Bath Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 9,635 people in the township, a suburb of Akron.
The township was originally known as Wheatfield when it was surveyed in 1808. The name was later changed to Hammondsburgh after Jason Hammond, who settled there in 1810. The name was changed to Bath when it fully separated from Richfield Township in 1818. The origin of the name Bath is obscure; it is said to have been so named for its brevity.
In 1998, Bath Township formed a Joint Economic Development District (JEDD) with Akron and Fairlawn. The JEDD area has approximately 300 acres (1.2 km2) and is in the business district at the southern end of the township.
Bath Township's land has been in the following counties:
Statewide, other Bath Townships are located in Allen and Greene counties.
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships and cities:
Richfield Township – north
Boston Township -– northeast
Cuyahoga Falls – east
Akron – southeast
Copley Township – south
Sharon Township, Medina County – southwest corner
Granger Township, Medina County – west
Hinckley Township, Medina County – northwest corner
Several populated places are located in Bath Township:
The census-designated place of Montrose-Ghent, occupying the remainder of the southern part of the township, composed of the unincorporated communities of Ghent (in the center of the township) and Montrose (on the southern border with Copley Township)
The unincorporated area of Hammond's Corners, in the north
Parts of the original Bath Township are now in Akron and Fairlawn.
It occupies most of survey Town 3, Range 12 in the Connecticut Western Reserve and is about 23 square miles (60 km2) in area.
Bath Township contains part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, whose main attraction within the township is the Hale Farm & Village, a historical community set in the 1800s.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,635 people, 3,506 households, and 2,814 families residing in the township.