McDonald Township is one of the fifteen townships

Civil township

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 of Hardin County

Hardin County, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 914 people in the township.

Geography

Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:

• Cessna Township
  Cessna Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Cessna Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 519 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the western center of the county, it borders the following townships:*Washington Township - north...
  
   - north
• Lynn Township
  Lynn Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Lynn Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 629 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southern center of the county, it borders the following townships:*Cessna Township - north...
  
   - northeast
• Taylor Creek Township
  Taylor Creek Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Taylor Creek Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 517 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southeast
• Richland Township, Logan County
  Richland Township, Logan County, Ohio
  Richland Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,455 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - south
• Roundhead Township
  Roundhead Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Roundhead Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 752 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - west
• Marion Township
  Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Marion Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,449 people in the township, 1,039 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northwest

No municipalities are located in McDonald Township.

Name and history

It is the only McDonald Township statewide.

McDonald Township is the location of the Zimmerman Kame

Zimmerman Kame

The Zimmerman Kame is a glacial kame and archaeological site in McDonald Township, Hardin County, Ohio, United States, near the community of Roundhead...

, a burial site used by the ancient Glacial Kame Culture

Glacial Kame Culture

The Glacial Kame Culture was a culture of Archaic people that occupied southern Ontario, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana from around 8000 BC to 1000 BC. The name of this culture derives from its members' practice of burying their dead atop glacier-deposited gravel hills...

of Native Americans.

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, 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.