Mead Township, Belmont County, Ohio

Township in Ohio, United States

Mead Township, Belmont County, Ohio
Township
Cliffs along State Route 7
Location of Mead Township in Belmont County
Coordinates: 39°57′32″N 80°47′22″W / 39.95889°N 80.78944°W / 39.95889; -80.78944
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Belmont
Area
• Total	32.0 sq mi (83.0 km)
• Land	31.9 sq mi (82.7 km)
• Water	0.2 sq mi (0.4 km)
Elevation	1,066 ft (325 m)
Population
• Total	5,430
• Density	170/sq mi (65/km)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-48580
GNIS feature ID	1085780

Mead Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,430 people in the township.

Geography

Located in the southeastern part of the county along the Ohio River, it borders the following townships:

Pultney Township – northeast
York Township – south
Washington Township – southwest
Smith Township – west
Richland Township – northwest

Marshall County, West Virginia, lies across the Ohio River to the east.

Most of the village of Shadyside is located in northeastern Mead Township, along the Ohio River.

Name and history

Mead is the name of the mother of Col. David Lockwood, Revolutionary War veteran and pioneer settler.

It is the only Mead Township statewide.

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.

References

^ "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.
"Mead township, Belmont County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
McKelvey, A. T. (1903). Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens. Biographical Publishing Company. pp. 298.
"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 April 30, 2009.

External links

County website

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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