Pontoosuc Township is one of twenty-four
townships
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
in
Hancock County,
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
,
USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 413 and it contained 227 housing units.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 92.95%) is land and (or 7.05%) is water.
Cities, towns, villages
*
Dallas City (partial)
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Pontoosuc
Cemeteries
The township contains these four cemeteries: Little Family, Myers, Pontoosuc and Tull.
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 ...
Airports and landing strips
* Rhea RLA Airport
Demographics
School districts
* Nauvoo-Colusa Community Unit School District 325
Political districts
*
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