Hanover Township is one of ten townships in Jefferson County, Indiana, United States.

As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,592 (up from 5,366 at 2010[1]) and it contained 2,030 housing units.

[2] Thomas A. Hendricks Library on the campus of Hanover College was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

[1] The streams of Chain Mill Creek and Happy Valley Creek run through this township.

The township contains four cemeteries: Carmel, Greenbriar, Hanover and Old Bethel.