Forward Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

[1] The township is named after Walter Forward, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843.

The township includes the small Monongahela River community of Gallatin, the hometown of baseball record holder Ron Necciai.

Forward Township is the southernmost municipality in Allegheny County.

At the 2000 census, there were 3,771 people, 1,485 households, and 1,091 families living in the township.

There were 1,616 housing units at an average density of 85.4 per square mile (33.0/km2).