LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, HANCOCK COUNTY, OHIO

'Liberty Township' is one of the seventeen townships of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 6,469 people in the township.^[1]

Contents

Geography

Name and history

Government

References

External links

Geography

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

★ Portage Township - north

★ Allen Township - northeast

★ Marion Township - east

★ Jackson Township - southeast corner

★ Eagle Township - south

★ Union Township - southwest corner

★ Blanchard Township - west

★ Pleasant Township - northwest corner
The city of Findlay, the county seat of Hancock County, occupies much of eastern Liberty Township.

Name and history

It is one of twenty-five Liberty 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. Hancock County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.

External links

★ County website