Collinwood Township is a township in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,037 at the 2000 census.
History
Collinwood Township was named after Collinwood, Canada, where the first settlers in the area came from. There is also a Collinwood Lake nearby. For a few years, the township was known as New Virginia (the 1870 U.S. Census lists it as such). In May of 1866, the first settlers came. They were Oliver Rasnick, Henry Fuller, George Fuller, and Jacob, Nancy, and Thomas Hutchins. The town was organized on May 8, 1866. The first Justice of the Peace was Oliver Rasnick. The first death was the child of E. K. and Jane Counts, who were from Virginia. In 1857, John Taylor and Elizabeth Hutchins were the first couple to be married there. Also that year, Alexander Ramsey married Margaret Hutchins. The population was 1,037 in the 2000 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (13.92%) is water.
Collinwood Township is located in Township 118 North of the Arkansas Base Line and Range 29 West of the 5th Principal Meridian.
Demographics
As of the census