Athens Township (Athens County, Ohio)

Athens County

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Athens Township is one of 14 townships of Athens County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in the year 2000 27.714 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Athens Township is located just west of the geographical center of Athens County in southeastern Ohio and bordered clockwise to the townships: Dover Township, Ames Township, Canaan Township, Lodi Township, Alexander Township, Lee Township, Waterloo Township and York Township.

Management

The township is administered by a Board of Trustees consisting of three elected members. Two persons are elected in the year after the presidential election and one each in the previous year. The term of office lasts four years, beginning on 1 January. There is also a Township Clerk (Secretary), who is also elected in the year before the presidential election to a four -year term. Whose term of office begins on April 1.