Franklin Township, Columbiana County, Ohio
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|image_skyline = Summitville, Ohio - Saint John's 2011-02-04.JPG
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|subdivision_name1 = Ohio
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = Columbiana
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|area_total_km2 = 59.7
|area_land_km2 = 59.6
|area_water_km2 = 0.2
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|population_as_of = 2020
|population_total = 735
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|timezone = Eastern (EST)
|utc_offset = -5
|timezone_DST = EDT
|utc_offset_DST = -4
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|elevation_m = 333
|elevation_ft = 1093
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|blank_info = 39-28238{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}
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Franklin Township is one of the eighteen townships of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census reported 735 people living in the township.
Geography
Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
- Center Township - northeast
- Wayne Township - east
- Washington Township - southeast
- Fox Township, Carroll County - southwest
- East Township, Carroll County - west
- Hanover Township - northwest
One village is located in Franklin Township:
- The village of Summitville, in the west
Name and history
{{US Census population
|1980= 831
|1990= 777
|2000= 766
|2010= 835
|2020= 735
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It is one of twenty-one Franklin Townships statewide.{{Cite web| title = Detailed map of Ohio| publisher = United States Census Bureau| year = 2000| url = http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/general_ref/cousub_outline/cen2k_pgsz/oh_cosub.pdf| format = PDF| access-date =February 16, 2007}}
The township was organized in 1816.{{cite book |title=History of the upper Ohio Valley |volume=2 |first=Gibson Lamb |last=Cranmer |publisher=Brant & Fuller |location=Madison, Wisconsin |year=1891 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGKgCxz8tG0C&pg=PA22&dq=Franklin}}{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ONQyAQAAMAAJ | title=History of Columbiana County, Ohio and Representative Citizens | publisher=Biographical Publishing Company | author=McCord, William B. | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ONQyAQAAMAAJ/page/n301 312]}}
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,[http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/503.24 §503.24], [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/505.01 §505.01], and [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/507.01 §507.01] of the Ohio Revised Code. 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.
=Township Trustees=
- Joe Medure, Chairman{{cite web|url=https://www.columbiana.boe.ohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Columbiana-County-Elected-Officials-2.11.21.pdf|title=2020 General Election Results for Columbiana County|access-date=February 19, 2021|archive-date=June 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608124934/https://www.columbiana.boe.ohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Columbiana-County-Elected-Officials-2.11.21.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- Mike Lutz, Vice Chairman
- Mike Johnson
=Fiscal Officer=
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701090512/http://www.columbianacounty.org/ County website]
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Category:Townships in Columbiana County, Ohio
Category:1816 establishments in Ohio