Licking Township

Licking Township

Licking Township is the southwest township in Blackford County, Indiana. (Range: 10 East; Townships: 22 North, 23 North) The township was named after Lick Creek with a salt lick in the area. The first settlers in what became Blackford County arrived in the Lick Creek area in 1831.

Benjamin Reasoner, Sr., made the first entry of lands in the county, July 9, 1831, the tracts entered being in section 6 in the southwest corner of Licking township. At that time he and his family, ... resided in Muskingum county, Ohio. ... They stopped a few weeks with the family of John Grimes, just across the line in Grant county, until a cabin was built in their land, into which they moved the following month. Soon afterward a hewed-log house was erected as a place of residence for the old gentleman and lady. ... Benjamin died in 1841, or 1842, and his wife died some ten years later. -- Benjamin G. Shinn. "The Early Settler," Biographical Memiors of Blackford County, Ind. Chicago: The Bowen Publishing Company, 1900. p. 235.

Cities, Towns & Unincorporated Towns

Licking Township contains two cities/towns and an unincorporated town.

  • Hartford City

  • Shamrock Lakes

  • Renner

Cemeteries

The township contains at least seven cemeteries:

  • Cunningham

  • Greenlawn

  • Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Hartford City)

  • Lion

  • Sprague

  • Stewart

  • Willman (a.k.a. Hartford City Cemetery)