Washington Township is one of the fourteen townships

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 of Carroll County

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United States Census, 2000

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 found 1,061 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Augusta Township
  Augusta Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  Augusta Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,599 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• East Township
  East Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  East Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 859 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northeast
• Fox Township
  Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  Fox Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,075 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - east
• Lee Township
  Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  Lee Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,128 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - south
• Center Township
  Center Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  Center Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,412 people in the township, 1,222 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest
• Harrison Township
  Harrison Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  Harrison Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,498 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the west central part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - west
• Brown Township
  Brown Township, Carroll County, Ohio
  Brown Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 8,300 people in the township, 5,184 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in Washington Township.

Name and history

It is one of forty-three Washington Townships statewide. Originally Township 14 of range 5 of the Old Seven Ranges

Seven Ranges

The Seven Ranges was a land tract in eastern Ohio that was the first tract to be surveyed in what became the Public Land Survey System. The tract is across the northern edge, on the western edge, with the south and east sides along the Ohio River...

, and later a part of Columbiana County, the township was admitted whole with the formation of Carroll county. In March, 1836, the county commissioners took part of Washington township along with a part of Harrison Township to form Centre (later Center) 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.

The current office holders and end of their terms are

Trustees:

• Kevin L. Davis December 31 2013,
• Christopher Keyser December 31 2013,
• Darrell L. Shafer December 31 2011

Fiscal Officer (Clerk):

• Connie L. Days March 31 2012