

and Susanna Congdon McIntyre Memorial Fund for roof repairs at the Orrville YMCA.

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. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. 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. The first settlers of the area that would become known as Jackson Township included Samuel Calhoun, Andrew Gault, William Orr, James Starnford, Samuel Riddle, and Joseph McInrue. In 1795, the first settlers in Mahoning County were John Young and Colonel James Hillman, who built a log cabin on the east bank of the Mahoning River in Youngstown. Īfter the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, settlers began purchasing and settling the area. It is one of thirty-seven Jackson Townships statewide. It was later named Jackson Township after Andrew Jackson. No municipalities are located in Jackson Township, although the unincorporated community of North Jackson lies at the center of the township.Īt first, the area of Jackson Township was called West Austintown and was first organized in 1815. Newton Township, Trumbull County - northwest corner.

Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County - northeast corner.Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships: The 2020 census found 2,124 people in the township. Jackson Township is one of the fourteen townships of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States.
