Elizabeth Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois

Jo Daviess County

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

Geography

The Elizabeth Township is located in northwestern Illinois. The border with Iowa, which is formed from the Mississippi River, is located less than 5 km west of the southwest lobe of Elizabeth Township. The border with Wisconsin is located about 25 north.

The crossed by the Apple River Elizabeth Township is located at 42 ° 20'02 " north latitude and 90 ° 16'29 " west longitude and extending over 95.44 km ², which is 95.42 km ² on ² land and 0.02 km of water surface distribute.

The Elizabeth Township borders within the Jo Daviess County in the north to the Guilford Township, in the northeast of the Thompson Township, on the east by the Woodbine Township on the southeast by the Derinda Township, imSüden to the Hanover Township, on the west by the Rice Township and in northwest on the East Galena Township.

Traffic

In Elizabeth Township to the Illinois section of the Great River Road forming Illinois State Route 84 and U.S. Highway 20 meet together.

The nearest airports are about 50 km to the west located in Iowa Dubuque Regional Airport, and also some 50 km to the north in Wisconsin Platteville Municipal Airport.

Population

In the census in 2010, the township had 1111 inhabitants.

In addition to individual homes to community Wi reason the only independent municipality Elizabeth is with the status of "Village".