Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio


Fox Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,041.

Geography

Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
No municipalities are located in Fox Township, although the unincorporated community of Mechanicstown lies in the township's northwest

Name and history

It is the only Fox Township statewide.
Fox Township, which is all of township 13, range 4 of the Old Seven Ranges, was taken from Columbiana County by the Ohio legislature in 1832-33.
On July 26, 1863 Major General John H. Morgan, C.S.A. of Morgan's Raiders and General James Shackleford U.S.A. fought the northernmost engagement of the American Civil War near Mechanicstown in this township.

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, 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 Edison Local School District in the southeast corner.

Notable natives and residents