Portage Township is a defunct township in Summit County, Ohio. It was annexed mostly by Akron and partly by Cuyahoga Falls. It lay between the original Copley, Northampton, Tallmadge, and Coventry townships and was numbered Town 2, Range XI.

The township derived its name from the Portage Path which extends from north to south through the middle of the township. (Grant, 1891)

The first white settler who "stuck" was Maj. Miner Spicer in 1810, who located near what is now the corner of Spicer and Carroll streets, in "Spicertown" (Grant, 1891)

The township was organized in 1838, at a meeting held in the house of Warren H. Clark. The following being its first officers: Trustees, Wm. B. Mitchell, Simon Perkins, Jr., George Babcock; Clerk, Horace K. Smith; Treasurer, Samuel A. Wheeler. (Grant, 1891)

References

Grant, C.R., Findley, A.I.; (1891). Illustrated Summit County, Ohio (1992 reprint). Hudson, Ohio: Hudson Genealogical Study Group.