Jefferson Township (Ashtabula County, Ohio)

Ashtabula County

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Jefferson Township is one of 27 townships of Ashtabula County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 5559 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Jefferson Township is located north of the geographical center of the Ashtabula County in the far northeast Ohio, is located in the north about 15 km from Lake Erie, and borders clockwise to the townships: Plymouth Township, Sheffield Township, Denmark Township Dorset Township, Lenox Township, Morgan Township, Austinburg Township and Saybrook 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.