Salem Township, Warren County, Ohio - Definition

Salem Township is one of eleven townships of Warren County, Ohio, located in the central part of the county. The 2000 census found 4,133 people in the township, up slightly from the 4,038 in 1990. It is the second smallest township in the county with 13,459 acres (54 km²).

It is bissected by the Little Miami River and is bounded on the west by Hamilton Township and Union Township; on the north by Turtlecreek Township and Washington Townships; on the south and east by Harlan, much of the boundary of Harlan being Todd's Fork.

Salem Township was established June 8, 1818 from Hamilton Township and originally consisted of the part of Salem south of the Little Miami and what is now Harlan Township. By a special act of the Ohio General Assembly of March 16, 1860, Harlan Township was separated from it and Salem was renamed Corwin Township. Later that year the Warren County Commissioners renamed the township Salem and took a portion of Union across the Little Miami and attached it to Salem, giving it 13,459 acres (54 km²). Salem Township is in both the Symmes Purchase and the Virginia Military District.

The village of Morrow lies entirely within the township. Most of the township is the Little Miami Local School District, but a part north of the Little Miami River is in the Lebanon City School District. Salem Township is within the Morrow, Lebanon, and Clarksville telephone exchanges and the Morrow post office's territory.