St. Aubert Township, Callaway County, Missouri

Township in the American state of Missouri

Township in Missouri, United States

38°43′31″N 091°53′49″W / 38.72528°N 91.89694°W / 38.72528; -91.89694CountryUnited StatesStateMissouriCountyCallawayArea

• Total57.36 sq mi (148.55 km²) • Land56.65 sq mi (146.71 km²) • Water0.71 sq mi (1.84 km²) 1.24%Elevation

^[1]

725 ft (221 m)Population

(2010)

• Total1,969 • Density34/sq mi (13/km²)FIPS code29-64010^[2]GNIS feature ID0766384

Saint Aubert Township is one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,969.^[3]

St. Aubert is an old variant name of Mokane, Missouri.^[4]

Geography

Saint Aubert Township covers an area of 57.36 square miles (148.6 km²) and contains the incorporated settlement named Mokane, as well as the unincorporated settlement of Hams Prairie, plus other rural homes.

History

The exact founding date of St Aubert Township is still to be determined by detailed local historical records, but it can be broadly estimated from historical publications. The township shows as extant on the 1876 official map of Callaway County,^[5] and its largest town (formerly called Smith's Landing, and now called Mokane) took on the name Saint Aubert around 1849, which may or may not be relevant to the formation of the township from what was the southern sector of Fulton Township (now East Fulton Township) immediately prior to its formation, and briefly part of Cote Sans Dessein Township during early 1821, near the time of Missouri statehood.^[6]

References

^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), St. Aubert township, Callaway County, Missouri". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
^ "Callaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society (1994). Combined Atlases of Callaway County Missouri 1876-1897-1919, Indexed. Mt Vernon IN: Windmill Publications, Inc.
^ Missouri State Library (1884). History of Callaway County, Missouri. St Louis MO: National Historical Company.