Amanda Township is one of the seventeen townships of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 1,036.
Geography Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships: Biglick Township – north Ridge Township, Wyandot County – east Richland Township, Wyandot County – southeast Delaware Township – southwest Jackson Township – west Marion Township – northwest
The village of Vanlue is located in northeastern Amanda Township.
Name and history Statewide, other Amanda Townships are located in Allen and Fairfield counties.
Amanda Township was first settled on February 25, 1822, by Thomas Thompson.History of Hancock County, Ohio, Chicago: Warner, Beers, 1886, p. 357History of Hancock County, Ohio: Geographical and Statistical. 1903, p. 194 Thompson built a cabin in 1823 and planted the township's first crop that year. He brought his family to the township from Pickaway County in 1824. In 1829, Thompson became Hancock County's first Justice of the Peace.Beardsley, D. B. History of Hancock County: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Springfield: Republic, 1881, p. 67 Thompson lived in Amanda Township until his death in Vanlue on October 26, 1873.
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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