Clinton Township is one of the fifteen townships

Civil township

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 of Seneca County

Seneca County, Ohio

Seneca County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,745. Its county seat is Tiffin and it is named for the Seneca Indians.The Tiffin Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Seneca County....

, Ohio

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 4,188 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Pleasant Township
  Pleasant Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Pleasant Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,685 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• Adams Township
  Adams Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Adams Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,337 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northeast corner
• Scipio Township - east
• Bloom Township
  Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Bloom Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,937 people in the township, 892 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Eden Township
  Eden Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Eden Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,020 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Clinton Township - north...
  
   - south
• Seneca Township
  Seneca Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Seneca Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,585 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Hopewell Township
  Hopewell Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Hopewell Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,874 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the west central part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - west
• Liberty Township
  Liberty Township, Seneca County, Ohio
  Liberty Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,340 people in the township, 1,556 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northwest corner

Most of the city of Tiffin

Tiffin, Ohio

Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18,135 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Tiffin as a Tree City USA....

, the county seat

County seat

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of Seneca County, is located in western Clinton 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.