Council Hill Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois

Jo Daviess County

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The Council Hill Township is one of 23 townships in Jo Daviess County in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Illinois.

Geography

The Council Hill Township is located in northwest Illinois on the border with Wisconsin. The west of the township is traversed by a small section of the Galena River. The border with Iowa, which is formed from the Mississippi River, located approximately 20 km to the west.

The Council Hill Township is located at 42 ° 28'38 " north latitude and 90 ° 21'03 " west longitude and extending over 42.43 km ².

The Council Hill Township is bordered Jo Daviess County within the east by the Scales Mound Township, to the southeast by the Guilford Township, on the south by the East Galena Township, on the southwest by the Rawlins Township and on the west by the Vinegar Hill Township. In the north, Lafayette County is located in Wisconsin.

Traffic

By Council Hill Township run no highways. A number of partly unpaved County Roads run through the Township.

In west-east direction passing through a railway line of the Canadian National Railway, the Council Hill Township.

The nearest airports are about 45 km to the west located in Iowa Dubuque Regional Airport and about 30 northerly Platteville Municipal Airport.

Population

In the census of 2010, the Township had 141 inhabitants. Within the Council Hill Township, there are only scattered unincorporated settlement.

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