Jackson Township (Ashland County, Ohio)

Ashland County

39-37660

Jackson Township is one of fifteen townships of Ashland County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 3554 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Jackson Township is located in the northeast of Ashland County in the central northeastern Ohio and borders clockwise to the townships: Homer Township in Medina County, Congress Township and Chester Township, Wayne County, Perry Township, Montgomery Township, Orange Township and Sullivan 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.