Dover Township is one of the fourteen townships of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 3,387 people in the township.
Geography Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships: Trimble Township - north Homer Township, Morgan County - northeast corner Ames Township - east Canaan Township - southeast corner Athens Township - south Waterloo Township - southwest corner York Township - west Ward Township, Hocking County - northwest corner
Several populated places are located in Dover Township: The village of Chauncey, in the center Part of the census-designated place of The Plains, in the south The unincorporated community of Millfield, in the north The unincorporated community of Liars Corner, in the east
Much of the township is part of the Wayne National Forest.DeLorme. Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. 7th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, p. 80. .
Name and history Dover Township was organized in 1811.
Statewide, other Dover Townships are located in Fulton, Tuscarawas, and Union counties.
Coal mining has historically been important in Dover Township, which was the site of the Millfield Mine disaster of 1930.
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