Mecca Township is one of the twenty-four townships

Civil township

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 of Trumbull County

Trumbull County, Ohio

As of the census of 2000, there were 225,116 people, 89,020 households, and 61,690 families residing in the county. The population density was 365 people per square mile . There were 95,117 housing units at an average density of 154 per square mile...

, Ohio

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, United States

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 2,829 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Greene Township
  Greene Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Greene Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 986 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• Gustavus Township
  Gustavus Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Gustavus Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 948 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northeast corner
• Johnston Township
  Johnston Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Johnston Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,040 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - east
• Fowler Township
  Fowler Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Fowler Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,733 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Bazetta Township
  Bazetta Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Bazetta Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 6,306 people in the township.-Geography:Located at the center of the county, it borders the following townships:*Mecca Township - north...
  
   - south
• Champion Township
  Champion Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Champion Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 9,762 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Bristol Township
  Bristol Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Bristol Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,154 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - west
• Bloomfield Township
  Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
  Bloomfield Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,097 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in Mecca Township.

Name and history

It is the only Mecca Township statewide.

The history of drilling for oil in southwestern Mecca Township, beginning in the 1860s, was recorded in an article in a postal history magazine in 2000. The article was illustrated by maps of the area, by an envelope mailed from the Oil Diggins post office

Post office

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in May 1866, and by a photograph of the "Diggins" restaurant in West Mecca, stated to be "the only building standing as a reminder of the town of Oil Diggins".

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.