Rushcreek Township, Logan County, Ohio
township in Logan County, Ohio
Rushcreek Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,153.
Geography
Located in the northeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Taylor Creek Township, Hardin County - north
Bokes Creek Township - east
Perry Township - southeast
Jefferson Township - south
Lake Township - southwest
McArthur Township - west
Richland Township - northwest
The village of Rushsylvania is located in central Rushcreek Township.
Name and history
Rushcreek Township was organized in 1827. It is the only Rushcreek Township statewide, although there are Rush Townships in Champaign, Scioto, and Tuscarawas counties, and a Rush Creek Township in Fairfield County.
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.
Transportation
U.S. Route 68 is the most important highway in Rushcreek Township.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rushcreek Township, Logan County, Ohio” as township in Logan County, Ohio. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as township in Logan County, Ohio. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7380783. VIAF identifies the subject as 135172614. The Library of Congress control number is no96030374. Authority coordinates are 40.462, -83.670. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 1827.
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