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  "pwsid": "OH6401003",
  "name": "Shawnee, Village Of",
  "county": "Perry",
  "population": 605,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "groundwater",
  "label": "Hocking River Buried Valley Aquifer (wells)",
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "1872",
        "Railroad reached the site and investor T.J. Davis platted the town on the former Israel Gordon farm."
      ],
      [
        "1874",
        "Shawnee was incorporated as a village, at the start of a coal, clay, and oil boom."
      ],
      [
        "1890s-1900s",
        "Population peaked near 3,000-4,000 as Welsh, Irish, and Eastern European immigrant miners arrived; the 1890 census recorded 3,266 residents."
      ],
      [
        "1890-2020",
        "Population fell about 85%, from 3,266 to 505, as coal mining declined through the 20th century."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Shawnee has no wells or treatment plant of its own; it buys finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District (PWSID OH0501311). Burr Oak has operated since 1959, drawing on six groundwater wells that feed a single treatment plant with 4-million-gallon-per-day capacity, four booster…",
    "press": "Not published for Shawnee or Burr Oak Regional Water District in sources reviewed.",
    "rate": {
      "g": null,
      "n": "No rate schedule specific to Shawnee customers was found; Perry County's water/wastewater office handles billing but its site does not name Shawnee or list rates. Burr Oak…",
      "m": null
    },
    "imp": [],
    "proj": [],
    "plan": [],
    "stress": "Burr Oak Regional Water District's single 4-MGD groundwater plant supplies 17 satellite systems and 38,000+ people across four counties; this scale gives Shawnee a buffer against a local well failure, but also means a regional supply disruption would affect Shawnee along with many other communities. No specific contamination, drought, or…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "Not confirmed. Perry County's water/wastewater services are split into Northern and Southern Perry County Water & Wastewater divisions along a boundary at Sheridan Schools; Shawnee, south of county seat New Lexington, would likely fall in the southern district's territory, but Shawnee is not named on the county's water/wastewater page…",
      "st": "Not published in sources reviewed."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Shawnee was a genuine coal boomtown: it had roughly 4,000 residents around 1900 but only about 500-600 today, an over 85% population collapse.",
      "The Cincinnati Reds played a demonstration game in Shawnee in 1906, a sign of the village's regional prominence at its peak.",
      "Shawnee's 1881 Knights of Labor Opera House and 1907-08 Tecumseh Theater (restored starting 1976) reflect its early organized-labor and immigrant mining history.",
      "Shawnee today relies entirely on purchased water: it has no wells or treatment plant of its own, buying finished water from Burr Oak Regional Water District, which has served the region since 1959."
    ],
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        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawnee,_Perry_County,_Ohio"
      ],
      "treatment": [
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      ],
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        "http://www.burroakwater.org/services"
      ],
      "water_stress": [
        "http://www.burroakwater.org/about-us"
      ],
      "sewer": [
        "https://perrycountyohio.gov/services/water-and-wastewater/"
      ],
      "fun_facts": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawnee,_Perry_County,_Ohio"
      ]
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  "generated": "2026-09-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms",
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