Perkins Township, Erie County, Ohio

Perkins Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan statistical area. The 2000 census found 12,578 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships and city:

Sandusky - north
Huron Township - east
Milan Township - southeast corner
Oxford Township - south
Groton Township - southwest corner
Margaretta Township - west

No municipalities are located in Perkins Township, although the census-designated places of Fairview Lanes and Sandusky South lie in the township's north along the border with the city of Sandusky, and the unincorporated community of Bogart lies in the township's east.
Name and history
Perkins Township was named for Elias Perkins, a native of Connecticut, who was one of its first landowners.
It is the only Perkins...