High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Athens Township is one of the fourteen townships of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 27,714 people in the township, 6,680 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Most of the city of Athens, the county seat of Athens County, is located in central and eastern Athens Township, and the census-designated place of The Plains is located in northern Athens Township. Statewide, the only other Athens Township is located in Harrison County.