Chatham Township is one of the seventeen townships

Civil township

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 of Medina County, Ohio

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 2,158 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Litchfield Township
  Litchfield Township, Medina County, Ohio
  Litchfield Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,250 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the west part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• York Township
  York Township, Medina County, Ohio
  York Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,912 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the central part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Liverpool Township - north...
  
   - northeast corner
• Lafayette Township
  Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio
  Lafayette Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,329 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the central part of the county, it borders the following townships:*York Township - north...
  
   - east
• Westfield Township
  Westfield Township, Medina County, Ohio
  Westfield Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,172 people in the township, 2,545 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Harrisville Township
  Harrisville Township, Medina County, Ohio
  Harrisville Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,914 people in the township, 1,853 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - south
• Homer Township
  Homer Township, Medina County, Ohio
  Homer Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,461 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Spencer Township - north...
  
   - southwest corner
• Spencer Township
  Spencer Township, Medina County, Ohio
  Spencer Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,429 people in the township, 1,682 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - west
• Penfield Township, Lorain County
  Penfield Township, Lorain County, Ohio
  Penfield Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,690 people in the township.-Geography:Located in southeastern Lorain County, it borders the following townships:*LaGrange Township - north...
  
  - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in Chatham Township.

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.