Clearspring Township, LaGrange County, Indiana

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|subdivision_name2 = LaGrange

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|area_total_sq_mi = 35.98

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|population_total = 4662

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Clearspring Township is one of eleven townships in LaGrange County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,662, up from 4,181 at the previous census.{{cite web

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|title=Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1

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According to the 2020 "ACS 5-Year Estimates Data Profiles", 38.9% of the township's population spoke only English, while 60.2 spoke an "other [than Spanish] Indo-European language" (basically Pennsylvania German/German).

Clearspring Township was founded in 1837.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVM0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA214 | title=Counties of LaGrange and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical | publisher=F.A. Battey & Company | year=1882 | pages=214}}