Garden Plain Township, Whiteside County, Illinois

Whiteside County

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The Garden Plain Township is one of 22 townships in Whiteside County in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, the Garden Plain Township 1072 inhabitants.

Geography

The Garden Plain Township is located in northwest Illinois on the east bank of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa. The border with Wisconsin is located about 100 km north.

The Garden Plain Township is located at 41 ° 47'59 " north latitude and 90 ° 08'16 " west longitude and extends over 81.8 km ², spread to 79.5 km ² land and 2.3 km ² water surface.

The Garden Plain Township is located in the west of Whiteside County and is bordered to the west separated by the Mississippi River to the Clinton County in Iowa. Within the Whiteside County, the Garden Plain Township is bordered to the north by the Fulton Township, in the northeast on the Ustick Township, on the east by the Union Grove Township, to the southeast by the Fenton Township, on the south by the Newton Township and on the southwest by the Albany Township.

Traffic

Through the Garden Plain Township runs in an east -west direction of U.S. Highway 30, which crosses from the east via the Gateway Bridge, the Mississippi toward Clinton in Iowa to the west. Along the Mississippi River by the Garden Plain Township here the Illinois section of the Great River Road forming Illinois State Route 84 All other roads are County Roads or more subordinate and partly unpaved roadways.

Through the Garden Plain Township run two railway lines of the BNSF Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. About parallel to the Gateway Bridge running Clinton Railroad Bridge, the Union Pacific crosses the Mississippi to the west.

The nearest major airport is around 60 km south-west of the township situated Quad City International Airport.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in the Garden Plain Township 1072 people in 433 households. The population density was 13.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 433 households lived statistically 2.48 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 96.5 percent white, 0.4 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 1.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.4 percent were 65 years or older. 46.5 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 57,331. The per capita income was $ 40,895. 7.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places

In addition to scattered settlements the inhabitants of the Garden Plain Township live in the following localities:

City

• Fulton1

Village

• Albany2

Unincorporated communities

• East Clinton
• Garden Plain

1 - predominantly in Fulton Township 2 - predominantly in Albany Township