Waterloo Township is one of the fourteen
townships of
Athens County
Athens County is a County (United States), county in southeastern Ohio. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 62,431. Its county seat is Athens, Ohio, Athens. The county was formed in 1805 from Washington County, ...
,
Ohio, United States. The
2020 census found 2,352 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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York Township - north
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Dover Township - northeast corner
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Athens Township - east
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Alexander Township - southeast corner
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Lee Township - south
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Knox Township, Vinton County - southwest corner
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Brown Township, Vinton County - west
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Starr Township, Hocking County - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Waterloo Township, although three
unincorporated communities lie in the township:
New Marshfield in the center,
Carbondale in the township's northwest, and
Mineral in the west-center of the township.
Name and history
Waterloo Township was organized in 1826. Its name commemorates the
Battle of Waterloo.
It is the only Waterloo Township 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,
§503.24§505.01
an
§507.01
of the Ohio Revised Code. 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.
Public lands
Waterloo Township includes the entirety of the Waterloo Wildlife Research Station
The Waterloo Wildlife Research Station is a Ohio state wildlife area located in western Waterloo Township, Athens County, Ohio. Purchase for the area was begun in 1944. The area was greatly expanded in 2005 when 945 acres were added. It was ori ...
, the Waterloo State Forest
Waterloo most commonly refers to:
* Battle of Waterloo, a battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat
* Waterloo, Belgium, where the battle took place.
Waterloo may also refer to:
Other places
Antarctica
*King George Island (S ...
, and a significant portion of the Zaleski State Forest. The Moonville Rail-Trail King Switch Tunnel
The Moonville Rail-Trail is a sixteen-mile (25 kilometer) rail-trail in southeast Ohio, located in Vinton and Athens Counties. It is largely embedded in the Zaleski State Forest and passes close to Lake Hope State Park. The tra ...
originates in Mineral within the township. Points of interest in the township include "Devils Tea-Table", a geological pillar formation on private land; the King Switch Tunnel, a timber tunnel on the Moonville Rail-Trail; a small natural bridge on Biddyville Road; and the county's largest beaver
Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...
pond, also on Biddyville Road.
References
External links
County website
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Townships in Athens County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio
1826 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1826