White River Township, Gibson County, Indiana

White River Township is one of ten townships in Gibson County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,472 (down from 1,689 at 2010 ) and it contained 723 housing units.

It took its name from the White River.

Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 49.04 sqmi, of which 47.4 sqmi (or 96.66%) is land and 1.63 sqmi (or 3.32%) is water.

Cities and towns

 * Hazleton
 * Patoka

Unincorporated towns
(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
 * East Mount Carmel
 * White River

Adjacent townships
Gibson County Knox County Wabash County, IL
 * Washington Township (east)
 * Patoka Township (south)
 * Montgomery Township (southwest)
 * Decker Township (northwest)
 * Johnson Township (northeast)
 * Mt. Carmel Precinct (west)

Cemeteries
The township contains eight cemeteries: Barnett, Decker Chapel, Field, Humphrey, Milburn, Morrison, Robb and Trippet.

Major highways

 * U.S. Route 41
 * State Road 56
 * State Road 64

Airports and landing strips

 * Hull Airport

Education
White River Township is served by the North Gibson School Corporation, and like neighboring Washington Township also has no schools of its own since the early 1970s.

Prior to 1963, Hazleton High School and Patoka High School had students from the township. That year, those two schools merged into White River High School, which had the school colors as red, white, and blue and the mascots as the Little Giants. In 1965, that school in turn merged into Princeton Community High School. Nathan Blackford of Evansville Living described White River High as "Possibly the shortest-lived high school of the consolidation era" as many school districts and schools in 1960s Indiana were merging with one another.