Jefferson Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Coordinates: 40°23′58″N 81°33′30″W / 40.39944°N 81.55833°W

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Jefferson Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Township
The former Angel Valley School on County Road 49
Location of Jefferson Township in Tuscarawas County
Coordinates: 40°23′58″N 81°33′30″W / 40.39944°N 81.55833°W / 40.39944; -81.55833
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Tuscarawas
Area
• Total	22.4 sq mi (57.9 km²)
• Land	22.3 sq mi (57.9 km²)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0.0 km²)
Elevation ^[1]	1,001 ft (305 m)
Population (2020)^[2]
• Total	958
• Density	43/sq mi (17/km²)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-38836^[3]
GNIS feature ID	1087057^[1]

Jefferson Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 958 people in the township,.

Geography

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

York Township - northeast
Clay Township - southeast
Salem Township - south
Adams Township, Coshocton County - southwest corner
Bucks Township - west
Auburn Township - northwest

The village of Stone Creek is located in central Jefferson Township.

Name and history

It is one of twenty-four Jefferson Townships statewide.^[4]

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. The current trustees are Perry Beavers, Scott P. Swaldo, and Kenneth Miskimen, and the fiscal officer is Brian Pfeiffer.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Jefferson 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.
^ "Detailed map of Ohio" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
^ Tuscarawas County, Ohio — Engineer: Joseph S. Bachman Archived 2007-05-28 at the Wayback Machine. Tuscarawas County. Accessed 2007-06-01.

External links

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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