High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shawnee Township is one of the twelve townships of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 12,220 people in the township (exclusive of Lima), 8,365 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. It is the only Shawnee Township statewide. 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.