Wayne Township, Butler County, Ohio


Wayne Township, one of thirteen townships in the county, is located in north-central Butler County, Ohio, United States between Trenton and Oxford. It had a total population of 4,443 at the 2010 census, up from 4,252 in 2000. Exclusive of the two incorporated villages in the township, Jacksonburg and Seven Mile, Wayne Township had a population of 3,884 in 2010. It has an area of, comprising one whole survey township in the Congress Lands.

History

Wayne was the sixth township of the county, erected from St. Clair Township by the Butler County Commissioners on December 2, 1805, with these boundaries:

Name

Named for General Anthony Wayne, it is one of twenty Wayne Townships in Ohio.

Historic population figures

Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Two villages are located in Wayne Township: Jacksonburg in the northeast, and part of Seven Mile, in the south.

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.

Public services

The township is in the Edgewood Local School District.
The township is in the Trenton and Seven Mile telephone exchanges.
Major roads are U.S. Route 127, and State Routes 73, 122, 503, and 744.