Salem Township is one of the fourteen townships

Civil township

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 of Shelby County

Shelby County, Ohio

As of the census of 2000, there were 47,910 people, 17,636 households, and 13,085 families residing in the county. The population density was 117 people per square mile . There were 18,682 housing units at an average density of 46 per square mile...

, 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 2,231 people in the township, 1,910 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.

Geography

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

• Jackson Township
  Jackson Township, Shelby County, Ohio
  Jackson Township is one of the fourteen townships of Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,346 people in the township, 977 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - north
• Bloomfield Township, Logan County
  Bloomfield Township, Logan County, Ohio
  Bloomfield Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 419 people in the township, making Bloomfield the smallest township in Logan County in population.-Geography:...
  
   - northeast
• Pleasant Township, Logan County
  Pleasant Township, Logan County, Ohio
  Pleasant Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,082 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - east
• Miami Township, Logan County
  Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio
  Miami Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,352 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southeast
• Perry Township
  Perry Township, Shelby County, Ohio
  Perry Township is one of the fourteen townships of Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,128 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:*Salem Township - north...
  
   - south
• Clinton Township
  Clinton Township, Shelby County, Ohio
  Clinton Township is one of the fourteen townships of Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 20,903 people in the township, 1,223 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest
• Franklin Township
  Franklin Township, Shelby County, Ohio
  Franklin Township is one of the fourteen townships of Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,842 people in the township, 1,773 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northwest

The village of Port Jefferson

Port Jefferson, Ohio

Port Jefferson is a village in Salem Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The population was 321 at the 2000 census.-History:First known as Pratt, the village adopted its present name when it was incorporated on April 18, 1842. Port Jefferson was located where the Sidney feeder canal...

 is located in southern Salem Township, and unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 of Maplewood

Maplewood, Ohio

Maplewood is an unincorporated community in northern Salem Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 45340...

lies in the northern part of the 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.