these three cemeteries: Baltimore,[6] Rodgers[7] and Upper Mound.[8]
Mound Township has a trustee who administers rural fire protection and ambulance service, provides relief to the poor, manages cemetery care, and performs farm assessment, among other duties. The trustee is assisted in these duties by a three-member township board. The trustees and board members are elected to four-year terms.[15]
Goodspeed, Weston A. (1883). "Part II. History of Warren County". Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company. pp. 31–156. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
Warren County Historical Society (1966). A History of Warren County, Indiana. Williamsport, Indiana.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Warren County Historical Society (2002). A History of Warren County, Indiana (175th Anniversary ed.). Williamsport, Indiana.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
