White Eyes Township is one of the twenty-two townships

Civil township

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 of Coshocton County

Coshocton County, Ohio

Coshocton County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 36,901. Its county seat is Coshocton. Its name comes from the Delaware Indian language and has been translated as "union of waters" or "black bear crossing".The Coshocton...

, 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 1,078 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Crawford Township
  Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Crawford Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,594 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• Bucks Township, Tuscarawas County
  Bucks Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
  Bucks Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,601 people in the township, 972 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northeast corner
• Adams Township
  Adams Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Adams Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 755 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the far eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - east
• Oxford Township
  Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Oxford Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,560 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the far eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Lafayette Township
  Lafayette Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Lafayette Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,285 people in the township, 1,972 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - south
• Tuscarawas Township
  Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Tuscarawas Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,798 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the south central part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - southwest corner
• Keene Township
  Keene Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Keene Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,689 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the north central part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - west
• Mill Creek Township
  Mill Creek Township, Coshocton County, Ohio
  Mill Creek Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 747 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in White Eyes Township, although the unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 of Fresno

Fresno, Ohio

Fresno is a census-designated place in eastern White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43824. It lies along State Route 93 between West Lafayette and Baltic....

lies in the eastern 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.