Townsend Township is one of the twelve townships

Civil township

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 of Sandusky County

Sandusky County, Ohio

Sandusky County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 60,944. Its county seat is Fremont and it is named for a native word meaning "water" ....

, Ohio

Ohio

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, United States

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. As of 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...

, 1,670 people lived in the township.

Geography

Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:

• Margaretta Township, Erie County
  Margaretta Township, Erie County, Ohio
  Margaretta Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan statistical area...
  
   - northeast
• Groton Township, Erie County
  Groton Township, Erie County, Ohio
  Groton Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan statistical area...
  
   - southeast
• York Township
  York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
  York Township is one of the twelve townships of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, 2,512 people lived in the township.-Geography:Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - south
• Green Creek Township
  Green Creek Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
  Green Creek Township is one of the twelve townships of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, 9,527 people lived in the township, 3,467 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Riley Township
  Riley Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
  Riley Township is one of the twelve townships of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, 1,302 people lived in the township.-Geography:...
  
   - west

No municipalities are located in Townsend 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 Vickery

Vickery, Ohio

Vickery is an unincorporated community in western Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43464 and a volunteer fire department called Townsend Township FD....

 is located in the township's west.

Name and history

Statewide, the only other Townsend Township is located in Huron County

Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio

Townsend Township is one of the nineteen townships of Huron County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,567 people in the township.-Geography:Located on the northern edge of the county, it borders the following townships:...

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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.