Nineveh Township, Adair County, Missouri  Nineveh Township is one of ten townships in Adair County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,289. The township is named from the town of Nineveh, a German communistic colony that was established in the area in about 1850. Nineveh Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, Novinger. It contains two cemeteries: Nineveh and Novinger. The streams of Brush Creek, Davis Branch, Hazel Creek, Little Hazel Creek, Mulberry Creek, Rye Creek, Shuteye Creek and Spring Creek run through this township.