Knox Township, Columbiana County, Ohio
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Knox Township is one of the eighteen
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 ...
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Columbiana County Columbiana County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 101,877. The county seat is Lisbon, Ohio, Lisbon and its largest city is Salem, Ohio, ...
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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. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 4,068.


Geography

Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships and city: * Smith Township, Mahoning County - north * Goshen Township, Mahoning County - northeast corner * Butler Township - east * Hanover Township - southeast corner * West Township - south * Paris Township, Stark County - southwest corner * Washington Township, Stark County - west *
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- northwest Two unincorporated communities are located in Knox Township: *The unincorporated community of Homeworth, in the southwest *The unincorporated community of North Georgetown, in the west


Name and history

It is one of five Knox Townships statewide. The township was organized in 1808.


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
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. Accessed April 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.


Township Trustees

*Matthew Johnson, Chairman *Gregory R. Carver, Vice Chairman *John Eddie Barnhart


Fiscal Officer

*Debra S. Hartzell


References


External links


Township websiteCounty website
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