PULTNEY TOWNSHIP, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

'Pultney Township' is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 9,700 people in the township, 4,751 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.^[1]

Contents

Geography

Name and history

Government

References

External links

Geography

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

★ Pease Township - north

★ Mead Township - south

★ Richland Township - west
West Virginia lies across the Ohio River to the east: Ohio County to the northeast, and Marshall County to the southeast.
Several populated places are located in Pultney Township:

★ The village of Bellaire in the east, along the Ohio River

★ Part of the village of Shadyside in the southeast, along the Ohio River

★ The census-designated place of Neffs in the northwest

★ The unincorporated community of Blaine in the north

★ The unincorporated community of Lansing in the north.

Name and history

It is the only Pultney 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. Belmont County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.

External links

★ County website