High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Morris Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Knox County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,998 people in the township. Small parts of two municipalities are located in Morris Township: the city of Mount Vernon, the county seat of Knox County, in the southeast; and the village of Fredericktown, in the northwest. It is the only Morris Township statewide.