Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio

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Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio
Township
Location of Huron Township (red) in Erie County, adjacent to the city of Huron (yellow).
Location of Huron Township (red) in Erie County, adjacent to the city of Huron (yellow).
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Country United States
State Ohio
County Erie
Area
 • Total 27.8 sq mi (72.0 km2)
 • Land 23.7 sq mi (61.3 km2)
 • Water 4.1 sq mi (10.7 km2)
Elevation[1] 594 ft (181 m)
Population (2000)
 • Total 10,530
 • Density 444.5/sq mi (171.6/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 44839
Area code(s) 419
FIPS code 39-37030[2]
GNIS feature ID 1086064[1]

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 system in the upper Mid-West, bordering the Dominion of Canada and its Province of Ontario across the Lake. The 2000 census recorded 10,530 people in the township, 2,572 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.[3]

Geography

Located in the northern part of the county along Lake Erie, it borders the following townships and city:

The city of Huron occupies the center half of surrounding Huron Township's south shoreline along Lake Erie.

Name and history

The Township of Huron was established by 1809; it has kept this name since that time. It was also briefly combined with (now) Milan Township for judicial districting purposes. It also was combined with the former "Avery Township" around 1821.

Huron Village, at the mouth of the Huron River, was established about 1824, when the harbor was created, and the village quickly sprang up around it.[4]

The Township was the former location of several French-Canadian fur-traders migrating south from New France and French Louisiana during the years of the French and Indian War, (1755-1763), [part of the larger multi-continental "Seven Years' War" in Europe, (1756-1763) when the Kingdom of France ceded its North American possessions in Canada to the British, and Louisiana to the Kingdom of Spain in 1763. Many Native American tribes frequented this area, and hunted and fished along with the French. Gabriel Hunot traded here in the 1780s, and fur trader John B. Flammond ("Flemming") came here to trade about 1805 and remained as a permanent settler. "Flemmings Cove" was named for him.

It is the only Huron Township statewide.[5]

Government

The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer,[6] who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

References

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  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Erie County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.
  4. ↑ Fire Lands Pioneer series; 1858-1913, FIrelands Historical Society
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.

External links

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