Salt Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Holmes County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 4,685.
Geography Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships: Salt Creek Township, Wayne County - north Paint Township, Wayne County - northeast corner Paint Township - east Walnut Creek Township - southeast corner Berlin Township - south Hardy Township - southwest Prairie Township - west Franklin Township, Wayne County - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Salt Creek Township, although the census-designated place of Mount Hope lies in the eastern part of the township.
Name and history It is one of five Salt Creek 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.
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External links County website