Durham Township is one of twenty-four
townships in
Hancock County,
Illinois
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USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 278 and it contained 129 housing units.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.95%) is land and (or 0.08%) is water.
Unincorporated towns
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Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
*Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham
*County Durham, an English county
* Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States
*Durham, North Carolina, a city in N ...
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(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
Cemeteries
The township contains these five cemeteries: Byler, Durham, Gittings, Gittings Mound and Vandruff.
Major highways
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Illinois Route 9
Illinois Route 9 (IL 9) is a cross-state, east–west rural state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of Illinois. It travels from Niota at the Fort Madison Toll Bridge, that crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa, eastward across ce ...
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Illinois Route 94
Illinois Route 94 is a north–south state highway in western Illinois. It runs from U.S. Route 24 (US 24) just east of Camp Point to U.S. Route 67 just south of Oak Grove, just south of the Quad Cities area. This is a distance of .
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Airports and landing strips
* Douglas Airport
Demographics
School districts
* Nauvoo-Colusa Community Unit School District 325
* Illini West (Carthage, LaHarpe, and Dallas City)
Political districts
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Illinois's 18th congressional district
The 18th congressional district of Illinois covered central and western Illinois, including all of Jacksonville and Quincy and parts of Bloomington, Peoria, and Springfield. It was last represented by Republican Darin LaHood, who took of ...
* State House District 94
* State Senate District 47
References
United States Census Bureau 2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles*
United States National Atlas
External links
Township Officials of Illinois
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Townships in Hancock County, Illinois
Townships in Illinois