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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Colebrook Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio
|settlement_type = [[Civil township|Township]]
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|image_skyline = Colebrook Town Hall.jpg
|imagesize = 250px
|image_caption = Town hall at Colebrook Center
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|image_map = Map of Ashtabula County Ohio Highlighting Colebrook Township.png
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|map_caption = Location of Colebrook Township in Ashtabula County
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|subdivision_name = United States
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|subdivision_name1 = [[Ohio]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Ohio|County]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Ashtabula County, Ohio|Ashtabula]]
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|area_total_km2 = 63.8
|area_land_km2 = 63.5
|area_water_km2 = 0.3
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|population_as_of = [[2020 United States Census|2020]]
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|population_total = 1115
|population_density_km2 = 15.7
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|timezone = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
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'''Colebrook Township''' is one of the twenty-seven [[civil township|townships]] of [[Ashtabula County, Ohio|Ashtabula County]], [[Ohio]], United States. The [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]] found 1,115 people in the township.<ref>{{cite web |title=Colebrook township, Ashtabula County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Colebrook_township;_Ashtabula_County;_Ohio?g=060XX00US3900716560 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=15 May 2023}}</ref>
==Geography==
Located on the southern edge of the county, it borders the following townships:
*[[New Lyme Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|New Lyme Township]] - north
*[[Cherry Valley Township, Ohio|Cherry Valley Township]] - northeast corner
*[[Wayne Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Wayne Township]] - east
*[[Gustavus Township, Trumbull County, Ohio|Gustavus Township, Trumbull County]] - southeast corner
*[[Greene Township, Trumbull County, Ohio|Greene Township, Trumbull County]] - south
*[[Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio|Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County]] - southwest corner
*[[Orwell Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Orwell Township]] - west
*[[Rome Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Rome Township]] - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Colebrook Township.
==Name and history==
It is the only Colebrook Township statewide.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Detailed map of Ohio| work = | publisher = [[United States Census Bureau]]| year = 2000| url = http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/general_ref/cousub_outline/cen2k_pgsz/oh_cosub.pdf| format = PDF| accessdate =2007-02-16}}</ref>
The first settler in the township was Joel Blakeslee, who arrived from [[New York (state)|New York]] in 1819.<ref name="Ashtabula County, Ohio">[http://www2.ashtabula.com/detail.asp?id=2194 Ashtabula County, Ohio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006081016/http://www2.ashtabula.com/detail.asp?id=2194 |date=2007-10-06 }} Ashtabula County, 2007. Accessed 2007-05-28.</ref>
==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,<ref>[http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/503.24 §503.24], [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/505.01 §505.01], and [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/507.01 §507.01] of the [[Ohio Revised Code]]. Accessed 4/30/2009.</ref> 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. Currently, the board is composed of chairman James Vins, Jr. and members Ron Chutas and Joseph Yuhasz.<ref name="Ashtabula County, Ohio"/>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.co.ashtabula.oh.us County website]
{{Ashtabula County, Ohio}}
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[[Category:Townships in Ashtabula County, Ohio]]
[[Category:Townships in Ohio]]
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