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Burlington is located in southern Lawrence County. [2]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2), all land.. According to Census 2000: Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places, Cartographic Boundary Files - Ohio, the southern boundary of the Burlington CDP ends at the current Ohio River northern shoreline, the northern boundary is ...
Burlington was laid out in 1839. [2] A post office was moved from nearby Elmira to Burlington about 1850 but the name of the post office was not changed. [3] The "Elmira" post office closed in 1957. [4]
Burlington Township, Ohio. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Burlington Township is one of the 25 townships of Licking County, Ohio, ...
The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. The zoning ordinance of Euclid, Ohio was challenged in court by a local land owner on the basis that restricting use of property violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Ambler ...
Ohio is divided into 88 counties. [1] Ohio law defines a structure for county government, although they may adopt charters for home rule. [1] [2] The minimum population requirement for incorporation is 1,600 for a village and 5,000 for a city. [3] Unless a county has adopted a charter, it has a structure that includes the following elected ...
An urban township is a designation of a unit of local government in Ohio as prescribed by chapter 504 of the Ohio Revised Code. Chapter 504 outlines the procedures for an Ohio civil township to adopt limited home rule government. At least 2,500 people are required to reside in unincorporated areas of a township for that township to adopt ...
The 1926 revised second printing noted that 19 states had passed enabling acts modeled on the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act. [1]The American Planning Association wrote that the SZEA and the Standard City Planning Enabling Act of 1927 "laid the basic foundation for land development controls in the U.S." [5]
There are currently 253 cities and 673 villages in Ohio, for a total of 926 municipalities. Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville in Gallia County and a city of Centerville in Montgomery County ; there is also a city of Oakwood in Montgomery County as well as the villages of Oakwood in Cuyahoga County and Oakwood ...