KINGSTON TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE COUNTY, OHIO

'Kingston Township' is one of the eighteen townships of Delaware County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,603 people in the township.^[1]

Contents

Geography

Name and history

Government

References

External links

Geography

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

★ Peru Township, Morrow County - north

★ Bennington Township, Morrow County - northeast corner

★ Porter Township - east

★ Trenton Township - southeast corner

★ Berkshire Township - south

★ Berlin Township - southwest corner

★ Brown Township - west

★ Oxford Township - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Kingston Township

Name and history

It is the only Kingston Township 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. Delaware County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.

External links

★ County website