Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana

Washington Township is one of ten townships in Gibson County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 731 and it contained 326 housing units. Like Wabash Township, Washington Township also has no organized seat within the township, despite its two corporation-worthy towns Mount Olympus and Wheeling. Patoka, in White River Township, serves as the seat.
Washington Township was organized in 1824, and named for President George Washington.

History

The Trippett-Glaze-Duncan-Kolb Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, with a boundary increase in 2009.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water.

Point of Interest

Unincorporated towns

Adjacent townships

Gibson County

Knox County

Johnson Township

Pike County

Cemeteries

The township contains five cemeteries: Armstrong, Kirk, Kirk-McRoberts, Phillips and Richardson.

Major highways

Education

Washington Township is served by the North Gibson School Corporation although not having any schools of its own since the early 1970s.