Union Township, Muskingum County, Ohio

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Union Township, Ohio
settlement_type = Township
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map_caption = Municipalities and townships of Muskingum County.


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

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area_total_km2 = 65.9
area_land_km2 = 65.9
area_water_km2 = 0.0
area_total_sq_mi = 25.5
area_land_sq_mi = 25.4
area_water_sq_mi = 0.0

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 4359
population_density_km2 = 66.2
population_density_sq_mi = 171.4

timezone = Eastern (EST)
utc_offset = -5
timezone_DST = EDT
utc_offset_DST = -4
elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_m = 294
elevation_ft = 965
latd = 39 |latm = 59 |lats = 5 |latNS = N
longd = 81 |longm = 45 |longs = 28 |longEW = W

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Union Township is one of the twenty-five townships of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,359 people in the township, 1,595 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. [ [http://www.osuedc.org/profiles/population/places.php?sid=41&fips=39119 Muskingum County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates] Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.]

Geography

Located on the eastern edge of the county, it borders the following townships:
*Highland Township - north
*Adams Township, Guernsey County - northeast corner
*Westland Township, Guernsey County - east
*Rich Hill Township - south
*Salt Creek Township - southwest
*Perry Township - west
*Salem Township - northwest corner

Two incorporated villages are located in Union Township: New Concord in the northeast, and Norwich in the northwest.

Name and history

It is one of twenty-seven Union 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 board of trustees and the township clerk for Union Township are listed below followed by the year in which their term expires.fact|date=June 2008
*John Barrone, Trustee (2009)
*Robert Slack, Trustee (2009)
*Jeffrey Mathews, Trustee (2011)
*Richard Dailey, Clerk (2011)

References

External links

* [http://www.muskingumcounty.org County website]