Kingsville Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio

Ashtabula County

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Kingsville Township is one of 27 townships of Ashtabula County in the U.S. state of Ohio. According to the census in 2000 1847 inhabitants were registered here.

Geography

Kingsville Township is located in the northeast of Ashtabula County in the extreme northeastern Ohio, approximately 5 km away from Lake Erie to the north and bordered clockwise to the city limits of Conneaut and the townships: Monroe Township, Sheffield Township, Plymouth Township and Ashtabula 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.

History

The first settlers in Kingsville Township was Walter Fobes, who came from Connecticut in 1804. The township was established in 1810.