Montville Township is one of the sixteen
townships of
Geauga County,
Ohio
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, United States. As of the
2020 census the population was 1,938.
Geography
Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Thompson Township - north
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Trumbull Township, Ashtabula County - northeast corner
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Hartsgrove Township, Ashtabula County - east
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Windsor Township, Ashtabula County - southeast corner
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Huntsburg Township - south
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Claridon Township - southwest corner
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Hambden Township - west
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LeRoy Township, Lake County - northwest corner.
No municipalities are located in Montville 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
Montville lies at the center of the township.
The
Cuyahoga River
The Cuyahoga River (see ) is a river located in Northeast Ohio that bisects the City of Cleveland and feeds into Lake Erie.
As Cleveland emerged as a major manufacturing center, the river became heavily affected by industrial pollution, so mu ...
begins in Montville Township.
Name and history
Statewide, the only other Montville Township is located in
Medina County.
The township includes a house that was once a stop on the
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery ...
. The house still stands on the southeast corner of the intersection of
U.S. Route 6 and
State Route 528.
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.
Education
Montville Township formerly fell under the Ledgemont School District but was absorbed by the Berkshire School District in Burton.
References
External links
Montville Township official websiteCounty website
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Townships in Geauga County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio