Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
| Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio | |
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War Memorial at Route 193 and Warren-Sharon Road
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 Location of Vienna Township in Trumbull County |
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| Coordinates: 41°13′5″N 80°40′34″W / 41.21806°N 80.67611°WCoordinates: 41°13′5″N 80°40′34″W / 41.21806°N 80.67611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| County | Trumbull |
| Area | |
| • Total | 23.5 sq mi (60.8 km2) |
| • Land | 23.4 sq mi (60.6 km2) |
| • Water | 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,158 ft (353 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 4,021 |
| • Density | 172.0/sq mi (66.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 44473 |
| Area code(s) | 330 |
| FIPS code | 39-80052 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1087045 |
Vienna Township is one of the twenty-four townships of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 United States Census enumerated 3,823 people in the township.
Located in the southeastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Part of the city of Girard is located in southwestern Vienna Township. The census-designated place of Vienna Center is located in the center of the twenty-five-mile-square township.
Vienna Township is the only township so named in Ohio.
Vienna Township was established in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Under the direction of the Connecticut Land Company, this twenty-five-mile-square parcel, initially known as Township 4, Range 2, had been surveyed in 1798. The Township's original proprietors were Uriel Holmes, Jr., Ephraim Root, and Timothy Burr.
Three of the Connecticut Land Company surveyors, with their families, were among the first to settle in the Township in 1799. Dennis Clark Palmer (born 1775) was the first resident and would become the Township's first clerk in 1806. Fellow surveyor Samuel Hutchins, who was raised by Uriel Holmes, Jr., received 100 acres for his work. Isaac Flower, another surveyor, also owned 100 acres. Proprietor Ephraim Root visited Vienna in 1800, when he named Titus Brockway as his agent for land sales in the Township. In 1801, the resident heads of households in Vienna were “Isaac Flower, Isaac Flower, Jr., Levi Foote, James W. Foster, Samuel Hutchins, Daniel Humison [Humason], Dennis C. Palmer, Epenitus Rogers, Darius Woodford, Simon Wheeler, and Isaac Woodford."
The Connecticut Missionary Society sent to the Connecticut Western Reserve 148 trained ministers. The residents of Vienna Township were served by the reverends Joseph Badger, Thomas Robbins, and Nathan Bailey Derrow. In 1805, Robbins established Vienna's Presbyterian Church, one of the earliest churches in the state.
Connecticut surrendered its sovereignty of the Western Reserve in 1800, and the land was absorbed into the Northwest Territory and as part of Ohio when that state entered the Union in 1803. The legal status of the township was ultimately settled on March 12, 1806, when Vienna Township (including until 1811 Brookfield Township) was organized and recognized by the Trumbull County Commissioners. On April 7, 1806, the Township's first government was elected:
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