Amherst Township, Ohio

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Amherst Township, Ohio - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 41°22′52″N 82°12′48″W / 41.38111°N 82.21333°W

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Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio
Township
Houses and fields in western Amherst Township
Location in Lorain County, Ohio
Coordinates: 41°22′52″N 82°12′48″W / 41.38111°N 82.21333°W / 41.38111; -82.21333
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Lorain
Area ^[1]
• Total	15.5 sq mi (40.1 km²)
• Land	15.4 sq mi (39.9 km²)
• Water	0.08 sq mi (0.2 km²)
Elevation ^[2]	738 ft (225 m)
Population (2020)^[3]
• Total	6,492
• Density	420/sq mi (160/km²)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	44001
Area code	440
FIPS code	39-01812^[4]
GNIS feature ID	1086499^[2]
Website	amhersttownship.us

Amherst Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,492.

Geography

Located in northern Lorain County, it borders the following townships and cities:

Amherst - northwest
Lorain - northeast
Elyria Township - east
Elyria - southeast
Carlisle Township - southeast corner
New Russia Township - south
Henrietta Township - southwest corner
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

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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.^[5] 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". Its first pioneer-settlement began in 1812, when Jacob Shupe built a gristmill on his farm in its northern section. And although many additional pioneers settled throughout the other portions of the township in the 1810s and 1820s, but the actual village of Amherst was not officially established 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,^[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. The current trustees are Dennis Abraham, Neil Lynch, and David Urig.^[7]

References

^ "U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2019: County Subdivisions: Ohio". U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Amherst township, Lorain County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 3.
^ §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.
^ Amherst Township Accessed 2007-05-14.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Lorain County, Ohio, United States
County seat: Elyria
Cities	Amherst Avon Avon Lake Elyria Lorain North Ridgeville Oberlin Sheffield Lake Vermilion‡	Map of Ohio highlighting Lorain County
Villages	Grafton Kipton LaGrange Rochester Sheffield South Amherst Wellington
Townships	Amherst Brighton Brownhelm Camden Carlisle Columbia Eaton Elyria Grafton Henrietta Huntington LaGrange New Russia Penfield Pittsfield Rochester Sheffield Wellington
CDPs	Eaton Estates Pheasant Run
Unincorporated communities	Belden Brentwood Lake Brighton Columbia Hills Corners North Eaton Whiskyville
Ghost town	Murraysville
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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