Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

Township in Illinois, United States

40°26′51″N 87°38′45″W / 40.44750°N 87.64583°W / 40.44750; -87.64583CountryUnited StatesStateIllinoisCountyVermilionCreated1862Area

• Total86.69 sq mi (224.5 km²) • Land86.66 sq mi (224.4 km²) • Water0.03 sq mi (0.08 km²) 0.03%Elevation

696 ft (212 m)Population

(2010)

• Estimate

(2016)^[1]

5,781 • Density69.6/sq mi (26.9/km²)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)FIPS code17-183-30965

Grant Township is a township in Vermilion County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,028 and it contained 2,817 housing units.^[2]

History

Grant Township was originally called Lyon Township but it was changed in 1862 to honor Ulysses S. Grant. He had just won a surrender by Confederate forces at Fort Donelson in Tennessee.^[3]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 86.69 square miles (224.5 km²), of which 86.66 square miles (224.4 km²) (or 99.97%) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.078 km²) (or 0.03%) is water.^[2]

Cities and towns

Hoopeston
Rossville (north quarter)

Unincorporated towns

Cheneyville

Extinct towns

Coalton
Heaton

Adjacent townships

Hickory Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana (northeast)
Prairie Green Township, Iroquois County (northeast)
Prairie Township, Warren County, Indiana (east)
Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana (southeast)
Ross Township (south)
Butler Township (west)
Fountain Creek Township, Iroquois County (northwest)
Lovejoy Township, Iroquois County (northwest)

Cemeteries

The township contains one cemetery, Redtop.

Major highways

Airports and landing strips

Beckley Airfield
Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital Heliport

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2016 (est.)	5,781	^[1]
U.S. Decennial Census^[4]

References

U.S. Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)
United States Census Bureau cartographic boundary files

^ ^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.
^ Callary, Edmund (2009). Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-252-03356-8.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.