View source for Statesville Township, Iredell County, North Carolina

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|official_name            = Statesville Township
|settlement_type          = [[Civil township|Township]]
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|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in North Carolina|County]]
|subdivision_name         = {{flagicon|USA}}   United States
|subdivision_name1        = {{flagicon|North Carolina}} [[North Carolina]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Iredell County, North Carolina|Iredell]]
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|government_type          = non-functioning subdivision
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|established_title        = Established
|established_date         = 1868
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| image_map                       = File:Map of Iredell County North Carolina With Municipal and Township Labels.PNG
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| map_caption                     = Statesville Township in [[Iredell County, North Carolina|Iredell County]]
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|area_total_sq_mi         = 32.69
|area_land_sq_mi          = 32.52
|area_water_sq_mi         = 0.17
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|population_as_of         = 2010
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|population_total         = 26460
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|population_density_sq_mi = 813.6
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'''Statesville Township''' is a non-functioning administrative division of [[Iredell County, North Carolina|Iredell County]], [[North Carolina]], United States. By the requirements of the North Carolina Constitution of 1868, the counties were divided into [[Civil townships|townships]], which included Statesville township as one of sixteen townships in Iredell county.  The town of [[Statesville, North Carolina]] is contained mostly within Statesville township.<ref name=Constitution>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncleg.net/library/Documents/Constitution_1868.pdf|title=North Carolina Constitution of 1868|accessdate=February 26, 2019}}</ref><ref name=Keever>Keever, Homer M.; ''Iredell Piedmont County'', with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller, published for the Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark, copyright, November 1976, by Homer M. Keever</ref><ref name=HeritageI>''The Heritage of Iredell County, 1980'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 28677, {{ISBN|0-89459-087-1}}, 642 pages with index</ref><ref name='HeritageII'>''The Heritage of Iredell County, NC Vol II, 2000'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 29866, LC # 00-110956, 574 pages with index</ref>
==Geography and demography==
Statesville township contains most of the city of [[Statesville, North Carolina|Statesville]].   According to the 2010 Census, 5,500 of the 26,460 inhabitants of Statesville lived outside the Statesville township.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=2010 Census, Iredell County|website=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=February 27, 2019}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Townships in Iredell County, North Carolina]]
[[Category:Townships in North Carolina]]
[[Category:1868 establishments in North Carolina]]
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