Flushing Township is one of the sixteen
townships of
Belmont County
Belmont County is a county located in the eastern end of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 66,497. Its county seat is St. Clairsville, while its largest city is Martins Ferry. The county was crea ...
,
Ohio
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, United States. The
2020 census found 1,936 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Moorefield Township, Harrison County - north
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Athens Township, Harrison County - northeast
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Wheeling Township - east
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Union Township - southeast
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Kirkwood Township - south
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Londonderry Township, Guernsey County - west
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Freeport Township, Harrison County - northwest
Two villages are located in Flushing Township:
Flushing in the east, and
Holloway in the north.
Name and history
It is the only Flushing Township statewide.
Flushing Township was organized in 1817. Flushing Township was originally settled chiefly by
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally ...
.
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 4/30/2009. 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
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Townships in Belmont County, Ohio
1817 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1817
Townships in Ohio