Deerfield Township is one of the fourteen townships

Civil township

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 of Morgan County

Morgan County, Ohio

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, Ohio

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 802 people in the township.

Geography

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

• York Township
  York Township, Morgan County, Ohio
  York Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 958 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• Bloom Township
  Bloom Township, Morgan County, Ohio
  Bloom Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,015 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northeast
• Malta Township
  Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio
  Malta Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,964 people in the township, 1,268 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - east
• Union Township
  Union Township, Morgan County, Ohio
  Union Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 607 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Deerfield Township - north...
  
   - south
• Monroe Township, Perry County
  Monroe Township, Perry County, Ohio
  Monroe Township is one of the fourteen townships of Perry County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,565 people in the township, 926 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Bearfield Township, Perry County
  Bearfield Township, Perry County, Ohio
  Bearfield Township is one of the fourteen townships of Perry County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,412 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Harrison Township - north...
  
   - west

No municipalities are located in Deerfield Township.

Name and history

Statewide, other Deerfield Townships are located in Portage

Deerfield Township, Portage County, Ohio

Deerfield Township is one of the eighteen townships of Portage County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,211 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...

, Ross

Deerfield Township, Ross County, Ohio

Deerfield Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,096 people in the township, 580 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...

, and Warren

Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio

Deerfield Township, one of the eleven townships of Warren County, Ohio, United States, is located in the southwest corner of the county. The most urbanized of the eleven, it had 25,515 people in the 2000 census, down from the 26,359 in 1990...

Counties.

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.

As of 2007, the trustees are Casey Clemens, Paul Hinkle, and Terry Nelson, and the clerk is Phyllis Reed.