Center Township is one of the nineteen townships

Civil township

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 of Wood County

Wood County, Ohio

Wood County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 125,488. Its county seat is Bowling Green. The county was named for Captain Eleazer D. Wood, the engineer for General William Henry Harrison's army, who built Fort Meigs in the War of 1812...

, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

United States

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 1,246 people in the township.

Geography

Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships:

• Middleton Township
  Middleton Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Middleton Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,598 people in the township, 1,960 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - north
• Webster Township
  Webster Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Webster Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,277 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern central part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northeast
• Freedom Township
  Freedom Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Freedom Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,695 people in the township, 1,330 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - east
• Montgomery Township
  Montgomery Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Montgomery Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,505 people in the township, 1,872 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Portage Township
  Portage Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Portage Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,516 people in the township, 988 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - south
• Liberty Township
  Liberty Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Liberty Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,862 people in the township, 1,730 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Plain Township
  Plain Township, Wood County, Ohio
  Plain Township is one of the nineteen townships of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,706 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships:*Middleton Township - north...
  
   - west

Much of the city of Bowling Green

Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green is the county seat of Wood County in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Bowling Green was 30,028. It is part of the Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University...

, the county seat

County seat

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 of Wood County, is located in western Center Township.

Center Township is also the location of the Wood County Airport

Airport

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, and of the intersection of I-75

Interstate 75

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 and U.S. Route 6

U.S. Route 6

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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.