Clay Township is one of the twenty-two townships

Civil township

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 of Tuscarawas County

Tuscarawas County, Ohio

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, Ohio

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United States Census, 2000

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 found 1,981 people in the township, 721 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.

Geography

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

• York Township
  York Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  York Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,292 people in the township.-Geography:Located at the center of the county, it borders the following townships:*Dover Township - north...
  
   - north
• Warwick Township
  Warwick Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Warwick Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,746 people in the township, 1,788 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northeast
• Rush Township
  Rush Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Rush Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 887 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - east
• Perry Township
  Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Perry Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 462 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Washington Township
  Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Washington Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 762 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - south
• Salem Township
  Salem Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Salem Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,673 people in the township, 1,121 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest
• Jefferson Township
  Jefferson Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Jefferson Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 976 people in the township, 792 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northwest

Part of the village of Gnadenhutten

Gnadenhutten, Ohio

Gnadenhutten is a village located on the Tuscarawas River in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States and is Ohio's oldest existing settlement. The population was 1,280 at the 2000 census....

is located in eastern Clay Township.

Clay Township contains the unincorporated locale of Seventeen, alternately "Lock Seventeen" .

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 Ruby Kinsey, Harvey Morrison, and Tom Morrison, and the fiscal officer is Sharon Miller.