Ross Township, one of thirteen townships

Civil township

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 in the county, is located in south-central Butler County

Butler County, Ohio

Butler County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2010, the population was 368,130. Its county seat is Hamilton. It is named for General Richard Butler, who died in 1791 fighting Indians in northern Ohio. Butler's army marched out of Fort Hamilton, where the city of...

, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

United States

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, southwest of the city of Hamilton

Hamilton, Ohio

Hamilton is a city in Butler County, southwestern Ohio, United States. The population was 62,447 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Butler County. The city is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area....

. The population was 6,448 in 2000

United States Census, 2000

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, up from 6,383 in 1990

United States Census, 1990

The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 Census....

; 5,886 of this total lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. It originally comprised twenty-seven whole and seven fractional sections in the Congress Lands

Congress Lands

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.

History

One of the five original townships of the county, it was erected by the Butler County Court of Quarter Sessions on May 10, 1803, with these boundaries:

Beginning on the west bank of the Miami

Great Miami River

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 at the northeast corner of fractional township

Survey township

Survey township, sometimes called Congressional township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System, refers to a square unit of land, that is nominally six miles on a side...

 No. 1 of the third range west of the Miami; thence west to the western boundary of the county; thence south to the southwest corner of the county; thence east with the southern boundary of the county to the Miami; thence northwestwardly up the Miami to the place of beginning.

Historic population figures

• 1820—1,665
• 1830—1,745
• 1890—1,450
• 1900—1,338
• 1910—1,276
• 1920—1,239
• 1930—1,418
• 1940—1,536
• 1950—1,984
• 1960—3,340
• 1970—3,819
• 1980—5,626
• 1990—6,377

Geography

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

• Hanover Township
  Hanover Township, Butler County, Ohio
  Hanover Township, one of thirteen townships in the county, is located in west-central Butler County, Ohio, United States, midway between Hamilton and Oxford. It had a population of 7,878 in 2000, up from 7,653 in 1990. Rapidly growing, the Census Bureau in 2004 estimated the population was 8,751...
  
   - north
• St. Clair Township
  St. Clair Township, Butler County, Ohio
  St. Clair Township, one of thirteen townships in Butler County, Ohio, United States, consists of three disconnected pieces located along the Great Miami River in central Butler County. It had a population of 7,336 in 2000, down from 7,670 in 1990. Exclusive of the village of New Miami, which lies...
  
   - northeast
• Fairfield Township
  Fairfield Township, Butler County, Ohio
  Fairfield Township, one of thirteen townships in Butler County, Ohio, United States, is located in the south central portion of the county. It had a population of 15,571 in 2000, down sharply from 49,353 in 1990 because of the withdrawal of the city of Fairfield in 1994 and annexations from...
  
   - east
• Colerain Township, Hamilton County
  Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio
  Colerain Township is one of the twelve townships of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 60,144 people in the township, more than in any other township in Ohio.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast
• Crosby Township, Hamilton County
  Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio
  Crosby Township is one of the twelve townships of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,748 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southwest
• Morgan Township
  Morgan Township, Butler County, Ohio
  Morgan Township, one of thirteen townships in the county, is located in the southwestern corner of Butler County, Ohio, United States, on the state line with Indiana. It had a population of 5,328 in 2000, up from 4,972 in 1990. There are no incorporated places in the township. Unincorporated...
  
   - west
• Reily Township
  Reily Township, Butler County, Ohio
  Reily Township, one of thirteen townships in the county, is located in west-central Butler County, Ohio, United States. It has a population of 2,568 in 2000, up from 2,521 in 1990. There are no incorporated places in the township, but the communities of Bunker Hill, Newkirk, Scipio, St. Charles,...
  
   - northwest corner

Name

It is named for James Ross (1762–1847), a Federalist United States Senator from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 when the township was erected. Statewide, other Ross Townships are located in Greene

Ross Township, Greene County, Ohio

Ross Township is one of the twelve townships of Greene County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 744 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...

 and Jefferson

Ross Township, Jefferson County, Ohio

Ross Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 655 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...

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.

External links

• County website