Shawnee Township (Cape Girardeau County, Missouri)
Cape Girardeau County
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The Shawnee Township is one of 10 townships in Cape Girardeau County in the southeast of the U.S. state of Missouri.
Geography
The Shawnee 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 around 90 km south-east.
The Shawnee Township is located at 37 ° 30'54 " north latitude and 89 ° 36'51 " west longitude and extending over 239.21 km ², spread over 234.05 km ² land and 5.16 km ² water surface.
In the southeast of Shawnee Township, the Trail of Tears State Park, the southern half is already in Randol Township is located.
The Shawnee Township borders within the Cape Girardeau County to the south of Randol Township, to the southwest by the Byrd Township and on the west by the Apple Creek Township. In the north, bordering the Township to the Perry County; 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. Running parallel to U.S. Highway 61, from the Missouri State Route 177 branches off to the east.
By Shawnee Township runs a railway line of the BNSF Railway, which runs along the entire reaches of the Mississippi.
The nearest airport is around 35 km south of the township located in Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.
Population
In the census in 2010, the township had 3910 inhabitants. In addition to scattered settlements exist within the Shawnee Township following settlements:
Village
- Pocahontas
Unincorporated communities
- Fruitland1
- Leemon
- Moccasin Springs
- Neelys Landing
- New Wells
- Shawneetown
1 - to a small extent in the Byrd Township