title: Liberty Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
text: # Liberty Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
  
  Liberty Township is one of ten townships in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 483.
  
  Liberty Township was established in 1848, and named for the American principle of liberty.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Liberty Township covers an area of 25.58 square miles (66.3 $km^2)$ and contains no incorporated settlements. It contains eight cemeteries: Borneman, Crump, Passover, Proffer, Proffer, Spivey, Stoder and Stroderville.
  
  The streams of Gizzard Creek and Hog Creek run through this township.
  
  