PERRY TOWNSHIP, ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO

'Perry Township' is one of the fifteen townships of Ashland County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,927 people in the township.^[1]

Contents

Geography

Name and history

Government

References

External links

Geography

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

★ Jackson Township - north

★ Congress Township, Wayne County - northeast corner

★ Chester Township, Wayne County - east

★ Plain Township, Wayne County - southeast corner

★ Mohican Township - south

★ Vermillion Township - southwest corner

★ Montgomery Township - west
No municipalities are located in Perry Township.

Name and history

It is one of twenty-six Perry 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