Silver Creek Township
Township
Location in Stephenson County
Location in Stephenson County
Coordinates: 42°14′48″N 89°34′01″W / 42.24667°N 89.56694°W / 42.24667; -89.56694
CountryUnited States
StateIllinois
CountyStephenson
Government
 • SupervisorLee Runte
Area
 • Total35 sq mi (90 km2)
 • Land34.98 sq mi (90.6 km2)
 • Water0.02 sq mi (0.05 km2)  0.06%
Elevation
823 ft (251 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Estimate 
(2016)[1]
666
 • Density19.9/sq mi (7.7/km2)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
FIPS code17-177-69953

Silver Creek Township is a township in Stephenson County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 696 and it contained 332 housing units.[2][3]

Geography

Silver Creek is Townships 26 and 27 (part) North, Range 8 East of the Fourth Principal Meridian.

Silver Creek Township is located at 42°14′48″N 89°34′01″W / 42.24667°N 89.56694°W / 42.24667; -89.56694 at an elevation of 823 feet (251 meters). According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 35 square miles (91 km2), of which 34.98 square miles (90.6 km2) (or 99.94%) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.052 km2) (or 0.06%) is water.[2] Silver Creek Township borders the city of Freeport, the county seat of Stephenson County, to the northwest.[4]

History

Thomas Craine first settled Silver Creek Township in August 1835.[5]

Mills

Brown's Mill was built four miles east of Freeport on the Pecatonica River by Caleb W. Brown in 1857. The stone grist mill closed in 1903 and was converted to a power plant by A.J. Goddard in 1908. For a short time it generated power for the street car system in Freeport. After a fire in 1950 partially destroyed the building it was rebuilt and converted to a residence. It was still standing on Brown's Mill Road in 2014.[6]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2016 (est.)666[1]
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

As of the census of 2000,[3] there were 739 people, 293 households, and 219 families in Silver Creek Township.

References

  1. 1 2 "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "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.
  3. 1 2 "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  4. ↑ Stephenson County, Illinois General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Illinois Department of Transportation. 2009. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ Fulwider, Addison L. (1910). History of Stephenson County, Illinois: Volume 1. p. 391.
  6. ↑ History of Stephenson County 1970. Freeport, Illinois: County of Stephenson, 1972. p. 196, illus.
  7. ↑ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.


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