Letart Township is one of the twelve townships of Meigs County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 733 people in the township.
Geography Located in the southeastern part of the county along the Ohio River, it borders the following townships: Sutton Township - northwest Lebanon Township - northeast
Letart Township is composed of a peninsula jutting southward into the Ohio River. West Virginia 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 Ohio River, named for a Frenchman James Le Tort 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,The Pioneer History of Meigs County (1908) by Stillman Carter Larkin, one vol., with illustrations; Columbus, Ohio: Berlin Printing Company; pg 172. 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, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. 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.
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External links County website