Paint Township is one of the seventeen
townships of
Highland 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. As of the
2020 census the population was 4,850.
Geography
Located in the east part of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Madison Township - north
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Paint Township, Ross County - northeast
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Paxton Township, Ross County - east
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Perry Township, Pike County - southeast
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Brushcreek Township - south, east of Marshall Township
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Marshall Township - south, west of Brushcreek Township
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Liberty Township - southwest
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Penn Township - west
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Fairfield Township - northwest
No municipalities are located in Paint Township. 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
Rainsboro is along
US-50 in the township.
Major highways
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Name and history
Paint Township takes its name from
Paint Creek. It is one of six
Paint Townships statewide.
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 Highland County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio