Huron Township, Ohio
| Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio | |
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| Township | |
 Location of Huron Township (red) in Erie County, adjacent to the city of Huron (yellow) |
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| Coordinates: 41°23′52″N 82°34′49″W / 41.39778°N 82.58028°WCoordinates: 41°23′52″N 82°34′49″W / 41.39778°N 82.58028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| County | Erie |
| Area | |
| • Total | 27.8 sq mi (72.0 km2) |
| • Land | 23.1 sq mi (59.9 km2) |
| • Water | 4.7 sq mi (12.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 594 ft (181 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 10,697 |
| • Density | 463/sq mi (178.7/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 44839 |
| Area code(s) | 419 |
| FIPS code | 39-37030 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1086064 |
| Website | hurontwp |
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 2010 census the population was 10,697, 3,548 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
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.
The Township of Huron was established by 1809; it has kept this name since that time. It was briefly combined with (now) Milan Township (originally named "Avery Township") for judicial districting purposes.
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.
The township was the former location of several French-Canadian fur traders migrating south from New France and north from French Louisiana during the years of the French and Indian War (1755-1763), 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 Jean B. Flammand (aka "John B. Flemming") came here to trade about 1805 and remained as a permanent settler. "Flemmings Cove" was named for him.
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