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Artesia Township, Iroquois County, Illinois

Township in Illinois, United States

40°36′26″N 88°01′03″W / 40.60722°N 88.01750°W / 40.60722; -88.01750CountryUnited StatesStateIllinoisCountyIroquoisEstablishedBefore 1921Area

• Total57.42 sq mi (148.7 km²) • Land57.36 sq mi (148.6 km²) • Water0.06 sq mi (0.2 km²) 0.10%Elevation

682 ft (208 m)Population

(2010)

• Estimate

(2016)^[1]

889 • Density16.5/sq mi (6.4/km²)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)ZIP codes

60918, 60924, 60955, 60968

FIPS code17-075-02401

Artesia Township is one of twenty-six townships in Iroquois County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 945 and it contained 428 housing units.^[2] Artesia Township formed from portions of Ash Grove and Loda townships sometime prior to 1921.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 57.42 square miles (148.7 km²), of which 57.36 square miles (148.6 km²) (or 99.90%) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km²) (or 0.10%) is water.^[2]

Cities, towns, villages

Buckley

Cemeteries

The township contains these two cemeteries: Lisk and Saint John's Lutheran.

Major highways

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2016 (est.)	889	^[1]
U.S. Decennial Census^[3]

School districts

Cissna Park Community Unit School District 6
Iroquois West Community Unit School District 10
Paxton-Buckley-Loda Community Unit School District 10

Political districts

Illinois' 15th congressional district
State House District 105
State Senate District 53

References

"Artesia Township, Iroquois County, Illinois". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
United States National Atlas

^ ^a ^b "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.