Marion Township (Ogle County, Illinois)
Ogle County
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The Marion Township is one of 24 townships in Ogle County in the north of the U.S. state of Illinois.
Geography
The Marion Township is located in northern Illinois on the left bank of the Rock River. The Township joins in a southwesterly direction to the suburban area of Rockford, the third largest city in the state. Chicago is located approximately 150 km to the east, the Wisconsin border, about 45 km to the north and the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Iowa, about 80 km to the west.
The Marion Township is located at 42 ° 05'24 " north latitude and 89 ° 13'04 " west longitude and extending over 117.3 km ², spread over 116.0 km ² land and 1.3 km ² water surface.
The Marion Township is located in the north of Ogle County and is bordered to the northeast by the Winnebago County. Within the Ogle County Marion Township is bordered on the east by the Scott Township, to the southeast by the White Rock Township, on the south by Pine Township skirt, isolated in the southwest on the Oregon - Nashua Township, on the west by the Rockvale Township and on the west by the rock River at Byron Township.
Traffic
By Marion Township runs in an east -west direction, the Illinois State Route 72, which crosses in Byron the Rock River in the direction of Byron Township. All other roads are County highways and further subordinate and partly unpaved roadways.
In parallel to State Route 72 runs a railway line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which runs from Chicago to the west.
The nearest airport is around 15 km north-east location, Chicago Rockford International Airport on the southern outskirts of Rockford.
Population
In the census in 2010, the township had 4135 inhabitants. In addition to scattered settlement of the majority of the population lives in two settlements:
- Byron1
- Stillman Valley
1 - predominantly in Byron Township