Letart Township is one of the twelve

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of Meigs County,

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, USA. The 2000 census found 641 people in the township.

Geography

Located in the southeastern part of the county along the

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, it borders the following townships: * Sutton Township - northwest * Lebanon Township - northeast Letart Township is composed of a

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jutting southward into the Ohio River.

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lies across the river: Jackson County to the east, and Mason County to the west. It is located in the middle of Meigs County's Ohio River townships. No municipalities are located in Letart Township.

Name and history

The township name comes from Letart Falls on the

, named for a Frenchman

James Le Tort James Le Tort (often spelled James Letort, c. 1675 – c. 1742) was a Pennsylvania fur trader and a ''coureur des bois A coureur des bois (; ) or coureur de bois (; plural: coureurs de(s) bois) was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canad ...

who reportedly drowned in the falls.Larry L. Miller: ''Ohio Place Names'', Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind., 1996, p. 131. It is the only Letart Township statewide. David Sayre (1736-1826) and his family were said to have been the first settlers in what is now Letart Township, arriving in 1803 from New Jersey by way of western Virginia.

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,§503.24§505.01
an
§507.01
of the

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. Accessed 4/30/2009. 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

External links

County website
{{authority control Townships in Meigs County, Ohio Townships in Ohio