Canaan Township is one of the fourteen townships of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,586 people in the township.
Geography Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships: Ames Township - north Bern Township - northeast corner Rome Township - east Carthage Township - southeast corner Lodi Township - south Alexander Township - southwest corner Athens Township - west Dover Township - northwest corner
Part of the city of Athens is located in western Canaan Township. Canaan Township contains the unincorporated community of Canaanville.
The township is bisected by the Hocking River and U.S. Route 50. It includes most of Strouds Run State Park.DeLorme. Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. 7th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, p. 80. .
Name and history Canaan Township was organized in 1819.
Statewide, other Canaan Townships are located in Madison County, Morrow County, and Wayne counties.
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 Township website