Colfax Township, Champaign County, Illinois


Colfax Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 266 and it contained 116 housing units.

History

Colfax Township formed from Tolono Township in 1869.

Geography

Colfax is Township 18 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water.
Blue Mound, a glacial kame in Section 7, is the highest point in the township. A pole barn and a few trees are all that remain of the farmstead that once occupied the site.

Unincorporated towns

The township contains six cemeteries: Craw, Davis Memorial, Deadman's Grove, Dunkard, Dunn and Saint Boniface.

Demographics