Liberty Township is one of the fourteen townships

Civil township

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 of Union County

Union County, Ohio

Union County is a county located in the US state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,300. Increasingly becoming more of a suburban county, the population was estimated at 47,234 in 2007 by the U.S. Census Bureau...

, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

United States

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

 found 1,705 people in the township.

Geography

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

• York Township
  York Township, Union County, Ohio
  York Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,174 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• Taylor Township
  Taylor Township, Union County, Ohio
  Taylor Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,444 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships:*Claibourne Township - northeast...
  
   - east
• Paris Township
  Paris Township, Union County, Ohio
  Paris Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 17,549 people in the township, 1,617 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast
• Allen Township
  Allen Township, Union County, Ohio
  Allen Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,518 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Liberty Township - north...
  
   - south
• Zane Township, Logan County
  Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio
  Zane Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 968 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:*Perry Township - north...
  
   - southwest
• Perry Township, Logan County
  Perry Township, Logan County, Ohio
  Perry Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,022 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Bokes Creek Township - north...
  
   - west

No municipalities are located in Liberty Township, although the unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 of Raymond

Raymond, Ohio

Raymond is an unincorporated community in eastern Liberty Township, Union County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43067. It is located at the intersection of State Routes 347 and 739....

 lies in the township's east.

Name and history

As of 1854, the population of the township was 1257. It is one of twenty-five Liberty Townships statewide

Liberty Township, Ohio

Liberty Township, Ohio may refer to:*Liberty Township, Adams County, Ohio*Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio*Liberty Township, Clinton County, Ohio*Liberty Township, Crawford County, Ohio*Liberty Township, Darke County, Ohio...

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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.

External links

• Township website
• Union County website