Pleasant Township, Logan County, Ohio
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Pleasant Township is one of the seventeen townships 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 ...
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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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,144.


Geography

Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Bloomfield Township - north * Washington Township - northeast * Harrison Township - east * Union Township - southeast * Miami Township - south * Salem Township, Shelby County - west Part of the village of DeGraff is located in southern Pleasant Township, and the
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
of Logansville is located in the township's center.


Name and history

Pleasant Township was organized in 1841. It is one of fifteen Pleasant 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.


Transportation

Important highways in Pleasant Township are State Routes 47 and 235.


References


External links


County websiteCounty and township map of Ohio
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