Lamine Township, Cooper County, Missouri


Lamine Township is one of 14 civil townships in Cooper County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Twenty-two of Missouri's 114 counties, including Cooper County, have . The other 92 counties have townships which are geographical but not governmental. According to the 1860 Census, the population of Lamine Township was . As of the 2010 Census, Lamine Township's population was 268, a decrease from the 2000 Census population of 289.
The township takes its name from the Lamine River.
The only town in the Lamine Township is the unincorporated community of Lamine.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, Lamine Township covers an area of 40.86 square miles ; of this, 39.5 square miles is land and 1.36 square miles is water.

History

On June 8, 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition traveling on the Missouri River arrived at the mouth of the LaMine River in what would come to be known as the Lamine Township.
LaMine was settled in 1811 by Revolutionary War veteran David Jones, his son-in-law Stephen Turley, Jesse B. Turley, Samuel Turley, Thomas McMahan, James McMahan, William Reid, and Saunders Townsend In 1812 or 1813 there was a Fort McMahan in the Lamine Township, exact location unknown.
On March 2, 1819 Stephen Turley was granted a license to operate a ferry across the Lamine River.
On March 2, 1819 John Potter was appointed constable of Lamine Township by the Cooper County Court. On April 9, 1821 Bryant T. Nolan was appointed constable of the Lamine Township by the Cooper County Court.
The first will probated by Cooper County was that of Thomas McMahan, a resident of the Lamine Township in 1821.
over the Lamine River in Lamine was built in 1906 and replaced in 1937. One span of the bridge was sold to Boone County, Missouri and is on Moon Valley Road over Hinkson Creek. The other span now crosses the Petite Saline Creek near Gooch's Mill.

Unincorporated towns

The township contains at least the following cemeteries: