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Washington Township is one of the seventeen townships of Franklin County, Ohio, United States. It also includes portions of Delaware County and Union County within the city of Dublin. In 2017, the US Census Bureau estimated that the population was 49,210, of whom 998 lived in the unincorporated areas of the township.

In 1991, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that municipalities may alter the township boundaries within the municipality to include the entire territory of the municipality in a single township, even if the municipality includes parts of more than one county.

As of the 2010 census the population was 1,549, of whom 983 lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.

Geography
Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships and cities:
 * Dublin - northeast
 * Hilliard - southeast
 * Brown Township - southwest, east of Canaan Township
 * Canaan Township, Madison County - southwest, west of Brown Township
 * Darby Township, Madison County - west
 * Jerome Township, Union County - northwest

Portions of the original area of the township have been annexed by Columbus and removed to the paper township created by Columbus.

Much of eastern Washington Township is occupied by the city of Dublin, and the city of Hilliard includes a small part of southern Washington Township. As well, the unincorporated community of Amlin lies in the southwestern part of the township.

Name and history
It is one of forty-three Washington Townships statewide.

Government
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. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. 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. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

Education
Some areas of this township are in the Hilliard City School District.

Others are part of Dublin City Schools.