Goshen Township, Mahoning County, Ohio

Goshen Township is one of the fourteen townships of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,281 people in the township. Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.

Geography

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

• Ellsworth Township - northeast
• Green Township - east
• Perry Township, Columbiana County - southeast
• Butler Township, Columbiana County - south
• Knox Township, Columbiana County - southwest corner
• Smith Township - west
• Berlin Township - northwest

No municipalities are located in Goshen Township, although the unincorporated community of Damascus lies in the southwestern part of the township.

Name and history

It is one of seven Goshen Townships statewide.

For many years, the township was part of Columbiana County, before becoming part of Mahoning County in 1846.

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,, , and of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009. 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...
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