Wheeling Township (Belmont County, Ohio)

Belmont County

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Wheeling Township is one of 16 townships of Belmont County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 1477 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Wheeling Township is located in the north of Belmont County in eastern Ohio and borders clockwise to the townships: Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Mount Pleasant Township in Jefferson County, Colerain Township, Richland Township, Union Township, Flushing Township and Athens Township in Harrison County.

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.