Goose Creek Township, Piatt County, Illinois

Township in Illinois, United States

40°06′16″N 88°38′21″W / 40.10444°N 88.63917°W / 40.10444; -88.63917CountryUnited StatesStateIllinoisCountyPiattEstablishedNovember 8, 1859Area

• Total56.32 sq mi (145.9 km²) • Land56.3 sq mi (146 km²) • Water0.01 sq mi (0.03 km²) 0.02%Elevation

699 ft (213 m)Population

(2010)

• Estimate

(2016)^[1]

767 • Density14/sq mi (5/km²)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)FIPS code17-147-30523

Goose Creek Township is a township in Piatt County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 790 and it contained 355 housing units.^[2]

Ameren's Goose Creek Energy Center, a combustion turbine generator (CTG) power plant, is located in Goose Creek Township.^[3]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 56.32 square miles (145.9 km²), of which 56.3 square miles (146 km²) (or 99.96%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.026 km²) (or 0.02%) is water.^[2]

Cities and towns

De Land

Adjacent townships

Santa Anna Township, DeWitt County (north)
Blue Ridge Township (northeast)
Sangamon Township (east)
Monticello Township (southeast)
Willow Branch Township (south)
Friends Creek Township, Macon County (southwest)
Nixon Township, DeWitt County (west)
DeWitt Township, DeWitt County (northwest)

Cemeteries

The township contains eight cemeteries: Deland, Dillow Family, Dooley Family, Kentuck, Marquiss, Morain, Mosgrove and Old Monticello.

Major highways

References

^ "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
^ http://www.ameren.com/source/AboutUs/Pages/ADC_CTGs.aspx^{[permanent dead link]}
^ http://www.cilco.com/AboutUs/ADC_AU_FactSheet.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}