Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio

Township in Ohio, United States

38°39′14″N 82°49′31″W / 38.65389°N 82.82528°W / 38.65389; -82.82528CountryUnited StatesStateOhioCountySciotoArea

• Total39.3 sq mi (101.7 km²) • Land38.8 sq mi (100.4 km²) • Water0.5 sq mi (1.3 km²)Elevation

^[1]

883 ft (269 m)Population

(2020)^[2]

• Total4,107 • Density105.9/sq mi (40.9/km²)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)FIPS code39-31836^[3]GNIS feature ID1086925^[1]

Green Township is one of the sixteen townships of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 4,107 people in the township.

Geography

Located in the far south of the county along the Ohio River, it borders the following townships:

Porter Township - north
Vernon Township - northeast
Elizabeth Township, Lawrence County - east
Hamilton Township, Lawrence County - southeast

Greenup County, Kentucky lies across the Ohio River to the west.

No municipalities are located in Green Township, although the census-designated place of Franklin Furnace lies in the northeastern part of the township, and the unincorporated community of Haverhill lies in the south of the township. Both of these communities are Ohio River towns.

Name and history

Named after Griffin Green, a land agent,^[4] it is one of sixteen Green Townships statewide.^[5]

Origins of Green Township date to between 1803 and 1811. The community of Haverhill was settled as early as 1797. The Powellsville community dates to July 31, 1846.^[6]

Green Township comprises most of the land that was the French Grant that was paid out by Congress in 1785 to French colonists were defrauded by the Scioto Company.^[7]^[8]

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,^[9] 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.

References

^ ^a ^b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Green township, Scioto County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ Bannon, Henry Towne (1927). Stories Old and Often Told, Being Chronicles of Scioto County, Ohio. Baltimore: Waverly Press. p. 274.
^ "Detailed map of Ohio" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
^ "Portsmouth Area Resource Guide, 2007-2008". The Community Common. July 29, 2007. p. 6.
^ 1 Stat. 442 - Text of Act of March 3, 1795 Library of Congress
^ "Townships". Scioto County. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
^ §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.