Lincoln, the northeast township in Daviess county, is located mostly in township sixty-one of range twenty-six. One mile wide, however, running across the north part of the township its entire width is in congressional township No. 62. It contains some of the most beautiful tracts of land to be found in Daviess or any other county. A magnificent prairie, gently undulating, giving it a natural drainage and at the same time giving the whole country a beautiful and picturesque appearance to the eye of the traveler as he passes through its well cultivated fields and views the pleasant homes and well kept fences of its energetic and industrious citizens. Lincoln township, like nearly all of the others in the county, is in size a congressional township, being six miles square. It is bounded on the north by Harrison county, on the east by Grundy county, on the south by Jamesport, and on the west by Washington township, and has thirty-six sections or twenty-three thousand and forty acres of which the assessor returns twenty-three thousand and thirty-eight and nineteen one-hundredth acres.
Lincoln Township Resources
- Lincoln Township
- Firsts of Lincoln Township
- Bancroft
- Lincoln Official Record
- Lincoln Township Biographies
- First Settlement of Lincoln Township
- Lincoln Township Churches
- Lincoln Township Schools
Back to: Daviess County