Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio

Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio
Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio
Township
	U.S. Route 40 in the township's southeast
	Location of Kirkwood Township in Belmont County
	Coordinates: 40°4′35″N 81°10′10″W / 40.07639°N 81.16944°W
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Belmont
Area
• Total	36.7 sq mi (95.0 km2)
• Land	35.3 sq mi (91.5 km2)
• Water	1.4 sq mi (3.5 km2)
Elevation	965 ft (294 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	412
• Density	11/sq mi (4.3/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-40600
GNIS feature ID	1085779

Kirkwood Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 412 people in the township.^[3]

Geography

Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:

Flushing Township - north
Union Township - east
Goshen Township - southeast
Warren Township - south
Oxford Township, Guernsey County - southwest
Londonderry Township, Guernsey County - northwest

Part of the village of Fairview is located in southwestern Kirkwood Township.

The Egypt Valley Wildlife Area comprises a significant portion of the township.

Name and history

Kirkwood Township was named for Robert Kirkwood, a soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War.^[4]^[5] It is the only Kirkwood Township statewide.^[6]

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,^[7] 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

^ ^a ^b "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Kirkwood township, Belmont County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 176.
^ McKelvey, A. T. (1903). Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens. Biographical Publishing Company. p. 267.
^ "Detailed map of Ohio" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved February 16, 2007.
^ §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.

External links

County website

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[GR3-1] "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.

[GR2-2] "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.

[3] "Kirkwood township, Belmont County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 24, 2023.

[4] Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 176.

[5] McKelvey, A. T. (1903). Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens. Biographical Publishing Company. p. 267.

[6] "Detailed map of Ohio" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved February 16, 2007.

[7] §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Belmont County, Ohio, United States
County seat: St. Clairsville
Cities	Martins Ferry St. Clairsville	Map of Ohio highlighting Belmont County
Villages	Barnesville Bellaire Belmont Bethesda Bridgeport Brookside Fairview‡ Flushing Holloway Morristown Powhatan Point Shadyside Wilson‡ Yorkville‡
Townships	Colerain Flushing Goshen Kirkwood Mead Pease Pultney Richland Smith Somerset Union Warren Washington Wayne Wheeling York
CDPs	Bannock Blaine Glencoe Lafferty Lansing Lloydsville Neffs Wolfhurst
Unincorporated communities	Alledonia Anvil Armstrongs Mills Badgertown Baileys Mills Barton Boston Businessburg Captina Centerville Colerain Crescent Dilles Bottom Egypt Fairpoint Farmington Hendrysburg Hunter Jacobsburg Key Lamira Maynard McClainville Pleasant Grove Riverview Sewellsville Somerton Steinersville Stewartsville Tacoma Temperanceville Uniontown Warnock
Ghost town	Kelsey
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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