Chester Township is one of the sixteen
townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
of
Geauga County
Geauga County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 95,397. The county seat is Chardon. The county is named for an Onondaga or Seneca language word meaning 'raccoon', originally the name of the ...
,
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, United States. As of the
2010 census the population was 10,256.
Geography
Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships and municipalities:
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Kirtland - north
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Chardon Township - northeast corner
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Munson Township - east
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Newbury Township - southeast corner
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Russell Township - south
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Hunting Valley
Hunting Valley is a village in Cuyahoga and Geauga counties in the U.S. state of Ohio, and an eastern suburb of the Greater Cleveland area. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 707. At the 2000 census, it was ranked the 6th highest- ...
- southwest corner
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Gates Mills - west
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Willoughby Hills - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Chester Township, although the
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...
of
Chesterland is located in the township's center.
Name and history
Chester Township was established in 1816.
It is one of five
Chester Townships statewide. In the nineteenth century, it was home to the
Geauga Seminary
The Geauga Seminary (also known as Western Reserve Labor Seminary) was a Free Will Baptist school in Chester Township, Geauga County, Ohio. President James Garfield attended the Seminary.
History
The school was founded in 1842 by the Western Res ...
, a Free Will Baptist school, which
President Garfield
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until his death six months latertwo months after he was shot by an assassin. A lawyer and Civil War gene ...
attended.
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, 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.
Notable people
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Fordyce R. Melvin, Wisconsin State Assemblyman, farmer, and businessman, was born in the township.
['Wisconsin Blue Book 1979,' Biographical Sketch of Fordyce R. Melvin, pg. 493]
References
External links
Township websiteCounty website
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Townships in Geauga County, Ohio
Populated places established in 1816
1816 establishments in Ohio
Townships in Ohio