Union Township, Carroll County, Ohio
Union Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 977. Geography. Located in the south central part of the county, it borders the following townships: No municipalities are located in Union Township. Name and history. It is one of twenty-seven Union Townships statewide. It was named Union because it was formed as a union from more than one previous townships. 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. Education. Students attend the Carrollton Exempted Village School District.