Ruggles Township, Ashland County, Ohio

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Ruggles Township, Ashland County, Ohio
settlement_type = Township
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map_caption = Location of Ruggles Township in Ashland County.


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Ohio
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Ashland

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area_total_km2 = 67.2
area_land_km2 = 67.0
area_water_km2 = 0.2
area_total_sq_mi = 25.9
area_land_sq_mi = 25.9
area_water_sq_mi = 0.1

population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 857
population_density_km2 = 12.8
population_density_sq_mi = 33.1

timezone = Eastern (EST)
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elevation_m = 331
elevation_ft = 1086
latd = 41 |latm = 2 |lats = 23 |latNS = N
longd = 82 |longm = 23 |longs = 2 |longEW = W

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Ruggles Township is one of the fifteen townships of Ashland County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 857 people in the township. [ [http://www.osuedc.org/profiles/population/places.php?sid=41&fips=39005 Ashland County, Ohio — Population by Places Estimates] Ohio State University, 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007.]

Geography

Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
*New London Township, Huron County - north
*Rochester Township, Lorain County - northeast corner
*Troy Township - east
*Orange Township - southeast
*Clear Creek Township - south
*Butler Township, Richland County - southwest
*Greenwich Township, Huron County - west
*Fitchville Township, Huron County - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in Ruggles Township.

Name and history

It is the only Ruggles Township statewide.

This township is included in the region known as the Firelands and was originally a part of adjacent Huron County. It is named for Almon Ruggles, a surveyor retained by the Connecticut Land Company in 1808 and the first county recorder of Huron County. ["Milan and the Milan Canal", by Charles E. Frohman, c.1976, pp. 26-28.]

Huron County was established by the Ohio General Assembly on February 7, 1809 and, at the time, comprised present-day Erie County (except a small part in the northwest); Huron County, Ruggles Township in Ashland County, and Danbury Township in Ottawa County ["Ohio Lands, A Short History", a publication of the Ohio Auditor of State, c. 1994, p. 10.] - in short, the entire Firelands.

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 clerk, 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 clerkship or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

References

External links

* [http://www.ashlandcounty.org County website]