The Township

Cedar Creek Township

Cedar Creek Township is one of twenty townships in Allen County. It is bordered on the north by DeKalb County (at North County Line Road), on the east by Springfield Township (at Roth / Bishop Road), on the south by Milan and St. Joseph Townships (at Notestine Road), and on the west by Perry Township (at Tonkel Road). It includes the Town of Leo-Cedarville and the Town of Grabill.

The township’s population was 13,684 at the 2020 Census. As of May 2024, the Allen County Election Board counted 9,410 active registered voters (10,458 total) across the township’s nine precincts (Leo-Cedarville A and B; Grabill; and Cedar Creek A, B, C, D, E, and F).

Map of Allen County, Indiana, divided into its twenty townships, with Cedar Creek Township in the top row — Allen County’s twenty townships — Allen County iMap, April 2026Download High-Resolution PDF

Map of Cedar Creek Township showing Leo-Cedarville, Grabill, and the township boundary — Cedar Creek Township — Allen County iMap, April 2026Download High-Resolution PDF

What townships do. Townships are the smallest unit of local government in Indiana. Historically a township’s work was tax assessment (with an elected Township Assessor), fire protection, and township assistance. Today the tax assessment function for Cedar Creek Township is handled by the Allen County Assessor, and fire protection by the Northeast Allen County Fire Protection District—and, beginning January 1, 2027, the county-wide Allen County Fire & EMS District. The township’s key functions center on township assistance for residents in need, the care of cemeteries that have no one else to maintain them, and the township’s own property and finances.

How the township is governed. Cedar Creek Township has an elected executive (the Township Trustee) and an elected legislative body, the three-member Township Board. The Trustee is responsible for the township’s day-to-day operations and is accountable to the Board. The Board adopts the annual budget and tax levy. No township money may be spent except as duly appropriated by the Board. The Board examines the Trustee’s sworn report of receipts and expenditures, with the power to call witnesses, demand records, and disallow any part of it.

The 2026 township merger law. In March 2026 the General Assembly enacted Senate Enrolled Act 270, which puts every township outside Marion County on a scoring system. The Department of Local Government Finance will score each township on ten criteria — among them whether it provided township assistance, whether it actively manages fire protection, whether it filed its required financial reports, and the size of its budget — and publish the results by December 31, 2026. A township with four or more points must merge with another township by January 1, 2029. Cedar Creek Township’s score has not been published. Whatever it turns out to be, the board elected this November will serve through the period in which the law is applied.

Elections. The Trustee and all three Board members are elected township-wide to four-year terms, in the same general election. They were last elected in November 2022; the next election is November 3, 2026, for terms commencing January 1, 2027.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census. Registered voters: Allen County Election Board, 2024 Primary Registered Voters by Precinct. Maps: Allen County iMap. Township law: Indiana Code Title 36, Article 6; Senate Enrolled Act 270 (P.L. 134-2026). Fire district: Allen County Fire Districts.