Miami Township is one of the fourteen

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of Clermont County,

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, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 40,848, up from 36,632 in 2000. The township's students are served mostly by Milford Exempted Village Schools.

Geography

Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships: * Hamilton Township, Warren County - north * Goshen Township - northeast * Stonelick Township - southeast * Union Township - south * Anderson Township, Hamilton County - southwest corner * Columbia Township, Hamilton County - southwest, north of Anderson Township * Symmes Township, Hamilton County - west Many populated places are located in Miami Township: *Part of the city of Loveland, in the north *Part of the city of Milford, in the southwest *The

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of Day Heights, in the center *The census-designated place of

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, in the center *The census-designated place of Mulberry, in the west *The

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of Miamiville, in the west.

Name and history

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, Hamilton, Logan, and Montgomery counties. Miami Township was created in 1801 as O'Bannon Township, after O'Bannon Creek, a tributary of the

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that runs through the township. O'Bannon Creek was named for Clermont County's first surveyor. The particular stretch of the circle highway Interstate 275 was completed in the 1960s, running through the middle of the community.

Government

In 1991, the state legislature and George Voinovich adopted "Limited Home Rule Townships" as a schism from the

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's Municipal Home Rule established in 1912. The alteration

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township government to be similar to municipalities but without full home rule, a city code, comprehensive zoning, among a host of other traits. The result is many developed townships which would have sought shared

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with cities or villages have not maximized

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and do not have basic support for services and infrastructure, relying exclusively on reduced state funding—much of which comes from federal investments for roadwork. The autonomy which was sought has effectively been unable to reserve responsibility for the community and instead outsourced that responsibility to state intervention. The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. As of late 2015, the board was composed of Karl Schultz, Ken Tracy, and Mary Makley Wolff, and the fiscal officer was Eric C. Ferry.Elected Officials
, Miami Township. Accessed 2008-12-25.

News service

The ''Clermont Sun'' is the county newspaper while the ''Eastside Press'' serves the eastern communities of Greater Cincinnati, both catering to Milford-Miami Township.

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