Bowling Green Township is one of the fifteen townships

Civil township

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 of Marion County

Marion County, Ohio

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 569 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Montgomery Township
  Montgomery Township, Marion County, Ohio
  Montgomery Township is one of the fifteen townships of Marion County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,498 people in the township, 1,175 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - north
• Big Island Township
  Big Island Township, Marion County, Ohio
  Big Island Township is one of the fifteen townships of Marion County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,223 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northeast
• Green Camp Township - east
• Jackson Township, Union County
  Jackson Township, Union County, Ohio
  Jackson Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 914 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - south
• Washington Township, Union County
  Washington Township, Union County, Ohio
  Washington Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 705 people in the township. In that year, the township included 413 registered voters.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest
• Hale Township, Hardin County
  Hale Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Hale Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,559 people in the township, 705 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - west
• Dudley Township, Hardin County
  Dudley Township, Hardin County, Ohio
  Dudley Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,257 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Goshen Township - north...
  
   - northwest

No municipalities are located in Bowling Green Township.

Name and history

Statewide, the only other Bowling Green Township is located in Licking County

Bowling Green Township, Licking County, Ohio

Bowling Green Township is one of the twenty-five townships of Licking County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,668 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...

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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.