GREEN TOWNSHIP, ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO

'Green Township' is one of the fifteen townships of Ashland County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,887 people in the township, 1,662 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.^[1]

Contents

Geography

Name and history

Government

References

External links

Geography

Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships:

★ Vermillion Township - north

★ Mohican Township - northeast corner

★ Lake Township - east

★ Washington Township, Holmes County - southeast

★ Hanover Township - south

★ Worthington Township, Richland County - southwest corner

★ Monroe Township, Richland County - west

★ Mifflin Township - northwest corner
Two villages are located in Green Township: part of Loudonville in the southeast, and Perrysville in the southwest.

Name and history

It is one of sixteen Green Townships statewide.

Government

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. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township clerk, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the clerkship or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

References

1. Ashland County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.

External links

★ County website