Union Township is one of the seventeen
townships
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of
Hancock County,
Ohio
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, United States. As of the
2020 census, the population was 1,881.
Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Blanchard Township - north
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Liberty Township - northeast corner
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Eagle Township - east
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Van Buren Township - southeast corner
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Orange Township - south
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Richland Township, Allen County - southwest
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Riley Township, Putnam County - west
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Blanchard Township, Putnam County - northwest corner
Two villages are located in Union Township:
Mount Cory in the south, and
Rawson Rawson may refer to:
Places
*Rawson, Chubut, the capital of Chubut Province, Argentina
*Rawson Department, Chubut, Argentina
*Rawson Department, San Juan, Argentina
**Villa Krause, also named Rawson, the capital city of the department
* Rawson, Vic ...
in the east.
Name and history
It is one of twenty-seven
Union Townships statewide.
Union Township was organized in 1832.
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
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Townships in Hancock County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio