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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Milford Township, Knox County Ohio
|settlement_type = [[Civil township|Township]]
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|image_caption = Agricultural scene south of Mount Liberty
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|map_caption = Location of Milford Township in Knox County.
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|subdivision_name2 = [[Knox County, Ohio|Knox]]
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|area_total_km2 = 66.6
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|area_water_km2 = 0.1
|area_total_sq_mi = 25.7
|area_land_sq_mi = 25.7
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|population_as_of = [[United States Census, 2020|2020]]
|population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |title=Milford township, Knox County, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Milford_township,_Knox_County,_Ohio?g=060XX00US3908350204 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=13 July 2023}}</ref>
|population_total = 1866
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|timezone = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
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'''Milford Township''' is one of the twenty-two [[civil township|townships]] of [[Knox County, Ohio|Knox County]], [[Ohio]], United States. The [[United States Census, 2020|2020 census]] found 1,866 people in the township.
==Geography==
Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
*[[Liberty Township, Knox County, Ohio|Liberty Township]] - north
*[[Clinton Township, Knox County, Ohio|Clinton Township]] - northeast corner
*[[Miller Township, Knox County, Ohio|Miller Township]] - east
*[[Burlington Township, Ohio|Burlington Township, Licking County]] - southeast corner
*[[Bennington Township, Licking County, Ohio|Bennington Township, Licking County]] - south
*[[Hartford Township, Licking County, Ohio|Hartford Township, Licking County]] - southwest corner
*[[Hilliar Township, Knox County, Ohio|Hilliar Township]] - west
*[[South Bloomfield Township, Morrow County, Ohio|South Bloomfield Township, Morrow County]] - northwest corner
No municipalities are located in Milford Township, although the [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] of [[Mt. Liberty, Ohio|Mt. Liberty]] lies on the northwestern border with Liberty Township.
==Name and history==
Milford Township was named after [[New Milford, Connecticut]], by a settler who hailed from there.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DBAtAAAAYAAJ_2 | title=History of Knox County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio | publisher=A. A. Graham & Company | author=Graham, Albert Adams | year=1881 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DBAtAAAAYAAJ_2/page/n549 513]}}</ref>
Statewide, other Milford Townships are located in [[Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio|Butler]] and [[Milford Township, Defiance County, Ohio|Defiance]] 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,<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.
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.co.knox.oh.us/ County website]
{{Knox County, Ohio}}
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[[Category:Townships in Knox County, Ohio]]
[[Category:Townships in Ohio]]
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