Massie Township, one of the eleven

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, United States, is located in the northeast part of the county and the least populous of Warren County's townships. In

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, the population was 1,061 up from 885 in

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; of this total, 498 lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. The third smallest township in the county with 13,622 acres (55 km); it is the only Massie Township statewide. It is the home of the Ohio Renaissance Festival and

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Geography

Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Chester Township, Clinton County - northeast * Washington Township - south * Adams Township, Clinton County - southeast * Wayne Township - northwest The village of Harveysburg is the only municipality within the township.

History

Massie Township was organized in 1850, and named for General

Nathaniel Massie Nathaniel Massie (December 28, 1763 – November 13, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country (including the Virginia Military District) who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded fourteen early towns in ...

. A large part of the township was submerged in the 1960s and 1970s with the damming of Caesars Creek by the

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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.

Public services

The township is mostly in the Clinton-Massie Local School District but a part is in the Wayne Local School District. Massie Township is in the Waynesville and Clarksville telephone exchanges. Massie Township Fire Department, a

volunteer fire department A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond t ...

, serves Massie Township. It is composed of sixteen firefighters based at a single station.Massie Township Fire Department - Harveysburg, Ohio
, firedepartments.net. Accessed September 11, 2007.

References

External links

County website
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