As of the 2020 census, its population was 357 and it contained 136 housing units.

[1] West Point Township was organized in 1845, and was named for a large tract of forest in the western part.

[4] The township contains West Point Cemetery.

Near the back of this cemetery is a marker for Alexander Lawrie, a northern captain in the Civil War and an artist of the Hudson River School.

The market claims that Lawrie made a gift to the Indiana Museum of a set of 100 paintings of Civil War generals.