Allen Township (Darke County, Ohio)

Darke County

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Allen Township is one of 20 townships of Darke County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 1158 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Allen Township is in the northwest of the Darke County in western Ohio and bordered clockwise to the townships: Granville Township in Mercer County, Wabash Township, York Township, Brown Township, Jackson Township, Mississinawa Township and Gibson Township ( Mercer 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 ( responsible for finance and budget), which is also elected in the year before the presidential election to a four -year term. Whose term of office begins on April 1.