| Official Name: | White River Township Gibson County |
| Settlement Type: | Township |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gibson |
| Subdivision Type3: | School District |
| Subdivision Name3: | North Gibson School Corporation |
| Government Type: | Indiana township |
| Leader Title: | Trustee |
| Leader Name: | Kim Minkler |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 49.04 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 47.4 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 1.63 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 1472 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 122 |
| Elevation Ft: | 400 |
| Coordinates: | 38.4361°N -87.6103°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Postal Code: | 47649, 47666, 47670 |
| Area Code: | 812 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 18-83888[2] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 454053 |
| Named For: | White River |
White River Township is one of ten townships in Gibson County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,472 (down from 1,689 at 2010[3]) and it contained 723 housing units.[4]
It took its name from the White River.[5]
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which (or 96.66%) is land and (or 3.32%) is water.[3]
(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)
The township contains eight cemeteries: Barnett, Decker Chapel, Field, Humphrey, Milburn, Morrison, Robb and Trippet.
White River Township is served by the North Gibson School Corporation,[6] and like neighboring Washington Township also has no schools of its own since the early 1970s.
Prior to 1963, Hazleton High School and Patoka High School had students from the township. That year, those two schools merged into White River High School, which had the school colors as red, white, and blue and the mascots as the Little Giants. In 1965, that school in turn merged into Princeton Community High School. Nathan Blackford of Evansville Living described White River High as "Possibly the shortest-lived high school of the consolidation era" as many school districts and schools in 1960s Indiana were merging with one another.[7]