Whitewater Township (Cape Girardeau County, Missouri)
Cape Girardeau County
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The Whitewater Township is one of 10 townships in Cape Girardeau County in the southeast of the U.S. state of Missouri.
Geography
The Whitewater Township is located approximately 35 km west 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 Whitewater Township is located at 37 ° 27'10 " north latitude and 89 ° 48'16 " west longitude and extending over 94.54 km ², spread over 94.41 km ² land and 0.13 km ² water surface.
The Whitewater Township is drained by the Whitewater River, which flows at Whitewater in the more southern Hubble Township in the Headwater Diversion Channel. In the north of Whitewater Township, the Maintz Wildlife Preserve, a 342 -acre recreation area is located. In the center of the Township of Cedar Lake, which was created by damming a tributary of the Whitewater River is located.
The Whitewater Township borders within the Cape Girardeau County in the north and northeast on the Apple Creek Township, on the east by the Byrd Township, and on the south by the children Township. In the West, the Township is adjacent to the Bollinger County.
Traffic
From southeast to northwest the Missouri State Route 72 runs through the entire Whitewater Township, where it meets a number of subordinate partly unpaved roads.
The nearest airport is around 35 km south-east of the township located in Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.
Population
In the census in 2010, the township had 1335 inhabitants. In addition to scattered settlements exist within the Whitewater Township several unincorporated settlements:
- Hartle Ford
- Kurreville
- Millersville
- Reynolds Ford