Jackson Township, Carroll County, Indiana
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Jackson Township is one of fourteen townships in Carroll County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,387 (slightly down from 1,391 at 2010[4]) and it contained 523 housing units.
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Coordinates: 40°35′50″N 86°31′43″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Indiana |
County | Carroll |
Government | |
• Type | Indiana township |
Area | |
• Total | 30.11 sq mi (78.0 km2) |
• Land | 30.1 sq mi (78 km2) |
• Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
Elevation | 620 ft (189 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,387 |
• Density | 46/sq mi (18/km2) |
FIPS code | 18-36828[3] |
GNIS feature ID | 453434 |
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It is uncertain how or for whom the township was named, but Adam Porter, one of the township's earliest settlers who arrived in the late 1820s, is described as hailing from Jackson Township, Virginia, and may have named it.[5]