Tilden Township is one of sixteen townships in Cherokee County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 194.
History Tilden Township was named after Joseph White Tilden (1819–1903) a pioneer who emigrated first from Lebanon, Connecticut, to Forest Lake, Pennsylvania, to Springfield, Illinois, and then to Winneshiek County, Iowa. In 1866, he claimed as a homestead of section 26, residing there with his wife, Irene Elizabeth West, and five children. They moved to the Washington Territory in 1885.History of Cherokee County, Thomas McCulla, Chicago, the S.J.Clark Publishing Company 1914, pg.536
Geography Tilden Township covers an area of and contains no incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Mount Pleasant and Trinity.
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External links US-Counties.com City-Data.com