A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets
Past and Present
of Barton County, Missouri

Compiled by Arthur Paul Moser


Barton County

[B]

Townships

On the 8th of April, 1872, the county court made the following order:

All of Township 33 N, Range 29 W, shall constitute Milford Township.

All of Township 33 N, Range 30 W, shall constitute Doylesport Township.

All of Township 33 N, Range 31 W, shall constitute Union Township.

All of Township 33 N, Range 32 W, shall constitute Barton City Township.

All of Township 33 N, Range 33 W, shall constitute Le Roy Township.

All of Township 32 N, Range 33 W, shall constitute Washington Township; changed February 8, 1873, to Ozark Township.

All of Township 32 N, Range 32 W, and the west half of Township 32 N, Range 31 W, shall constitute Central Township.

All of Township 32 N, Range 30 W, and the east half of Township 32 N, Range 31 N, and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Township 31 N, in Range 30 W, and Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, all west of river in 13, in Township 31 N, Range 31 W, shall constitute Lamar Township.

All of Township 32 N, Range 29 W, in this county, shall constitute New Port Township.

All of Township 31 N, Range 29 W, in this county, and all of Township 30 N, Range 29 W, in this county, shall constitute Golden City Township.

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All of Townships 7 to 36 inclusive in Township 31 N, Range 30 W, in this county, and all of Township 31 N, Range 31 W, east of Muddy Creek, and all of Township 30 N, Range 31 W, east of Muddy Creek, shall constitute Richland Township.

All the remaining Townships 30 and 31 N, of Range 31 W, shall constitute North Fork Township.

All of Township 31 N, Range 32 W, and all of Township 30 N, Range 32 W, in this county, shall constitute Nashville Township.

On the 16th of November, 1874, Southwest Township was formed as follows: All of Township 30 N, Range 33 W, as is in this county, and all of Township 31 N, Range 33 W. (--State of Mo., Hist. of Barton Co., pp. 510, 511.)


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