High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Franklin Township is one of the eighteen townships of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 766 people in the township, 658 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. It is one of twenty-one Franklin Townships statewide. 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.