Harrison Township, Carroll County, Ohio

Harrison Township, Carroll County, Ohio
Township
Bicentennial Barn along Route 171 at 43
Location of Harrison Township in Carroll County
Coordinates: 40°36′48″N81°8′55″W / 40.61333°N 81.14861°W / 40.61333; -81.14861
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Carroll
Area
• Total	31.4 sq mi (81.2 km2)
• Land	31.3 sq mi (81.1 km2)
• Water	0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation [1]	1,135 ft (346 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	2,397
• Density	77/sq mi (29.6/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-33782 [2]
GNIS feature ID	1085829 [1]
Website	www.carrollcountyohio.us/townships/harrisontownship.html

Harrison Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,397. ^[3]

Geography

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

• Brown Township - north
• Augusta Township - northeast corner
• Washington Township - east
• Center Township - southeast, north of Union Township
• Union Township - southeast, south of Center Township
• Monroe Township - southwest
• Rose Township - west

No municipalities are located in Harrison Township. The unincorporated community New Harrisburg is located centrally.

Name and history

It is one of nineteen Harrison Townships statewide. ^[4]

In 1817, Harrison Township was formed from a part of Sandy Township in Stark County. ^[5] The township originally was within Stark County until the formation of Carroll County. It had all of the original surveyed township 15, range 6 of the Old Seven Ranges, until the county commissioners took four and one-half sections in the formation of Centre (later Center) township. ^[6]

A route of the Underground Railroad passed through the township along Baxter Ridge. ^{[7] [8]}

Government

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1820	518		—
1830	1,086		109.7%
1840	1,308		20.4%
1850	1,268		−3.1%
1860	1,033		−18.5%
1870	1,024		−0.9%
1880	1,075		5.0%
1890	915		−14.9%
1900	799		−12.7%
1910	750		−6.1%
1920	711		−5.2%
1930	678		−4.6%
1940	765		12.8%
1950	954		24.7%
1960	1,249		30.9%
1970	1,278		2.3%
1980	1,807		41.4%
1990	2,127		17.7%
2000	2,498		17.4%
2010	2,478		−0.8%
2020	2,397		−3.3%
[9]

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, ^[10] 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.

Education

Students attend the Carrollton Exempted Village School District in most of the township and Brown Local School District in a corner of the township. ^[11]

Notable residents

• Leonard Harsh (1801–1866), member of the Ohio House of Representatives ^[12]
• Isaac H. Taylor — lawyer, judge, and single-term U.S. Representative
• Jonathan Weaver - 19th century bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.

References

1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
3. OhioDepartment of Development
4. "Detailed map of Ohio" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
5. Perrin, William Henry, ed. (1881). History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio. Chicago: Baskin and Battey. p. 205. OCLC   23276454.
6. Eckley, H.J.; Perry, W.T. (1921). History of Carroll and Harrison Counties. The Lewis Publishing Co. p. 182.
7. Geographic Names Information System. "GNIS entry for Baxter Ridge (Feature ID #1070672)" . Retrieved January 8, 2010.
8. Eckley, H.J.; Perry, W.T. (1921). History of Carroll and Harrison Counties. The Lewis Publishing Co. p. 194.
9. census data: 1820 : 1820 page 137, 1830 : Kilbourn, John (1831). The Ohio gazetteer: or, Topographical dictionary: describing the several ... in the State of Ohio. self. p. 332., 1840, 1880 : Howe, Henry (1907). Historical Collections of Ohio, The Ohio Centennial Edition. The State of Ohio. p.  359., 1850 : 1850 page 14, 1860 : 1860 page 12, 1870 : 1870 page 24, 1890,1900 : Hunt, William C. (1901). Population of the United States by states and territories, counties, and minor Civil Divisions, as returned at the Twelfth Census: 1900. United States Census Printing Office. p. 306., 1900,1910,1920 : Austin, William Lane; Teele, Ray Palmer (1921). Fourteenth census of the United States, Volume 1. Government Printing Office. p.  561., 1930 : 1930 page 40, 1940 : 1940 page 83, 1950 : 1950 page 14, 1960 : 1960 page 16, 1970 : 1970 page 124, 1980 : 1980 & 1990 Census Information, at reference desk, Carroll County District Library, 1990 : 1990 , 2000 : 2000 , 2010 : , 2020 : 2020
10. §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.
11. PUC Ohio map of School Districts Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
12. Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio. J. H. Beers & Co. 1891. pp. 937–938. Retrieved October 4, 2023– via Archive.org.

External links

• County website