Paint Township, Holmes County, Ohio

Paint Township is one of the fourteen townships of Holmes County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 4,564.

Paint Township, Holmes County, Ohio
Township
Shull-Lugenbuhl Farmhouse
Location of Paint Township in Holmes County
Coordinates: 40°37′41″N 81°42′55″W
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Holmes
Area
• Total	28.95 sq mi (74.98 km2)
• Land	28.88 sq mi (74.81 km2)
• Water	0.07 sq mi (0.17 km2)
Elevation [1]	1,293 ft (394 m)
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	4,564
• Density	160/sq mi (61/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code	39-59514[3]
GNIS feature ID	1086334[1]

According to the 2021 American Community Survey's 5-Year Estimates, 16.2% of the township's population spoke only English, while 83.8% spoke an "other [than Spanish] Indo-European language."^[4]

Geography

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

• Paint Township, Wayne County - north
• Sugar Creek Township, Stark County - northeast
• Wayne Township, Tuscarawas County - southeast
• Walnut Creek Township - south
• Berlin Township - southwest corner
• Salt Creek Township - west
• Salt Creek Township, Wayne County - northwest corner

It is the only township in the county to border Stark County.

No municipalities are located in Paint Township, although the census-designated place of Winesburg lies in the southwestern part of the township.

Name and history

Paint Township most likely was named for a local spring where the water was imparted with a reddish hue.^[5] It is one of six Paint Townships statewide.^[6]

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,^[7] 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.