Beavercreek Township is governed by three board of Trustees who are elected every four years in November. Two board members are elected before a presidential election. The third trustee and fiscal officer are elected the year after it.

Members of the Board of Trustees' term begin on January 1 after their election. The fiscal officer's term begins on April 1 of the year after their election.

Vacancies for any Beavercreek Township public official position are filled by the remaining trustees. Please review §503.24, §505.01, and §507.01 of the Ohio Revised Code for more information.

The elected officials for Beavercreek Township are:

Trustee Carol Graff
cgraff@beavercreektownship.org
Term: 2009-2013

Trustee Bob Glaser
bglaser@beavercreektownship.org
Term:2009-2013

Trustee Dan Paxson
dkpaxson@beavercreektownship.org
Term:2012-2016

Fiscal Officer Christy Ahrens
cahrens@beavercreektownship.org
Term: 2012-2016

Elected officials meet publicly every two weeks. Please view the Calendar for the next scheduled meeting. For more information about Beavercreek Township Elected Officials, please contact Township Administration at (937) 429-4472.

Township Administration is located at:

1981 Dayton Xenia Road
Beavercreek, Ohio 45434

Office hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, except holidays. Please contact Township Administration for more information at (937) 429-4472.

Beavercreek Township staff work to maintain the daily operations of the Township, including accounting and payroll.

Assistant to the Fiscal Officer
James V. Barone

Accounts Payable/Payroll Technician
Deb White

The Beavercreek Township Administration office is located at:

1981 Dayton Xenia Road
Beavercreek, Ohio 45434

Office hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, except holidays. Please contact Township Administration for more information at (937) 429-4472.

Beavercreek Township's part-time Township Administrator is Alex Zaharieff. Alex lives in Beavercreek and is a graduate of Carroll High School. He earned his undergraduate in political science in 1994 and his Masters in Public Administration from Wright State University in 2004. Alex commits 20-30 hours a week to Beavercreek Township as the Township Administrator.

In addition to his Township responsibilities, Alex works fulltime for Xenia Fire Division. He also manages Zaharieff Consultants, a public sector consulting company providing services for grant writing, public safety training and emergency planning. Alex's depth of knowledge in both private and public sector affairs is a great benefit to Beavercreek Township.

The Township Administrator can be contacted at:

Alex Zaharieff
Township Administrator
Beavercreek Township
ta@beavercreektownship.org
(937) 429-4472 x221

History of Beavercreek Township
by Frank B. Zink
(Taken from Robinson’s 1961 Rural Directory)

Beavercreek Township is one of the original four townships in this section of the state. It extended as far north as Lake Erie. It is a beautiful valley, fertile, well timbered, rolling and picturesque. It is noted for its fine farms. The high ridge separating Beaver Creek and Mad River is a particularly fine fruit section.

The Pennsylvania and CH & D Railroads and the Dayton and Xenia Traction ran from west to east across the township. The Dayton and Xenia Turnpike was first built from Dayton to Alpha about 1858 and was later completed to Xenia, this affording the chief means of communication with market between these cities. This was built by a joint stock company and kept up in repair by collections made in the common way at the tollgate. Good roads extended throughout the township.

Beavercreek Township is the cradle of Greene County, for it was the little log cabin built by Benjamin Whiteman, occupied by Peter Borders, a short distance south of the log mill of Owen Davis erected in 1798 on Beavercreek that the first meeting of the associate judges of Greene County met May 10, 1803. It was at this first meeting of the judges that the county was laid out by the order of the court and their boundaries designated.

In Beavercreek was the first mill north of Cincinnati where corn was ground for the settlers. It was called the Alpha Mill from the first letter of the Greek alphabet. The courthouse, mill and two block houses built for defense were near enough together to be inclosed in a stockade should the Indians become troublesome. The old log courthouse was the first licensed tavern in the county. It was located on what is now the A. Z. Heller home a short distance south of Alpha.

William Maxwell, first printer and publisher in the Northwest Territory lived near Trebein and is believed to be buried about a mile southwest of Trebein on a knoll just back of his cabin.

Mr. John Harbine and Mr. Needles laid out the town of Alpha in 1854. When what is now the Pennsylvania railroad was built, Mr. Harbine gave land required and the station was named Harbine. It was a lively manufacturing center with its distillery, flour, cotton, woolen, grist, saw and oil mills, and did a large tobacco, grain, and shipping business to all parts of the country. From the first mill and the first barrel of flour which was marked "Alpha" the name has clung to the place. There are in the town a nice brick church, a school, a post office, coal office, two stores and at upper Alpha a K of P Hall, a blacksmith shop and Beavercreek Township High School built in 1888. The waters of Beaver Creek have turned the wheels of grist mills for more than a century, and the old dam and old covered bridge torn down recently is an attractive place for picnics, fishing and swimming parties, but the block houses, mills, and store houses are no longer to be seen and the valley is peaceful, productive and beautiful.

Trebein formerly known as Pinkneyville, Frost Station and Beaver Station is two miles nearer Xenia. Pinkney Road running from Cincinnati through Bellbrook, through Trebein, through Oldtown and into Xenia was a very busy thoroughfare in the 1800’s, bringing supplies to and from Cincinnati.

Zimmerman about two miles west of Alpha on the Old Dayton and Xenia Pike had a blacksmith shop, grocery, school house and two Dunkard Churches. The railroad station is a quarter of a mile south of Zimmerman and is named Shoups Station.

New Germany in the northwest corner of the township was a settlement of farmers of German extraction. It has two blacksmith shops, two grocery stores, dry goods store, a saloon, a school house and an Old Stage Coach Inn. The main thoroughfare running from Cincinnati through Dayton, Fairfield, Springfield and Columbus, passed through New Germany using the Old Stage Coach Inn as a stopping place. New Germany had a band organized in 1896, which played at political rallies, lawn fetes, picnics and many other places where they were in demand.

The first school in Beavercreek Township was a log structure on the Jacob Coy farm on Shakertown Road. Later Beavercreek had eleven one room elementary schools and two, two room schools and a High School. In 1932 Beavercreek consolidated their schools into one fine school now known as Beavercreek Main.

Beavercreek in the last few years is fast growing from rural to urban life. Many of the rich farm lands have developed into fine residential areas.

The Greene County Sheriff's Office patrols throughout Beavercreek Township. In 2006, Beavercreek Township signed an agreement providing space within Beavercreek Township Fire Department's Station 61 for use by the Greene County Sheriffs patrolling in western Greene County.

Called the Greene County Sheriffs Beavercreek Sub-Station, this post provides two office spaces for Sheriff Deputies to use. A network path (VPN) back to Greene County Sheriff Headquarters in Xenia allows their deputies to access software programs and databases in a secure manor used for daily operations. The Greene County Sheriff Beavercreek Sub-Station is located at:

Greene County Sheriff Beavercreek Sub-Station
Beavercreek Township Fire Department Station 61
2195 Dayton Xenia Road
Beavercreek, OH 45434

The sub-station is located on the southwest side of Station 61. Signs indicate an entrance area. To contact the Greene County Sheriffs' Beavercreek Sub-Station, please call (937) 306-5055. (After 4-6 rings, if the deputy is unavailable, this number will forward to Greene County dispatch center for message taking.)