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Carrollton Township, Carroll County, Missouri

township in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5046668 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carrollton Township is one of twenty townships in Carroll County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,857.

Carrollton Township was established in 1872, and named after the community of Carrollton.

Geography

Carrollton Township covers an area of 35.59 square miles (92.2 km2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Carrollton (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Mount Zion, Saint Marys and Willis Chapel.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Carrollton Township, Carroll County, Missouri” as township in Missouri. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Carrollton, Township and Carroll.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1872—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Carrollton, Township and Carroll providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Carrollton Township, Carroll County, Missouri”, the useful work is to connect “township in Missouri” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5046668. Authority coordinates are 39.368, -93.493. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1872.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carrollton Township, Carroll County, Missouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.