Green Township is one of the sixteen townships of Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 12,246 people in the township.
Geography Located in the central part of the county, it borders the following townships: Milton Township - north Chippewa Township - northeast corner Baughman Township - east Sugar Creek Township - southeast corner East Union Township - south Wooster Township - southwest corner Wayne Township - west Canaan Township - northwest corner
The unincorporated community of Weilersville is located at the crossroads of the eponymous Weilersville Road and Eby Road in the southwestern quadrant of the township.U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Weilersville, Ohio Although it was once a bustling hamlet with numerous businesses, including a general store, a blacksmith, a woodworking shop, two stockyards, a grain elevator, an active line of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and even a post office, very little of the original community remains, and it is now largely a residential neighborhood directly south of the village of Smithville.
The settlement of Paradise was once centered around Rohrer Road in the center of the township. Nothing of the original community remains and it is now considered a historic settlement or a ghost town.U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Paradise (historic), Ohio
Two municipalities are located in Green Township: part of the city of Orrville in the east, and the village of Smithville in the west.
Name and history It is one of sixteen Green Townships statewide.
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,§503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 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 officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.
References
External links Wayne County township map County website