Miami Township is one of the seventeen
townships
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of
Logan County Logan County is the name of ten current counties and one former county in the United States:
* Logan County, Arkansas
* Logan County, Colorado
* Logan County, Idaho (1889–1895)
* Logan County, Illinois
* Logan County, Kansas
* Logan County, ...
,
Ohio
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, United States. As of the
2010 census, the population was 2,349.
Geography
Located in the southwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
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Pleasant Township - north
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Union Township - east
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Harrison Township, Champaign County - southeast
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Adams Township, Champaign County - south
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Perry Township, Shelby County - west
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Salem Township, Shelby County - northwest
Two villages are located in Miami Township:
Quincy in the west and part of
DeGraff in the northeast.
Name and history
Miami Township was organized in 1818. It is named after the
Great Miami River
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, which flows through the township. Statewide, other Miami Townships are found in
Clermont,
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,
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, and
Montgomery counties.
Government
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.
In the
elections of November 2007, Philip Weeks and Thomas Weiskittle
[Examiner Staff, The. "Township Trustees: Township fiscal officer", ''Bellefontaine Examiner'', 2007-11-07, p. 2.] were elected without opposition to the positions of township trustee and township fiscal officer respectively.
Transportation
Important highways in Miami Township include State Routes
235,
508, and
706.
References
External links
County websiteCounty and township map of Ohio
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Townships in Logan County, Ohio
1814 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1814
Townships in Ohio