Paris Township, Stark County, Ohio: Difference between revisions

|official_name = Paris Township, Ohio

|settlement_type = [[Township (United States)|Township]]

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|image_map = Map of Stark County Ohio With Municipal and Township Labels.PNG

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|map_caption = Municipalities and townships of Stark County

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|population_as_of = [[United States Census, 2000|2000]]

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|population_total = 5969

|population_density_km2 = 68.5

|population_density_sq_mi = 177.3

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'''Paris Township''' is one of the seventeen [[civil township|townships]] of [[Stark County, Ohio|Stark County]], [[Ohio]], [[United States]]. The [[United States Census, 2000|2000 census]] found 5,969 people in the township, 3,938 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.<ref>[http://www.osuedc.org/profiles/population/places.php?sid=41&fips=39151 Stark County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates] [[Ohio State University]], 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.</ref>

Part of the village of [[Minerva, Ohio|Minerva]] is located in southeastern Paris Township, and several [[unincorporated area|unincorporated communities]] lie in the township: [[New Franklin, Stark County, Ohio|New Franklin]] in the northeast, [[Paris, Ohio|Paris]] in the northwest, and [[Robertsville, Ohio|Robertsville]] in the east.

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|footnote=<ref>census data: 1820 : [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1820a-02.pdf 1820] page 137 , 1830 : {{cite book|title=The Ohio gazetteer: or, Topographical dictionary: describing the several ... in the State of Ohio |first=John |last=Kilbourn |page=332 |publisher=self |year=1831 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CDUWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA332&dq=Stark}} , 1840, 1880 : {{cite book|title=Historical Collections of Ohio, The Ohio Centennial Edition |last=Howe |first=Henry |year=1907 |publisher= The State of Ohio |page=285 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cBDVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA285}} , 1850, 1860, 1870 : [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1870a-08.pdf 1870] page 35 , 1890, 1900 : {{cite book |title=Population of the United States by states and territories, counties, and minor Civil Divisions, as returned at the Twelfth Census: 1900|last1=Hunt |first1=William C. |year=1901 |publisher=United States Census Printing Office |page=318|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Pnk9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA318}} , 1910, 1920, 1930 : [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch08.pdf 1930] page 56 , 1940, 1950 : [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/23761117v1ch09.pdf 1950] page 21 , 1960, 1970 : [http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/26084397v1ch3.pdf 1970] page 135 , 1990 : [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_1990_STF1_&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_1990_STF1_P001&-tree_id=100&-redoLog=true&-all_geo_types=N&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=06000US39151005&-geo_id=06000US39151020&-geo_id=06000US39151030&-geo_id=06000US39151035&-geo_id=06000US39151045&-geo_id=06000US39151050&-geo_id=06000US39151075&-search_results=01000US&-format=&-_lang=en 1990] , 2000 : [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-CONTEXT=dt&-tree_id=4001&-redoLog=true&-all_geo_types=N&-geo_id=06000US3915106180&-geo_id=06000US3915141314&-geo_id=06000US3915143022&-geo_id=06000US3915147936&-geo_id=06000US3915158926&-geo_id=06000US3915159850&-geo_id=06000US3915175208&-search_results=01000US&-format=&-_lang=en 2000]</ref>

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,<ref>[http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/503.24 §503.24], [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/505.01 §505.01], and [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/507.01 §507.01] of the [[Ohio Revised Code]]. Accessed 4/30/2009.</ref> 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.

[[Category:Canton–Massillon, Ohio metropolitan area]]