title: Artesia Township, Iroquois County, Illinois
text: # Artesia Township, Iroquois County, Illinois
  
  Artesia Township is one of twenty-six townships in Iroquois County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 945 and it contained 428 housing units. Artesia Township formed from portions of Ash Grove and Loda townships sometime prior to 1921.
  
  ## Geography
  
  According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 57.42 square miles (148.7 $km^2),$ of which 57.36 square miles (148.6 $km^2)$ (or 99.90%) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 $km^2)$ (or 0.10%) is water.
  
  ### Cities, towns, villages
  
  * Buckley
  
  ### Cemeteries
  
  The township contains these two cemeteries: Lisk and Saint John's Lutheran.
  
  ### Major highways
  
  * Interstate 57
  * U.S. Route 45
  
  ## School districts
  
  * Cissna Park Community Unit School District 6
  * Iroquois West Community Unit School District 10
  * Paxton-Buckley-Loda Community Unit School District 10
  
  ## Political districts
  
  * Illinois' 15th congressional district
  * State House District 105
  * State Senate District 53
  