Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

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Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Coordinates: 40°27′56″N 81°24′28″W / 40.46556°N 81.40778°W

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Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Township
Holmes United Methodist Church
Location of Goshen Township in Tuscarawas County
Coordinates: 40°27′56″N 81°24′28″W / 40.46556°N 81.40778°W / 40.46556; -81.40778
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Tuscarawas
Area
• Total	27.1 sq mi (70.3 km²)
• Land	26.7 sq mi (69.3 km²)
• Water	0.4 sq mi (1.0 km²)
Elevation ^[1]	955 ft (291 m)
Population (2020)^[2]
• Total	5,081
• Density	190.3/sq mi (73.3/km²)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-31066^[3]
GNIS feature ID	1087056^[1]

Goshen Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,081 people in the township.

Geography

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Located in the east central part of the county, it borders the following townships:

Fairfield Township - north
Warren Township - northeast
Union Township - east
Mill Township - southeast
Warwick Township - south
York Township - southwest
Dover Township - northwest

Several municipalities are located in Goshen Township:

The city of New Philadelphia, the county seat of Tuscarawas County, in the center and northwest
Part of the village of Barnhill, in the southeast
Part of the village of Midvale, in the southeast
Part of the village of Roswell, in the east

Name and history

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Goshen Township is named after the Land of Goshen, whose name was meant to imply fertility of the soil.^[4] It is one of seven Goshen Townships statewide.^[5] The township was established in 1808.^[6]

Within the township's boundaries is the old village of Goshen which was one of the settlements of the Christian Munsee.^{[citation needed]}

Government

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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. The current trustees are Bob Hausermann, Lisa Allen, and Dan Hodges, and the fiscal officer is Laura Engled.^[7]

References

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^ ^a ^b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Goshen township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 140.
^ "Detailed map of Ohio" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
^ File:Goshen Township Hall sign.JPG
^ "Goshen Township OH". Archived from the original on October 16, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.

External links

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County website Archived September 30, 2017, at the Wayback Machine

v t e Municipalities and communities of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States
County seat: New Philadelphia
Cities	Dover New Philadelphia Uhrichsville	Map of Ohio highlighting Tuscarawas County
Villages	Baltic‡ Barnhill Bolivar Dennison Gnadenhutten Midvale Mineral City Newcomerstown Parral Port Washington Roswell Stone Creek Strasburg Sugarcreek Tuscarawas Zoar
Townships	Auburn Bucks Clay Dover Fairfield Franklin Goshen Jefferson Lawrence Mill Oxford Perry Rush Salem Sandy Sugar Creek Union Warren Warwick Washington Wayne York
CDPs	Dundee Sandyville Wilkshire Hills
Unincorporated communities	Barrs Mills Bernice Blackband Columbia Eastport Gilmore Glasgow Goshen Hartwood Lock Seventeen Mount Tabor New Cumberland Newport Peoli Postboy Ragersville Rockford Somerdale Stillwater Wainwright West Chester Winfield Wolf Yorktown Zoarville
Ghost town	Three Legs Town
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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