Jackson Township (Allen County, Ohio)

Allen County

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Jackson Township is one of twelve townships nationwide of all counties in the U.S. state of Ohio and one of the 37 Jackson townships. According to the census in 2000 2936 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Jackson Township is located in the east of the Allen County in northwest Ohio and bordered clockwise to the townships: Richland Township, Orange Township, Hancock County, Liberty Township and Marion Township, Hardin County, Auglaize Township, Perry Township, Monroe Township and Bath 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.