Massie Township, one of the eleven
townships of
Warren County,
Ohio
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,
United States
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, is located in the northeast part of the county and is the least populous of Warren County's townships. The population was 1,195 as of the
2020 census. It is the home of the
Ohio Renaissance Festival and
Caesar Creek State Park
Caesar Creek State Park is a public recreation area located in southwestern Ohio, five miles (8 km) east of Waynesville, in Warren, Clinton, and Greene counties. The park is leased by the State from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, w ...
.
Geography
Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Chester Township, Clinton County - northeast
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Washington Township - south
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Adams Township, Clinton County - southeast
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Wayne Township - northwest
The village of
Harveysburg is the only municipality within the township.
History
Massie Township was organized in 1850, and named for General
Nathaniel Massie.
A large part of the township was submerged in the 1960s and 1970s with the damming of
Caesars Creek by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wor ...
.
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.
Public services
The township is mostly in the Clinton-Massie Local School District but a part is in the Wayne Local School District.
Massie Township is in the
Waynesville and
Clarksville telephone exchanges.
Massie Township Fire Department, a
volunteer fire department
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respo ...
, serves Massie Township. It is composed of sixteen firefighters based at a single station.
Massie Township Fire Department - Harveysburg, Ohio
, firedepartments.net. Accessed September 11, 2007.
References
External links
County website
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Townships in Warren County, Ohio
1850 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1850
Townships in Ohio