| Official Name: | Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio |
| Settlement Type: | Township |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ohio |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Meigs |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Km2: | 45.2 |
| Area Land Km2: | 43.0 |
| Area Water Km2: | 2.2 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 17.5 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 16.6 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.9 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 733 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Elevation M: | 245 |
| Elevation Ft: | 804 |
| Coordinates: | 38.9131°N -81.8736°W |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 39-42868[3] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 1086612 |
Letart Township is one of the twelve townships of Meigs County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 733 people in the township.
Located in the southeastern part of the county along the Ohio River, it borders the following townships:
Letart Township is composed of a peninsula jutting southward into the Ohio River. West Virginia lies across the river: Jackson County to the east, and Mason County to the west.
It is located in the middle of Meigs County's Ohio River townships.
No municipalities are located in Letart Township.
The township name comes from Letart Falls on the Ohio River, named for a Frenchman James Le Tort who reportedly drowned in the falls.[4] It is the only Letart Township statewide.[5] David Sayre (1736-1826) and his family were said to have been the first settlers in what is now Letart Township,[6] arriving in 1803 from New Jersey by way of western Virginia.
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,[7] 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.