Wayne Township, Darke County, Ohio

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official_name = Wayne 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 = 82.6
area_land_km2 = 82.6
area_water_km2 = 0.0
area_total_sq_mi = 31.9
area_land_sq_mi = 31.9
area_water_sq_mi = 0.0

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 4349
population_density_km2 = 52.6
population_density_sq_mi = 136.3

timezone = Eastern (EST)
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timezone_DST = EDT
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elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_m = 299
elevation_ft = 981
latd = 40 |latm = 13 |lats = 17 |latNS = N
longd = 84 |longm = 29 |longs = 2 |longEW = W

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Wayne Township is one of the twenty townships of Darke County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,349 people in the township, 1,760 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 northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
*Patterson Township - north
*Cynthian Township, Shelby County - northeast corner
*Loramie Township, Shelby County - east
*Newberry Township, Miami County - southeast
*Adams Township - south
*Richland Township - southwest
*York Township - northwest

The village of Versailles is located in central Wayne Township.

Name and history

It is one of twenty Wayne 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 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 Michael Lawrence, Dennis Mestemaker, and Kenneth Moorman, and the clerk is Teresa Slonkosky. [ [http://www.co.darke.oh.us/trustees.htm Township Trustees] . Darke County. Accessed 2007-06-01.]

The township's government is housed in Versailles, at the Versailles Town Hall and Wayne Township House, a structure on the National Register of Historic Places.

References

External links

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