Amherst Township is one of the eighteen
townships
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
of
Lorain County
Lorain County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 312,964. Its county seat is Elyria, Ohio, Elyria. The county was physicall ...
,
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, United States. As of the
2010 census, the population was 6,844,
down from 7,598 people at the 2000 census. In 2010, 5,728 of the population lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
Geography
Located in northern Lorain County, it borders the following townships and cities:
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Amherst - northwest
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Lorain - northeast
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Elyria Township - east
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Elyria Elyria may refer to:
*Elyria, Ohio
Elyria ( ) is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River (Ohio), Black ...
- southeast
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Carlisle Township - southeast corner
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New Russia Township - south
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Henrietta Township - southwest corner
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Brownhelm Township - west
The city of
Amherst occupies what was northwestern Amherst Township, and part of the village of
South Amherst lies in the southwestern part of the township.
Name and history
* It is the only township named "Amherst" statewide.
* Amherst Township was established as a judicially-independent township in 1830, and named after
Amherst, New Hampshire
Amherst is a town in Hillsborough County in the state of New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,753 at the 2020 census. Amherst is home to Ponemah Bog Wildlife Sanctuary, Hodgman State Forest, the Joe English Reservation and Baboos ...
. It had been originally created as "Town(ship) number 6 in the 18th Range" (of the Connecticut Western Reserve); but prior to 1830, it was judicially attached to "Black River township" and originally in Huron County, Ohio, before Lorain County was created in 1822 and organized in 1824. Its first pioneer-settlement began in 1811, when Jacob and Catherine Shupe settled in the northern section, soon constructing the first sawmill, frame house, and gristmill in the area. Shupe's pioneering efforts aided greatly in spurring future local development. Although many additional pioneers settled throughout the other portions of the township in the 1810s and 1820s, the actual downtown portion of the village of
Amherst was not officially established/recorded until 1836. By the mid-20th-century, that village eventually encompassed most of the northern half of the original township.
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, 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. The current trustees are Dennis Abraham, Neil Lynch, and David Urig.
Amherst Township
Accessed 2007-05-14.
References
External links
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County website
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Townships in Lorain County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio