Newcastle Township, Coshocton County, Ohio

Coordinates: 40°20′51″N 82°8′7″W / 40.34750°N 82.13528°W

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Newcastle Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
Township
Post office at Walhonding
Location of Newcastle Township in Coshocton County
Coordinates: 40°20′51″N 82°8′7″W / 40.34750°N 82.13528°W / 40.34750; -82.13528
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Coshocton
Area
• Total	25.83 sq mi (66.89 km²)
• Land	25.81 sq mi (66.86 km²)
• Water	0.01 sq mi (0.03 km²)
Elevation ^[1]	820 ft (250 m)
Population (2020)^[2]
• Total	442
• Density	17/sq mi (6.6/km²)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-54376^[3]
GNIS feature ID	1085923^[1]

Newcastle Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 442.

Geography

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

Tiverton Township - north
Monroe Township - northeast corner
Jefferson Township - east
Bedford Township - southeast corner
Perry Township - south
Jackson Township, Knox County - southwest corner
Butler Township, Knox County - west
Union Township, Knox County - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in Newcastle Township, although the unincorporated communities of Walhonding and Newcastle lie in the northern and southwestern parts of the township respectively.

Name and history

It is the only Newcastle Township statewide.^[4]

Newcastle Township was organized in 1811.^[5] Newcastle Township, also historically spelled New Castle, was named after New Castle, Delaware.^[6]

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,^[7] 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.

References

^ ^a ^b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Newcastle township, Coshocton County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 8, 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.
^ Hunt, William Ellis (1876). Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio. R. Clarke & Company. pp. 3.
^ Graham, Albert Adams (1881). History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881. A. A. Graham. pp. 565.
^ §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.

External links

County website

v t e Municipalities and communities of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States
County seat: Coshocton
City	Coshocton	Map of Ohio highlighting Coshocton County
Villages	Baltic‡ Conesville Nellie Plainfield Warsaw West Lafayette
Townships	Adams Bedford Bethlehem Clark Crawford Franklin Jackson Jefferson Keene Lafayette Linton Mill Creek Monroe Newcastle Oxford Perry Pike Tiverton Tuscarawas Virginia Washington White Eyes
CDPs	Canal Lewisville Fresno
Unincorporated communities	Bacon Bakersville Blissfield Cavallo Chili Cooperdale Helmick Isleta Keene Layland Linton Mills Maysville Mohawk Village Morgan Run New Bedford New Guilford New Moscow New Princeton Newcastle Orange Spring Mountain Tiverton Center Tunnel Hill Tyrone Wakatomika Walhonding West Bedford West Carlisle Wills Creek
Ghost towns	Birmingham Custalogas Town Delaneysville Delaware Town Lichtenau McGuire
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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