Butler Township is one of the nine
townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
of
Montgomery County,
Ohio
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, United States. As of the
2020 census, the population was 8,269.
Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships and cities:
*
Monroe Township, Miami County - north
*
Vandalia - east
*
Dayton
Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metro ...
- southeast
*
Harrison Township - south
*
Clayton - southwest
*
Englewood - west
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Union Township, Miami County - northwest
Three cities are located in what was originally parts of Butler Township:
*Part of Dayton, the
county seat
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of Montgomery County, in the northeast and a smaller portion in the southeast
*Part of
Union, in the northwest
*Vandalia, in the east
Name and history
It is one of six
Butler Townships statewide.
Butler Township was described in 1833 as having five
gristmill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...
s, four saw mills, one
fulling
Fulling, also known as tucking or walking ( Scots: ''waukin'', hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate ( lanolin) oils, ...
mill, two tanneries, five distilleries, and one woolen factory.
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.
Trustees:
Missy Pruszynski (President)
Mike Thein
Bryson Jackson
Fiscal Officer: Gregory A. Brush
References
External links
Township websiteCounty website
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Townships in Montgomery County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio