Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States is divided into 21 townships.
When Cuyahoga County was founded, it was divided into civil townships for purposes of rural government, as were other Ohio counties. By 1990, this county was the most urbanized county in Ohio,[1] and as a result, most of its townships have been annexed by the city of Cleveland or one of the other municipalities in Cuyahoga County. In Ohio, when the entirety of a civil township has been annexed by one or more municipalities, it ceases to have governmental powers and becomes a paper township, existing on maps, but possessing no governmental powers. Today, 19 of Cuyahoga County's townships are paper townships, with only a part of Olmsted Township and a tiny section of Chagrin Falls Township remaining as civil townships — just 10.5 square miles (27 km2) of Cuyahoga County's total area of 458 sq mi (1,190 km2).[2]
- ^ A Report on the Status of Ohio. Accessed 30 April 2007. [dead link]
- ^ Cuyahoga County Land Area and Population Density. Accessed 30 April 2007. Archived September 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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