
Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.Allegheny County | Allegheny County | Ashland | Athens Township | Atwater Township | Auburn Township | Austintown Township | Bath Township | Bedford Township | Belmont |.

There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it.

The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. It was named Fayette, in honor of Marquis Lafayette, who was a popular hero of that time and who visited Burlington in 1826. It is the only Fayette Township statewide. Most of the rest of the shoreline is occupied by the census-designated place of Burlington. Part of South Point, the second-largest municipality in Lawrence County, is located along the downstream shoreline of Fayette Township. It is located in the middle of Lawrence County's Ohio River townships. West Virginia lies across the Ohio River to the south: Cabell County in the far southeast, and Wayne County otherwise. Located in the far southern part of the county along the Ohio River, it borders the following townships: Fayette Township includes Ohio's most southerly point. As of the 2020 census the population was 8,494. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: 1086441įayette Township is one of the fourteen townships of Lawrence County, Ohio, United States.
