Salt Creek Township, Holmes County, Ohio

Salt Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Holmes County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 4,685.

Salt Creek Township, Holmes County, Ohio
Township
The Joseph Armstrong Farmhouse, a historic site in the township
Location of Salt Creek Township in Holmes County
Coordinates: 40°38′12″N 81°49′37″W
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Holmes
Area
• Total	29.9 sq mi (77.4 km2)
• Land	29.8 sq mi (77.3 km2)
• Water	0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation [1]	1,099 ft (335 m)
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	4,685
• Density	160/sq mi (61/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	44660
Area code	330
FIPS code	39-70156[3]
GNIS feature ID	1086338[1]

Geography

Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:

• Salt Creek Township, Wayne County - north
• Paint Township, Wayne County - northeast corner
• Paint Township - east
• Walnut Creek Township - southeast corner
• Berlin Township - south
• Hardy Township - southwest
• Prairie Township - west
• Franklin Township, Wayne County - northwest corner

No municipalities are located in Salt Creek Township, although the census-designated place of Mount Hope lies in the eastern part of the township.

Name and history

It is one of five Salt Creek Townships statewide.^[4]

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,^[5] 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.