Berlin Township is one of the fourteen
townships of
Mahoning County,
Ohio
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, United States. The
2020 census found 1,973 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Milton Township - north
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Jackson Township - northeast corner
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Ellsworth Township - east
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Goshen Township - southeast
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Smith Township - southwest
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Deerfield Township, Portage County - west
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Palmyra Township, Portage County - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Berlin Township.
Name and history
Berlin Township was organized in 1828. The township was named after Berlin, Germany, the ancestral home of a share of the first settlers.
Statewide, other Berlin Townships are located in
Delaware
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,
Erie,
Holmes
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, and
Knox counties.
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'' (ORC) 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 o ...
. 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.
Current trustees (December 2017):
*Denny Furman
*Jodi Kale
*Jason Young
Transportation
The intersection of U.S. Route 224
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and State Route 534, which lies about twenty miles southwest of Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Ohio, 11th-most populous city in Ohio with a population of 60,068 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Mahoning ...
, is located in central Berlin Township.
References
External links
County website
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Townships in Mahoning County, Ohio
1828 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1828
Townships in Ohio