# Laketown Township *Township in Carver County, Minnesota, United States* Laketown Township is a civil township of [[Carver County, Minnesota]], in the U.S. state of [[Minnesota]]. The 2020 census counted 1,966 residents there.[^1] The township was organized in 1858 and takes its name from the many small lakes within it.[^1] The township appears in two entries of the project's at-issue record. The first sets a January 2025 White House presidential action on ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity[^2] beside the 1918 enemy-alien registration of Henrietta and John Gast of Laketown Township. According to a hometownsource.com report, the Gasts' son Ferdinand served in the U.S. military during the same war.[^3] The second sets a March 2026 presidential action establishing a task force to eliminate fraud[^4] beside a Carver County objection to the Metropolitan Council's classification of the township in its [[Imagine 2050]] plan. ## Where Wikipedia reports [[United States Census Bureau]] figures for the township. It covers 30.4 square miles (79 km²) in total, of which 27.7 square miles (72 km²) is land and 2.7 square miles (7.0 km²), or 8.89 percent, is water.[^1] In the Public Land Survey System it occupies Township 116 North, Range 24 West of the Fifth Principal Meridian.[^1] The western edge of [[Chaska]] and the western half of Victoria fall inside the township's geographic boundaries. Both cities are governed separately from the township.[^1] Lakes wholly or partly in the township include Lake Auburn (west quarter), Lake Waconia (east quarter), Lake Bavaria (southern half), Wasserman Lake (west three-quarters), and Lunstein, Marsh, Mud, Parley, Piersons, Reitz and Turbid lakes.[^1] The township borders Dahlgren Township to the south, [[Benton Township]] to the southwest, Waconia Township to the west and Watertown Township to the northwest.[^1] Minnesota State Highway 5 is its major highway. Coney Island is an unincorporated community within it, and it contains Scandia Cemetery.[^1] Most of the township falls in the Waconia Public School District, and the rest in the Eastern Carver County Public Schools district. Crown College is located in the township.[^1] ## How many At the 2000 census the township had 2,331 residents in 637 households, 545 of them families. Population density was 84.2 people per square mile, and there were 665 housing units.[^1] The 2020 census count was 1,966.[^1] The 2000 census recorded the population as 96.48 percent White, 1.80 percent Asian, 0.64 percent African American, 0.26 percent Pacific Islander, 0.09 percent Native American, 0.09 percent from other races and 0.64 percent from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race made up 0.90 percent.[^1] In 2000, 42.4 percent of households had children under 18, and the median age was 32.[^1] ## How much In 2000 the township's median household income was $75,000 and its median family income was $78,577. Per capita income was $27,543.[^1] About 1.5 percent of families and 1.8 percent of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under 18.[^1] ## In the at-issue record **AI-Carver-044 (1918 registration).** According to a hometownsource.com report, over 480,000 German "enemy aliens" registered nationwide under President Wilson's 1918 proclamation. Among them were Henrietta and John Gast of Laketown Township, who had emigrated from Prussia in 1888. Their son Ferdinand served in the U.S. military during the war.[^3] The report and the record describe the proclamation's twelve regulations as restricting firearms, requiring residency permits in designated zones and authorizing arrest without formal proceedings.[^3] The at-issue record pairs this entry with the January 2025 presidential action on ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity.[^2] **AI-Carver-061 (*Imagine 2050*).** The record states that Carver County filed five comments on the Metropolitan Council's *Imagine 2050* plan. One of them objected to the Council's designation of Laketown Township as "Diversified Rural" while other townships were designated "Agricultural." As quoted in the record, the county wrote that "There is no distinction in the County Comprehensive Plan between any of the Townships," a treatment it dated to the 1970s. The record describes the result as the reclassification of a township the county had treated identically for fifty years. It cites a Metropolitan Council document as its source for the comment. The record pairs this entry with the March 2026 presidential action establishing a task force to eliminate fraud.[^4] ## In the Minnesota record ### Where - Laketown Township lies in Carver County. Parts of Chaska and Victoria fall within its geographic boundaries.[^1] - Laketown Township, Carver County, was the residence of Henrietta and John Gast, registered as German "enemy aliens" under the 1918 proclamation, according to hometownsource.com.[^3] - Laketown Township was designated "Diversified Rural" in the Metropolitan Council's *Imagine 2050* plan, as stated in at-issue record AI-Carver-061. ## Notes [^1]: Wikipedia contributors, *Laketown Township, Carver County, Minnesota* (revision 1379458653, retrieved 2026-10-28) — township population, organization, geography, census demographics, income and education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laketown_Township,_Carver_County,_Minnesota [^2]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (January 2025) — the presidential action the at-issue record pairs with entry AI-Carver-044. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/ [^3]: hometownsource.com (Sun Patriot), *Immigration enforcement operation has parallels in WW1 history* — reports the 1918 registration of over 480,000 German "enemy aliens," including Henrietta and John Gast of Laketown Township (emigrated from Prussia, 1888), whose son Ferdinand served in the U.S. military, and describes the proclamation's regulations. https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_patriot/community/immigration-enforcement-operation-has-parallels-in-ww1-history/article_3eaddaff-38b1-4277-a2ce-edb008aa5534.html [^4]: The White House, *Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud* (March 2026) — the presidential action the at-issue record pairs with entry AI-Carver-061. It does not document the Carver County comment. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/establishing-the-task-force-to-eliminate-fraud/