Rome Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio

Rome Township is one of the twenty-seven townships of Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,568 people in the township, 919 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.

Geography

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

• Morgan Township - north
• Lenox Township - northeast corner
• New Lyme Township - east
• Colebrook Township - southeast corner
• Orwell Township - south
• Windsor Township - southwest corner
• Hartsgrove Township - west
• Trumbull Township - northwest corner

Part of the village of Roaming Shores is located in northeastern Rome Township.

Name and history

Statewide, other Rome Townships are located in Athens and Lawrence Counties.

The first houses in Rome Township were built by settlers Elijah Crosby and Abner Hall in 1805, but the first permanent settler in the township was former Connecticut resident William Crowell, who arrived in the following year.

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...
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