Wayne Township, Noble County, Ohio

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|official_name = Wayne Township, Noble County, Ohio

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|image_skyline = Abner Williams Log House.jpg

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|subdivision_type = Country

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|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Noble

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|area_total_km2 = 55.4

|area_land_km2 = 46.4

|area_water_km2 = 9.0

|area_total_sq_mi = 21.4

|area_land_sq_mi = 17.9

|area_water_sq_mi = 3.5

|population_as_of = 2020

|population_footnotes = {{cite web |title=Wayne township, Noble County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Wayne_township,_Noble_County,_Ohio?g=060XX00US3912182250 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=3 August 2023}}

|population_total = 479

|population_density_km2 = auto

|population_density_sq_mi = auto

|timezone = Eastern (EST)

|utc_offset = -5

|timezone_DST = EDT

|utc_offset_DST = -4

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|elevation_m = 288

|elevation_ft = 945

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Wayne Township is one of the fifteen townships of Noble County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 479 people in the township.

Geography

Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:

No municipalities are located in Wayne Township.

Name and history

It is one of twenty Wayne Townships statewide.{{Cite web| title = Detailed map of Ohio| work = | 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| accessdate =2007-02-16}}

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 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.

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