Randol Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

Cape Girardeau County

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The Randol Township is one of 10 townships in Cape Girardeau County in the southeast of the U.S. state of Missouri.

Geography

The Randol Township is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Illinois. The mouth of the Ohio at Cairo at the interface of the states of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky is located approximately 70 km south-east.

The Randol Township is located at 37 ° 23'17 " north latitude and 89 ° 32'45 " west longitude and extending over 173.31 km ², spread over 169.11 km ² land and 4.2 km ² water surface.

In the northeast of Randol Township, the Trail of Tears State Park, whose northern half is already in the Shawnee Township is located.

The Randol Township borders within the Cape Girardeau County in the south to the Cape Girardeau Township, on the west by the Byrd Township and the north by the Shawnee Township. To the east of the Mississippi River forms the border with the Union County in Illinois.

Traffic

Thanks to the southwest of the Township Interstate 55, which forms the shortest route from St. Louis to Memphis runs. Further east, running parallel to the Mississippi, the Missouri State Route 177

By Randol Township runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway, which runs along the entire reaches of the Mississippi.

The nearest airport is around 25 km south of the township located in Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.

Population

In the census in 2010, the township had 4431 inhabitants. In addition to scattered settlements, the northern border areas of Cape Girardeau and the eastern suburban area of Jackson Township exist in the three unincorporated settlements:

• Bainbridge
• Egypt Mills
• Oriole