Brown Township is one of the twenty
townships
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of
Darke County,
Ohio
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, United States. The
2020 census found 2,056 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Allen Township - north
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York Township - northeast
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Richland Township - southeast
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Greenville Township - south
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Washington Township - southwest corner
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Jackson Township - west
The village of
Ansonia is located in eastern Brown Township.
Name and history
It is one of eight
Brown Townships statewide.
One of the flattest townships in Darke County, it was very
swamp
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y; the land was only drained in the 1870s, well after the completion of a similar process in the county's other townships.
> Despite the wetness of the terrain, the first settler in the township, John Woodington, arrived prior to 1817, and the township's first church (a
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) and school were established in 1827.
The township was founded in December 1833; up to this point, it had been a part of
Washington Township.
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
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. 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
County website
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Townships in Darke County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio