Jenkins Township, Mitchell County, Iowa

Jenkins Township is a township in Mitchell County, Iowa, USA.[1]

History

Jenkins Township was established in 1857. It is named for Col. James Doran Jenkins, registrar of the U.S. Land office at Osage at that time.[2]

gollark: Although outside of pure parsing ambiguity it does help distinguish people you're referring to in "real life".
gollark: Yes, sentences where it makes a difference are quite rare and also typically rather confusing anyway.
gollark: Also stuff like "Mr" and "Mrs".
gollark: Technically, the language as it can be spoken doesn't require it. However, the language as practically spoken involves them a lot, both as it's convention and because it can disambiguate slightly in certain odd sentences.
gollark: It is also possibly partly due to English bad.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jenkins Township, Mitchell County, Iowa
  2. Clyde, Jefferson F. (1918). History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, Volume 1. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 173.



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