Swea Township, Kossuth County, Iowa

Swea Township is a township in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States.

History

Swea Township was established in 1886. As the name Swea suggests, the township was originally settled largely by Swedes.^[1]

↑ Reed, Benjamin F. (1913). History of Kossuth County, Iowa, Volume 1. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 710.

Municipalities and communities of Kossuth County, Iowa, United States

County seat: Algona

Cities	Algona Bancroft Burt Fenton Lakota Ledyard Lone Rock Lu Verne‡ Swea City Titonka Wesley West Bend‡ Whittemore

Townships	Buffalo Burt Cresco Eagle Fenton Garfield German Grant Greenwood Harrison Hebron Irvington Ledyard Lincoln Lotts Creek Lu Verne Plum Creek Portland Prairie Ramsey Riverdale Seneca Sherman Springfield Swea Union Wesley Whittemore

CDPs	Irvington Sexton St. Benedict St. Joseph

Unincorporated communities	Galbraith Gerled

Ghost town	Plum Creek

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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