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'Danbury Township' is one of the twelve townships of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,631 people in the township, 3,869 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.^[1]

Contents

Geography

Name and history

Government

Notable residents

References

External links

Geography

Located at the eastern point of the county at the end of the Marblehead Peninsula, it borders the following townships:

★ Kelleys Island - northeast, across Lake Erie

★ Sandusky - southeast, across Sandusky Bay

★ Margaretta Township, Erie County - south, across Sandusky Bay

★ Portage Township - west

★ Catawba Island Township - northwest
The village of Marblehead lies at the eastern point of the township, and the unincorporated community of Lakeside lies on its northern shore.

Name and history

It is the only Danbury Township statewide.
This township is included in the region known as the Firelands and was originally a part of Huron County.^[2] It was named for Danbury, Connecticut.
Huron County was established by the Ohio General Assembly on February 7, 1809 and, at the time, comprised present-day Erie County; Huron County, Ruggles Township in Ashland County, and Danbury Township.^[3]
Johnson's Island, the location of a significant Prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War, is located in Sandusky Bay just south of the Marblehead Peninsula. It is part of Danbury 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 clerk, 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 clerkship or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

Notable residents

★ Louis C. Shepard, Medal of Honor winner during the Civil War.

References

1. Ottawa County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.
2. ''Milan and the Milan Canal'', by Charles E. Frohman, c.1976, pp. 26-28.
3. ''Ohio Lands, A Short History'', a publication of the Ohio Auditor of State, c. 1994, p. 10.

External links

★ County website