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Huron Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan statistical area, with the city of Sandusky to the northwest. The township sits along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes. As of the 2020 census the population was 10,724.
This category contains articles related to townships in Huron County, Ohio. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Townships taskforce for information about how to write these articles. Pages in category "Townships in Huron County, Ohio"
Huron Township was at the center of the "Firelands" region of the Connecticut Western Reserve.The first permanent settler in the area that became Huron Township was a Quebec-born trapper, trader and interpreter named John Baptiste Flammand (or, "Flemming"; and often misspelled "Flemmond"), who established a trading post about 1805, approx. two miles inland upon the east bank of the Huron River.
Townsend Township was named for Kneeland Townsend, a large landowner. Townsend was a resident of New Haven, CT. East Haven, CT patriots whose homes were torched by Hessian and British troops on July 5, 1779, were awarded by CT colony land in the CT Western Reserve of Ohio. Townsend bought those 22,000 acres which he named after himself.
New London Township was organized in 1817. It was named after New London, Connecticut, the hometown of many of its pioneer settlers. [4] The township is included in the category of the original Ohio Firelands. It is the only New London Township statewide. [5]
Location of Richmond Township (red) in Huron County, next to the city of Willard (yellow) Coordinates: 41°2′19″N 82°46′24″W / 41.03861°N 82.77333°W / 41.03861; -82 Country
Clarksfield Township is one of the nineteen townships of Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population of the township was 1,578. Geography
The 2018-2019 Ohio Municipal, Township and School Board Roster (maintained by the Ohio Secretary of State) lists 1,308 townships, with a 2010 population totaling 5,623,956. [1] When paper townships are excluded, but name variants counted separately (e.g. "Brush Creek" versus "Brushcreek", "Vermilion" versus "Vermillion"), there are 618 ...