Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio

Township in Ohio, United States

41°40′28″N 81°3′27″W / 41.67444°N 81.05750°W / 41.67444; -81.05750CountryUnited StatesStateOhioCountyGeaugaArea

• Total25.7 sq mi (66.5 km²) • Land25.5 sq mi (66.1 km²) • Water0.1 sq mi (0.3 km²)Elevation

^[1]

1,250 ft (381 m)Population

(2020)

• Total2,144 • Density89/sq mi (34.3/km²)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code

44086

Area code440FIPS code39-76628^[2]GNIS feature ID1086161^[1]Websitethompsonohio.org

Thompson Township is one of the sixteen townships of Geauga County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,144.^[3]

Geography

Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:

Madison Township, Lake County – north
Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County – northeast corner
Trumbull Township, Ashtabula County – east
Hartsgrove Township, Ashtabula County – southeast corner
Montville Township – south
Hambden Township – southwest corner
LeRoy Township, Lake County – west

No municipalities are located in Thompson Township. The township contains the unincorporated community of Thompson.

Thompson Township is the location of the Thompson Ledges landform.^[4]^[5]

Name and history

Statewide, other Thompson Townships are located in Delaware and Seneca 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,^[6] 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.

Communications

Thompson Township is the site of WKSV 89.1 FM, a repeater transmitter for the WKSU public radio station based in Kent. Thompson is also the site of W34FP-D’s transmitter, for WVIZ; a PBS member station in Cleveland, Ohio.

Notable people

Charles Martin Hall inventor of the modern process of aluminum production and founder of Alcoa.

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.
^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Thompson township, Geauga County, Ohio". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved January 13, 2017.^{[dead link]}
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: The Ledges ("Thompson Ledges" listed as variant name)
^ "Marker #6-28 Thompson Ledges / Thompson Ledges Park". Remarkable Ohio: Marking Ohio's History. Ohio Historical Society. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
^ §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. Accessed 4/30/2009.