Addison Township, Ohio

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Addison Township is one of fifteen townships in Gallia County, Ohio. As of 2020, about 2,160 people live there. The township sits in the northeastern part of Gallia County and is bordered to the east by Mason County, West Virginia across the Ohio River. It lies upstream of four of Gallia County’s other Ohio River townships. There are no towns inside Addison Township, but the community of Kanauga is in the southeast corner. Addison Township is the only Addison Township in Ohio.

Local government is run by a three-member board of trustees. They are elected in November of odd-numbered years to four-year terms that start on January 1. Two trustees are elected in the year after a presidential election, and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer with a four-year term starting April 1 after the election held in November before the presidential election. If a vacancy happens, the remaining trustees fill it.