has gloss | eng: Milford Township, one of thirteen townships in the county, is located in north-central Butler County, Ohio, United States, between Oxford and Middletown. The township, which contains the village of Somerville, had a population of 3,254 in 2000, up from 2,651 in 1990. Excluding Somerville, 2,960 live in the unincorporated part of the township. It comprises one entire survey township in the Congress Lands and has an area of thirty-six square miles. The township was named by Robert Lytle, the township justice of the peace and County Judge who was the great-grandfather of a famous Milford Township native, Governor Andrew L. Harris. Statewide, other Milford Townships are located in Defiance and Knox Counties. |