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Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio
Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio
Township
	Location of Thompson Township in Geauga County
	Coordinates: 41°40′28″N 81°3′27″W / 41.67444°N 81.05750°W
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Geauga
Area
• Total	25.7 sq mi (66.5 km2)
• Land	25.5 sq mi (66.1 km2)
• Water	0.1 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Elevation	1,250 ft (381 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	2,144
• Density	89/sq mi (34.3/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	44086
Area code	440
FIPS code	39-76628
GNIS feature ID	1086161
Website	thompsonohio.org

Thompson Township is one of the sixteen townships of Geauga County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,144.^[3]

Geography

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

Madison Township, Lake County – north
Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County – northeast corner
Trumbull Township, Ashtabula County – east
Hartsgrove Township, Ashtabula County – southeast corner
Montville Township – south
Hambden Township – southwest corner
LeRoy Township, Lake County – west

No municipalities are located in Thompson Township. The township contains the unincorporated community of Thompson.

Thompson Township is the location of the Thompson Ledges landform.^[4]^[5]

Name and history

Statewide, other Thompson Townships are located in Delaware and Seneca counties.

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,^[6] 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.

Communications

Thompson Township is the site of WKSV 89.1 FM, a repeater transmitter for the WKSU public radio station based in Kent. Thompson is also the site of W34FP-D’s transmitter, for WVIZ; a PBS member station in Cleveland, Ohio.