The Twelve Townships  

 Barren Township - was named so because of the brush and waste land at that time. 
 Big Muddy flow through the township.
 Sandusky and Akin made first land entries in 1831.

 Benton Township - was named after the town Benton.
 William King was probably the first settler.
 A.D. Dollins made the first land entry in 1828.

 Browning Township - was named after John Browning,
 who settled on the High Hill in 1814.

 Cave Township - was named after Cave Johnson.
 Francis Jordon, Isaac Moberly and Andy McCreery made first land entries in 1814.

 Denning Township - was named after the Dennings.
 Lewis Baker made first land entry in 1815.

 Eastern Township - was named after the location in the county.
 Thomas Thompson was perhaps the first settler.
 Benjamin C. Fisher made first land entry in 1814.

 Ewing Township - was named in honor of Ewing's Post Office.
 William Frizzel and John Cox made first land entries in 1818.

 Frankfort Township - was named in honor of the first town in the county, Frankfort. 
 Moses Garrett, Elijah Ewing and Thomas Roberts made first land entries in 1815.

 Goode Township - named in honor of Benjamin Goode.
 S. Galloway made his first land entry in 1831.

 Northern Township - was named for its position in the county.
 Eli and Lazarus Webb made first land entries in 1816.

 Six-Mile Township - contains the largest prairie in the county, from which it took its name.
 The government gave Charles Humphrey a tract of land to build a ferry across the Big Muddy in 1811.
 Crawford Burn made first land entry in 1829.

 Tyrone Township - was named after an old steamboat.
 Lewis Silkwood and John Kirkpatrick made first land entries in 1831.
 John Mulkey made the next land entry in 1833.