Additional areas include the Census-designated place of Orient, located in the northwest, the Unincorporated Communities of Robtown in the southwest, and Southern Point in the northeast corner.

The township was boarded to the east by the Scioto River and to the west and south by Darby Creek.

Early settlers came from primarily Pennsylvania and Virginia beginning in 1800, with Thomas and John Thompson, both of whom were soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.

The towns combined when the Village was incorporated in on March 21, 1851, with Genoa being the western half and Rome being the eastern.

[5] 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.