Monroe Township is one of the twenty-five
townships of
Muskingum 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 521 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Linton Township, Coshocton County - north
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Knox Township, Guernsey County - east
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Adams Township, Guernsey County - southeast corner
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Highland Township - south
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Salem Township - southwest corner
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Adams Township - west
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Franklin Township, Coshocton County - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Monroe Township. The unincorporated community
Otsego is home to the township hall.
Name and history
Monroe Township was named for
James Monroe
James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American Founding Father of the United States, Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as presiden ...
, 5th President of the United States.
It is one of twenty-two
Monroe Townships statewide.
By the 1830s, Monroe Township contained three saw mills and three
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.
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 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 Muskingum County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio