Monroe Township is one of the seventeen
townships
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of
Logan County Logan County is the name of ten current counties and one former county in the United States:
* Logan County, Arkansas
* Logan County, Colorado
* Logan County, Idaho (1889–1895)
* Logan County, Illinois
* Logan County, Kansas
* Logan County, ...
,
Ohio
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, United States. As of the
2010 census, the population was 1,739,
up from 1,503 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Located in the south-eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Jefferson Township – north
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Perry Township – northeast corner
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Zane Township – east
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Wayne Township, Champaign County – southeast
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Salem Township, Champaign County – south
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Liberty Township – west
Parts of the villages of
West Liberty and
Valley Hi are located in southwestern and northern Monroe Township respectively, and the
unincorporated community
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of
Pickrelltown lies in the township's north.
Name and history
Monroe Township was organized in 1822. It is one of twenty-two
Monroe Townships statewide.
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.
In the
elections of November 2007, Dale Barns and Linda Stuart
[Examiner Staff, The. "Township Trustees: Township fiscal officer", ''Bellefontaine Examiner'', 2007-11-07, p. 2.] were elected without opposition to the positions of township trustee and township fiscal officer respectively.
Transportation
Important highways in Monroe Township include State Routes
245 and
287
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.
References
External links
County websiteCounty and township map of Ohio
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Townships in Logan County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio
1822 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1822