Clay Township is one of the twenty-two
townships
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
of
Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County ( ) is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,263. Its county seat is New Philadelphia. Its name is a Delaware Indian word variously translated as "ol ...
,
Ohio
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, United States. The
2000 census found 1,981 people in the township, 721 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
Geography
Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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York Township - north
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Warwick Township - northeast
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Rush Township - east
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Perry Township - southeast corner
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Washington Township - south
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Salem Township - southwest
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Jefferson Township - northwest
Part of the village of
Gnadenhutten is located in eastern Clay Township.
Clay Township contains the unincorporated locale of Lock Seventeen., named for its location at the seventeenth lock of the
Ohio Canal
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.
Name and history
It is one of nine
Clay 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 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. The current trustees are Ruby Kinsey, Harvey Morrison, and Tom Morrison, and the fiscal officer is Sharon Miller.
Tuscarawas County, Ohio — Engineer: Joseph S. Bachman
. Tuscarawas County. Accessed 2007-06-01.
References
External links
County website
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Townships in Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio