Champion Township is one of the twenty-four
townships
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of
Trumbull County,
Ohio
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, United States. The
2020 census found 9,381 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Bristol Township - north
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Mecca Township - northeast corner
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Bazetta Township - east
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Howland Township - southeast corner
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Warren Township - south
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Braceville Township - southwest corner
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Southington Township - west
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Farmington Township - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Champion Township, although the
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
of
Champion Heights is located in the township's south.
History
The land that became Champion Township was originally part of the
Connecticut Western Reserve
The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. Warren, Ohio was the Historic Capital in Trumbull County. T ...
, then was purchased by the
Connecticut Land Company
The Connecticut Company or Connecticut Land Company (est. 1795) was a post-colonial land speculation company formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the eastern parts of the newly chartered Connecticut Western ...
. The land that became the township was divided among nine or ten shareholders, one of whom,
General Henry Champion, originally owned much of the property and had acquired all of the township land by December 1798. Trumbull County was established in 1800 and the township was named "Champion Township" for the man who owned it.
Henry Champion sold few of the parcels of the land that he owned, hoping to wait for the price to rise from $2.50 an acre to $10.00 an acre. The first permanent settler was William Rutan, who arrived from Pennsylvania in 1806. Over the next two decades, only six more families moved to the township. Henry Champion died in 1825, with the western half of the township going to his son, Aristarchus Champion and the eastern half to his son-in-law, Henry C. Trumbull. In 1826, both hired a surveyor to sell the land at market price. Champion Township was organized in December 1831.
It is the only Champion 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 fiscal officer,
§503.24§505.01
an
§507.01
of the Ohio Revised Code
The ''Ohio Revised Code'' (ORC) contains all current statutes of the Ohio General Assembly of a permanent and general nature, consolidated into provisions, titles, chapters and sections. However, the only official publication of the enactments o ...
. Accessed April 30, 2009. 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 fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.
References
External links
County website
*ChampionTownship.org
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Townships in Trumbull County, Ohio
1831 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1831
Townships in Ohio