Kinder Township is one of ten townships in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 999. It contains the census-designated place of Burfordville.
Kinder Township was founded in 1872. The township has the name of the Kinder family, early settlers.
Kinder Township covers an area of and contains no incorporated settlements. Known cemeteries include Allen, Braugkmann, Calvary, Cauvey, Deck, Fairview, Gravel Hill 1, Gravel Hill 2, Haynes Chapel, Heuer 2/Foster/Huey, Krueger, McGuire/Helderman, Proffer 2, Proffer 3, Reineke, Schatte, Scriptural Evangelical Lutheran, Stausing.
The streams of Byrd Creek, Dillard Creek, Little Whitewater Creek, McGuire Branch and Schroder Branch run through this township.