Official Name: | Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Ohio |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Franklin |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 112.9 |
Area Land Km2: | 111.3 |
Area Water Km2: | 1.6 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 6757 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 277 |
Elevation Ft: | 909 |
Coordinates: | 39.8461°N -83.18°W |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 39-63254[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1086112 |
Pleasant Township is one of the seventeen townships of Franklin County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,757.
Located in the southwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
Parts of two municipalities are located in Pleasant Township: the city of Columbus, the county seat of Franklin County, in the northeast; and the village of Harrisburg, in the south. The unincorporated communities of Darbydale and Georgesville lie in the township's south and west, respectively.
It is one of fifteen Pleasant Townships statewide.[3]
In 1833, a gristmill and a saw mill operated on Little Darby Creek in the northern part of Pleasant Township.[4]
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.