Meigs Township is one of the twenty-five
townships of
Muskingum County,
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
, United States. The
2020 census found 228 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Rich Hill Township - north
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Spencer Township, Guernsey County - northeast corner
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Brookfield Township, Noble County - east
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Bristol Township, Morgan County - south
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Bloom Township, Morgan County - southwest corner
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Blue Rock Township - west
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Salt Creek Township - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Meigs Township.
Name and history
Meigs Township was named after
Meigs Creek. Statewide, the only other Meigs Township is located in
Adams County.
By the 1830s, Meigs Township had three
gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...
s and four saw mills.
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.
Demographics
References
External links
County website
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Townships in Muskingum County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio