Sumner Township
Sumner Township is one of sixteen townships in Buchanan County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 3,148.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 3,340 residents
- Description: township in Buchanan County, Iowa
- Also known as: “Sumner Township, Buchanan County, Iowa” and “Township of Sumner”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Independence Mental Health Institute.
Independence Mental Health Institute
Hospital
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The Independence State Hospital was built in 1873 as the second asylum in the state of Iowa. It is located in Independence, Iowa. The original plan for patients was to relieve crowding from the hospital at Mount Pleasant and to hold alcoholics, geriatrics, drug addicts, mentally ill, and the criminally insane. Independence Mental Health Institute is situated 2½ miles northwest of Sumner Township.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Independence.
Independence
Independence is a city in, and the county seat of, Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. The population was 6,064 at the 2020 census.
Sumner Township
- Category: township of Iowa
- Location: Buchanan, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Sumner Township” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sumner udalerria, Buchanan konderria (Iowa)”
- Basque: “Sumner udalerria, Buchanan konderria”
- Chinese: “薩姆納鎮區 (愛荷華州布坎南縣)”
- Chinese: “薩姆納鎮區”
- French: “Sumner Township”
- German: “Sumner Township”
- Japanese: “サムナー郡区”
- Polish: “Gmina Sumner”
- Romanian: “Districtul civil Sumner, comitatul Buchanan, Iowa”
- Romanian: “Districtul civil Sumner”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Sumner”
- Turkish: “Sumner Township”
- Urdu: “سمنر ٹاؤن شپ، بیوکینن کاؤنٹی، آئیووا”
- Urdu: “سمنر ٹاؤن شپ”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Sumner, Quận Buchanan, Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Sumner”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gatesville and Rowley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Hope Cemetery and State Hospital Cemetery.
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