Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana


Clear Creek Township is one of eleven townships in Monroe County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,000 and it contained 2,674 housing units.

History

was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water.

Unincorporated towns

Monroe County's Clear Creek Town is not located in Clear Creek Township, but rather in Perry Township, just north of Clear Creek Township's border. Both the town and the township are named after the same eponymous creek, which flows from the north to the south through both of them.

Cemeteries

Clear Creek Township Trustee's Office operates three active cemeteries, which includes the marking and selling of plots, marking for headstones, meeting with family members and marking burial sites for their family member, all maintenance, mowing and trimming, filling in grave sites, removing funeral floral arrangements, leveling and sowing grass seed and straw, cleaning up after rain and/or wind storms which blow flowers off grave sites.
Clear Creek Township Trustee's Office has an additional 26 cemeteries in the township. Four cemeteries were moved due to the construction of Lake Monroe.
Deeds are recorded in office of the Recorder of Monroe County.
Thelma Kelley Jeffries
Trustee
Clear Creek Township
Monroe County, Indiana
Clear Creek Township contains 29 cemeteries:
At least four cemeteries were relocated to the Polk Township cemetery due to the construction of Lake Monroe.
BLAC -BLACKWELL/CHAMBERS/PRINCE
Clear Creek - Section 13 > Large cemetery moved to Polk Twp. Cem.
for Lake Monroe. Was located near Nancy Jane bridge.
GOOD -GOODMAN
Clear Creek - Section 27 >Moved to Polk Twp. Cem. for Lake Monroe.
Some maps refer to a cemetery in Clear Creek Section 27 on the very top of the east ridge of the Spillway cut out. We have also had some reports of tombstones on the west ridge but have been unable to locate any.
LIVI -LIVINGSTON/MITCHELL
Clear Creek - Section 26 > Old Otto Mitchell farm, in the town of Fairfax, 3 graves moved to Polk Twp Cem. for Lake Monroe.
SCAR -SCARBAUGH/DAN FOX
Clear Creek - Section 26 > Moved to Polk Twp Cem. for Lake Monroe.

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