Ross Township is one of the fourteen townships

Civil township

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 of Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Ohio

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, Ohio

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. The 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

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 found 655 people in the township.

Geography

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

• Brush Creek Township
  Brush Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Brush Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 467 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...
  
   - north
• Saline Township
  Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Saline Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,454 people in the township, 1,011 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - northeast
• Knox Township
  Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Knox Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 5,011 people in the township, 2,179 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - east
• Island Creek Township
  Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Island Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 12,078 people in the township, 7,513 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - southeast corner
• Salem Township
  Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Salem Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,162 people in the township, 2,691 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - south
• Springfield Township
  Springfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio
  Springfield Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,568 people in the township, 1,231 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...
  
   - west

No municipalities are located in Ross Township.

Name and history

Statewide, other Ross Townships are located in Butler

Ross Township, Butler County, Ohio

Ross Township, one of thirteen townships in the county, is located in south-central Butler County, Ohio, United States, southwest of the city of Hamilton. The population was 6,448 in 2000, up from 6,383 in 1990; 5,886 of this total lived in the unincorporated portions of the township...

 and Greene

Ross Township, Greene County, Ohio

Ross Township is one of the twelve townships of Greene County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 744 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:...

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, 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.