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Liberty Township, one of thirteen townships in Butler County, Ohio, United States, is in the east-central part of the county, just south of the city of Monroe. With an area of about it is smallest of the thirteen townships but one of the fastest growing areas in southwest Ohio, having a population of 37,259 at the 2010 census,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Liberty township, Butler County, Ohio )〕 up from 22,819 in 2000 and just 9,249 in 1990. It was named for Liberty, Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of John Morrow, a resident in the township at the time of its formation in 1803 who was the brother of Ohio Governor Jeremiah Morrow, after his hometown. The first settler was John Nelson, who arrived in 1796, seven years before Ohio became a state. It is one of 25 Liberty Townships statewide. The northeast corner of the township is part of the city of Monroe, the sole municipality in Liberty Township. Unincorporated places are Bethany, Four Bridges, Hughes Station, Kyles Station, Jericho, and Princeton. ==History and geography== One of the original five townships of the county, it was erected by the Butler County Court of Quarter Sessions on May 7, 1810, with these boundaries: :Beginning at the southeast corner of section No. 14 of the second township in the second entire range on the south boundary line of the county: thence north to the Great Miami; thence northeastwardly up the Miami to the northern boundar of fractional section No. 10 of the second township in the third of military range; thence east to the eastern boundary of the county; thence south with the eastern boundary of the county to the southeast corner thereof; thence west with the southern boundary of the county to the place of beginning. The original boundaries included what is now West Chester Township, which was separated from Liberty Township by the Butler County Commissioners on June 2, 1823. Today, the township is located in the eastern part of the county and borders the following townships: *Lemon Township - north *Turtlecreek Township, Warren County - northeast *Deerfield Township, Warren County - southeast *West Chester Township - south *Fairfield Township - west *Madison Township - northwest, across the Great Miami River 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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