The name was changed to Bath when it fully separated from Richfield Township in 1818.

[6] In 1998, Bath Township formed a Joint Economic Development District (JEDD) with Akron and Fairlawn.

The JEDD area comprises approximately 300 acres (120 hectares) and is in the business district at the southern end of the township.

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.

17.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.93% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The township is governed by a non-partisan 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.

In 2016, the board was composed of president Elaina Goodrich and members Becky Corbett and James Nelson, and the fiscal officer was Sharon Troike.

Interstate 271 passes through the township's northwest corner without providing access.

It contains grasslands, wetlands, ponds, streams, and mesophytic and riparian deciduous forests, which has through an agreement been used by The University of Akron as a research station.

Hale Farm and Village is a historic property of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, United States.