Jackson Township is one of the fourteen
townships of
Mahoning 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. The
2020 census found 2,124 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Lordstown - north
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Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County - northeast corner
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Austintown Township - east
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Canfield Township - southeast corner
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Ellsworth Township - south
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Berlin Township - southwest corner
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Milton Township - west
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Newton Township, Trumbull County - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Jackson Township, although the
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
of
North Jackson lies at the center of the township.
Name and history
At first, the area of Jackson Township was called West Austintown and was first organized in 1815.
It was later named Jackson Township after
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before Presidency of Andrew Jackson, his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses ...
. It is one of thirty-seven
Jackson Townships statewide.
After the
Treaty of Greenville in 1795, settlers began purchasing and settling the area. In 1795, the first settlers in
Mahoning County were John Young and Colonel James Hillman, who built a log cabin on the east bank of the
Mahoning River in
Youngstown. The first settlers of the area that would become known as Jackson Township included Samuel Calhoun, Andrew Gault, William Orr, James Starnford, Samuel Riddle, and Joseph McInrue.
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.
References
External links
Township websiteCounty website
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Townships in Mahoning County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio