Malaga Township is one of the eighteen
townships
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of
Monroe County Monroe County may refer to seventeen counties in the United States, all named for James Monroe:
* Monroe County, Alabama
*Monroe County, Arkansas
* Monroe County, Florida
* Monroe County, Georgia
*Monroe County, Illinois
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,
Ohio
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, United States. As of the
2020 census, the population was 1,038.
Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Somerset Township, Belmont County - north
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Wayne Township, Belmont County - northeast
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Sunsbury Township - east
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Center Township - southeast
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Summit Township - southwest
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Seneca Township - west
Two villages are located in Malaga Township:
Miltonsburg in the center, and part of
Jerusalem
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in the northeast. As well, the
unincorporated community
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of
Malaga lies in the northern part of the township.
Name and history
It is the only Malaga Township statewide.
A key founder of Malaga Township was John Hendershot, who was born in 1764 in
. He had three sons between 1788 and 1797. John enlisted in the Pennsylvania Militia, Bedford County Rangers of Frontiers, under Captain William McCall. In 1782, after the Revolutionary War, he first moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania (now
Greene County) and then to Monroe County, Ohio. He built a cabin in Malaga Township before 1815, as well as mapped the town out. The first settlers of Magala Township were the families of John, Stillwell Truax, Mathew Rogers, Martin Fogle, Frederick Hayes, Peter Mann, David Mann, William Kennard, James Graham and David Lupton. This was before 1815. The first election in Magala Township was held at the home of Peter Mann in 1820.
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'' 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 of the G ...
. 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
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Townships in Monroe County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio