Bokescreek Township or Bokes Creek Township is one of the seventeen
townships
A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
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 ...
,
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 1,374.
Geography
Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Hale Township, Hardin County - north
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Washington Township, Union County - northeast
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York Township, Union County - southeast
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Perry Township - south
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Rushcreek Township - west
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Taylor Creek Township, Hardin County - northwest
Parts of the villages of
West Mansfield and
Ridgeway are located in southeastern and northern Bokescreek Township respectively.
Name and history
Bokescreek Township was formed in 1837 from
Perry Township, and named after
Bokes Creek.
It is the only Bokescreek 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, 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
State Routes
47 and
292
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Year 292 (Roman numerals, CCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hannibalianus and Asclepiodotus (or, less frequently, year 1045 ''Ab urbe condita'' ...
pass through Bokescreek Township.
References
External links
Bokescreek Fire DepartmentCounty websiteCounty and township map of Ohio
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Townships in Logan County, Ohio
Populated places established in 1838
1838 establishments in Ohio
Townships in Ohio