title: Kankakee Township, LaPorte County, Indiana
text: # Kankakee Township, LaPorte County, Indiana
  
  Kankakee Township is one of twenty-one townships in LaPorte County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,830 and it contained 1,859 housing units.
  
  The first settlements were made in Kankakee Township in the 1830s. The northeast corner of LaPorte, Indiana, is located within the southwestern corner of the township.
  
  ## Geography
  
  According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 30.69 square miles (79.5 $km^2),$ of which 30.55 square miles (79.1 $km^2)$ (or 99.54%) is land and 0.14 square miles (0.36 $km^2)$ (or 0.46%) is water.
  
  