Harrison Township, Carroll County, Ohio

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Harrison Township, Carroll County, Ohio
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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
  Total31.4 sq mi (81.2 km2)
  Land31.3 sq mi (81.1 km2)
  Water0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation
[1]
1,135 ft (346 m)
Population
 (2020)
  Total2,397
  Density77/sq mi (29.6/km2)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code 39-33782 [2]
GNIS feature ID1085829 [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]

Contents

Geography

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

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
CensusPop.Note
1820 518
1830 1,086109.7%
1840 1,30820.4%
1850 1,268−3.1%
1860 1,033−18.5%
1870 1,024−0.9%
1880 1,0755.0%
1890 915−14.9%
1900 799−12.7%
1910 750−6.1%
1920 711−5.2%
1930 678−4.6%
1940 76512.8%
1950 95424.7%
1960 1,24930.9%
1970 1,2782.3%
1980 1,80741.4%
1990 2,12717.7%
2000 2,49817.4%
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

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