This area was originally part of Georgetown Township, but growing dissatisfaction with a lack of development in that portion of the township, compared with the Georgetown and Westville areas, led to a petition for creation of a new township in 1912. The name came from McKendree Methodist Church.[3]
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 29.37 square miles (76.1 km2), of which 29.25 square miles (75.8 km2) (or 99.59%) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) (or 0.41%) is water.[2] The stream of White Branch runs through this township.
^Stapp, Katherine; W. I. Bowman (1968). History Under Our Feet: The Story of Vermilion County, Illinois. Danville, Illinois: Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc. p. 27.