Liberty Township, Darke County, Ohio

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official_name = Liberty Township, Darke County, Ohio
settlement_type = Township
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map_caption = Municipalities and townships of Darke County.


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Ohio
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Darke

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area_total_km2 = 86.0
area_land_km2 = 86.0
area_water_km2 = 0.0
area_total_sq_mi = 33.2
area_land_sq_mi = 33.2
area_water_sq_mi = 0.0

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 1132
population_density_km2 = 13.2
population_density_sq_mi = 34.1

timezone = Eastern (EST)
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elevation_m = 354
elevation_ft = 1161
latd = 40 |latm = 3 |lats = 20 |latNS = N
longd = 84 |longm = 45 |longs = 26 |longEW = W

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Liberty Township is one of the twenty townships of Darke County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,132 people in the township, 962 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. [ [http://www.osuedc.org/profiles/population/places.php?sid=41&fips=39037 Darke County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates] Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.]

Geography

Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
*Washington Township - north
*Greenville Township - northeast
*Neave Township - east
*Butler Township - southeast corner
*Harrison Township - south
*Franklin Township, Wayne County, Indiana - southwest
*Greensfork Township, Randolph County, Indiana - west

The village of Palestine is located in central Liberty Township.

Name and history

It is one of twenty-five Liberty Townships statewide. It was originally named German Township, but its name was changed to Liberty Township in the 1910s. [ [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/06229686v32-37ch3.pdf Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium, Volume 34: Ohio: Statistics of population occupations, agriculture, manufactures, and mines and quarries for the State, counties, and cities] . Footnote 6. Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce. 1925.]

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 clerk, 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 clerkship or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. The current trustees are Larry Helmer, Cutis Hiatt, and Raymond Mendenhall, and the clerk is Mary Alice Brewer. [ [http://www.co.darke.oh.us/trustees.htm Township Trustees] . Darke County. Accessed 2007-06-01.]

References

External links

* [http://www.co.darke.oh.us County website]