Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Symmes Township is a township of Hamilton County, Ohio. As of 2002, the total population is 14,771. The township was named by John Cleves Symmes, who originally owned most of the county as a result of his land purchase, known as the Symmes Purchase. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.