Monroe Township, Knox County, Ohio
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Monroe 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 Knox County,
Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, United States. The 2010 census found 2,165 people in the township.


Geography

Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships: * Pike Township - north * Brown Township - northeast corner * Howard Township - east * Harrison Township - southeast corner, east of College Township *
College Township The "College Township" was the full survey township located in the northwest corner of Butler County, Ohio, now corresponding to the civil township of Oxford, designated by the Ohio General Assembly to be the site of the state university now calle ...
- southeast, west of Harrison Township * Pleasant Township - southwest, east of Clinton Township * Clinton Township - southwest, west of Pleasant Township * Morris Township - west Part of the city of
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, the
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of Knox County, is located in southwestern Monroe Township.


Name and history

Monroe Township was established in 1825. It is named for
James Monroe James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was ...
, fifth President of the United States. It is one of twenty-two Monroe Townships statewide. By the 1830s, Monroe Township had a number of productive mills built along Schenck Creek.


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


External links


County website
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