Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana


Tobin Township is one of seven townships in Perry County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 690 and it contained 383 housing units.

History

Several members of the Tobin family were among the pioneer settlers who arrived to Tobin Township in the 1810s.
The crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710, which killed 63 people on March 17, 1960, occurred in Tobin Township.
The Old Perry County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water.

Unincorporated towns

The township contains these twenty cemeteries: Brashear, Bryant, Carr, Cockrell-Tate, Conner, Connor, Cooks, David Tate, George Tate, German Ridge, Gilliand, Groves, Harding, Hiley, Lamb, Lamb, Lower Cummings, Maier, Miller, Robinson, Saint Johns, Saint Peters, Sampley, Schraner, Seibert, Shoemaker, Simons, Smith, Tate, Upper Cummings and Wegenast.

School districts