Guthrie Township, Callaway County, Missouri

Township in Missouri, United States

Guthrie Township

Township

Coordinates: 38°46′03″N 092°07′18″W﻿ / ﻿38.76750°N 92.12167°W﻿ / 38.76750; -92.12167Coordinates: 38°46′03″N 092°07′18″W﻿ / ﻿38.76750°N 92.12167°W﻿ / 38.76750; -92.12167
Country| United States
State| Missouri
County| Callaway
Area

• Total| 19.65 sq mi (50.9 km2)
• Land| 19.61 sq mi (50.78 km2)
• Water| 0.05 sq mi (0.12 km2)  0.24%
Elevation

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| 761 ft (232 m)
Population

(2010)

• Total| 604
• Density| 31/sq mi (12/km2)
FIPS code| 29-29800[2]
GNIS feature ID| 0766378

This article is on the Guthrie Township. For information on the town of Guthrie, within the township, see Guthrie, Missouri.

Guthrie Township is one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 604.[3]

Guthrie Township has the name of a local family.[4]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Geography
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

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The town of Guthrie was established in 1872 as 'Bigbee' and then renamed 'Guthrie' in 1874.(See Missouri State Historical Society page on Callaway County place names.) The larger Guthrie Township surrounding the town of the same name was created sometime between 1883[5] and 1897[6] from what was before then approximately the southern one-third of Round Prairie Township (reduced in size thereafter), plus a narrow adjacent strip of northern Cedar Township. This is critical to determining exact locations in historical and genealogical research.

## Geography

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Guthrie Township covers an area of 19.65 square miles (50.9 km2) and while containing no incorporated settlements, it does include the unincorporated community of Guthrie (named Bigbee at time of its establishment). The stream of Dry Fork runs through this township, where the removal of the Chicago & Alton Railroad tracks and station affected the community substantially, and the community was absorbed largely into the economy of nearby New Bloomfield in neighboring Cedar Township.

## References

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1. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
3. ^ "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Guthrie township, Callaway County, Missouri". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
4. ^ "Callaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
5. ^ "Title Page".
6. ^ Callaway Historical Society: "Combined Historical Atlases of Callaway County Missouri 1876-1897-1919". Mt Vernon IN: Windmill Publications (1994).

* USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

## External links

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* US-Counties.com
* City-Data.com
* New Bloomfield Area Historical Society

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Municipalities and communities of Callaway County, Missouri, United States

County seat: Fulton

Cities|

* Auxvasse
* Fulton
* Holts Summit
* Jefferson City‡
* Mokane
* New Bloomfield

Map of Missouri highlighting Callaway County

Village|

* Kingdom City

Townships|

* Auxvasse
* Bourbon
* Caldwell
* Calwood
* Cedar
* Cleveland
* Cote Sans Dessein
* East Fulton
* Guthrie
* Jackson
* Liberty
* McCredie
* Nine Mile Prairie
* Round Prairie
* St. Aubert
* Shamrock
* Summit
* West Fulton

CDP|

* Tebbetts

Other
communities|

* Bachelor
* Boydsville
* Callaway
* Calwood
* Carrington
* Cedar City
* Concord
* Dixie
* Earl
* Folsom
* Guthrie
* Hams Prairie
* Hatton
* Hereford
* Millersburg
* Portland
* Readsville
* Reform
* Shamrock
* Steedman
* Stephens
* Toledo
* Wainwright
* Williamsburg
* Youngers
* Yucatan

Ghost towns|

* Cote Sans Dessein
* Garrett

Footnotes|

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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