Bethlehem Township is one of fourteen

townships A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

Cass County, Indiana Cass County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 37,870. The county seat is Logansport, Indiana, Logansport. Cass County comprises the Logansport, IN Mi ...

. As of the 2020 census, its population was 745 (down from 795 at

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

) and contained 322 housing units.

History

Bethlehem Township was organized in 1836. It was named for an early settler's native hometown of

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bethlehem is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton and Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Bethle ...

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.86%) is land and (or 0.11%) is water.

Unincorporated towns

Metea Chief Metea or Me-te-a () (floruit, fl. 1812–1827) (Potawatomi language, Potawatomi: ''Mdewé'' "Sulks") was one of the principal chiefs of the Potawatomi during the early 19th century. He frequently acted as spokesman at treaty councils. ...

Adjacent townships

* Liberty Township, Fulton County (northeast) *

Adams Adams may refer to: * For persons, see Adams (surname) Places United States *Adams, California *Adams, California, former name of Corte Madera, California * Adams, Decatur County, Indiana *Adams, Kentucky *Adams, Massachusetts, a New England to ...

(east) *

Clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...

(south) *

Noble A noble is a member of the nobility. Noble may also refer to: Places Antarctica * Noble Glacier, King George Island * Noble Nunatak, Marie Byrd Land * Noble Peak, Wiencke Island * Noble Rocks, Graham Land Australia * Noble Island, Gr ...

(southwest) *

Harrison Harrison may refer to: People * Harrison (name) * Harrison family of Virginia, United States Places Australia * Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin Canada * Inukjuak, Quebec, or "Port H ...

(west) * Wayne Township, Fulton County (northwest)

Major highways

Indiana State Road 16 State Road 16 (SR 16) is an east–west state road in the US state of Indiana. The western terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), near Ade, and its eastern terminus is at SR 5, near Huntington. The state road runs thr ...

Indiana State Road 25 State Road 25 is a highway in the U. S. state of Indiana. Although it is designated a north–south road, in practice it travels generally northeast from its southern terminus at State Road 32 (south of Waynetown and north of Shades Sta ...

References

*
United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files

External links

{{authority control Townships in Cass County, Indiana Townships in Indiana Populated places established in 1836 1836 establishments in Indiana