Archer Township, Harrison County

Township · Harrison County · 327 residents

Harrison County

Local events in Archer Township, Harrison County

Nothing is posted for Archer Township itself yet; here is what is on within 20 miles. All local events in Archer Township, Harrison County

  1. Victoria Read Bookclub

    3:30 to 4:30 p.m. · Victoria Read Public Library · Flushing · 12 mi · From Belmont County District Library

  2. Board of Education Meeting

    5 to 7 p.m. · 108 Woodrow Ave, St Clairsville, OH 43950, USA · Saint Clairsville · 17 mi · From St Clairsville-Richland City School District

  3. Knock, Knock! It's Christmas - A Musical Comedy Revue

    Starts 7 p.m. · Ohio University Eastern · Saint Clairsville · 17 mi · Free · From Ohio University

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How Archer Township, Harrison County began

Archer Township, in the north-central part of Harrison County, was established in 1799, predating Harrison County itself by fourteen years, and its earliest documented settler, Samuel Amspoker, arrived by 1803. Most early families came from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and what was then western Virginia. Ridge Church, the township's oldest religious organization, grew out of the Beech Spring Presbyterian congregation and moved through four building sites before settling near the village of Hanover. Archer contains no incorporated village today, and like neighboring Stock and Green Townships, it failed to raise its share of a nineteenth-century railroad subscription, a factor in the main line being routed through the county's northern townships instead.

Settled by 1803, incorporated 1799.

Where the name comes from

No origin for the name "Archer" is recorded.

Before the town

No Native American village, mound, or treaty boundary specific to Archer Township is documented; the land was included in the general Ohio cessions of the 1780s-1790s (Treaty of Fort McIntosh, 1785, and Treaty of Greenville, 1795) before organized American settlement began, and it lay within range of Mingo, Delaware (Lenape), and Shawnee hunting and travel along the Ohio River tributaries.

Nations recorded here: Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga), Delaware (Lenape), Shawnee.

Timeline

  1. — Archer Township is established, fourteen years before Harrison County itself was organized.
  2. — Samuel Amspoker settles in Archer Township, the earliest documented settler named in the county's 1900 history; other named arrivals before 1814 include John Welch (about 1801, from Pennsylvania), William Wartembe (1807, from Brooke County, (West) Va.), and Isaac Osburn (1809).
  3. — Edward Crawford settles in the township from Brooke County, now West Virginia; Alexander Crawford follows in 1808 and David Endsley in 1808.
  4. — Bazaleel Wells, the land's original patentee, deeds a portion of section 31 in the township's southeast to Morris West, an early settler whose family had already been living there for some years without formal title.
  5. — Archer Township takes its present boundary in March, when the county commissioners redraw the townships.
  6. 19th century — Ridge Church, the township's oldest religious organization and one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in Harrison County, is set off from the Beech Spring congregation; it occupies four successive sites, from the house of early settler William Barnhill to its present building near the village of Hanover, and its history is later condensed from an anniversary discourse delivered by its pastor, Rev. Robert Herron, on December 13, 1873.
  7. — The census counts 737 people.
  8. — The Jewett oil pool is opened in the fall on A. M. Busby's land in section 35 of Archer Township; gas from the well is piped to Jewett until fall 1899.
  9. — The township has 700 people.
  10. — The township has 567 people.
  11. — The township has 498 people and no village; two railroad lines touch its corners, the Pennsylvania in the southeast and the Wheeling & Lake Erie in the northeast.
  12. — The census counts 327 people.

Stories

The Busby well

The Jewett oil pool, which touches Archer, Green and Rumley townships, was opened in the fall of 1895 on land owned by A. M. Busby in section 35 of Archer Township. Gas from the well was piped to Jewett and burned there until the fall of 1899, when the supply was abandoned. A local company, the Jewett Oil & Gas Company, handled the property until 1896, when it was transferred to the Ohio Oil Company, which drilled further wells. By July 1901 there were seventy-five producers in the pool, eight of them gas wells, worked by the Ohio Oil Company, the Scott Oil Company and F. N. Donaldson. The oil went to Jewett, Cadiz and Scio. The success at Jewett encouraged H. A. Snyder to start leasing at Scio, where the much larger boom of 1898 followed.

Local history sources: archive.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · archive.org · en.wikipedia.org

Water

Mostly private wells The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Archer Township, Harrison County's boundary: 44 shale and injection wells, 1 Toxics Release Inventory facility and 3 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Shale and injection wells (44)

  1. Able Arc Hr 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211960000
    Coordinates
    40.30054, -80.98815

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  2. Able Arc Hr 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212110000
    Coordinates
    40.30053, -80.98807

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  3. Able Arc Hr 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212130000
    Coordinates
    40.30051, -80.98799

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  4. Able Arc Hr 7HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212120000
    Coordinates
    40.30050, -80.98791

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  5. Buell 10-11-5 10HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067210670000
    Coordinates
    40.35054, -81.01948

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  6. Buell 10-11-5 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067213780000
    Coordinates
    40.35035, -81.01938

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  7. Buell 10-11-5 206HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215410000
    Coordinates
    40.35048, -81.01948

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  8. Buell 10-11-5 210HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215420000
    Coordinates
    40.35059, -81.01948

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  9. Buell 10-11-5 2HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067213790000
    Coordinates
    40.35037, -81.01947

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  10. Buell 10-11-5 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067213800000
    Coordinates
    40.35040, -81.01939

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  11. Buell 10-11-5 4HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067213810000
    Coordinates
    40.35046, -81.01939

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  12. Buell 10-11-5 6HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215400000
    Coordinates
    40.35043, -81.01948

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  13. Davis Trust 19-11-5 10HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216470000
    Coordinates
    40.30733, -81.05636

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  14. Davis Trust 19-11-5 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215590000
    Coordinates
    40.30744, -81.05649

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  15. Davis Trust 19-11-5 201HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215580000
    Coordinates
    40.30750, -81.05651

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  16. Davis Trust 19-11-5 206HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216480000
    Coordinates
    40.30749, -81.05642

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  17. Davis Trust 19-11-5 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215600000
    Coordinates
    40.30739, -81.05647

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  18. Davis Trust 19-11-5 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215610000
    Coordinates
    40.30734, -81.05645

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  19. Davis Trust 19-11-5 6HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216450000
    Coordinates
    40.30744, -81.05640

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  20. Davis Trust 19-11-5 8HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216460000
    Coordinates
    40.30738, -81.05638

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  21. Helen Halter 23-11-5 10H (8)Horizontal shale well
    What it is
    Horizontal shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212010000
    Coordinates
    40.35988, -81.05949

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  22. Helen Halter 23-11-5 1H (3)Utica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212020000
    Coordinates
    40.35988, -81.05963

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  23. Helen Halter 23-11-5 205HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067213240000
    Coordinates
    40.35998, -81.05946

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  24. Helen Halter 23-11-5 210HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067213250000
    Coordinates
    40.35991, -81.05943

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  25. Helen Halter 23-11-5 3H (5)Utica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212030000
    Coordinates
    40.35992, -81.05957

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  26. Helen Halter 23-11-5 5H (10H)Utica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212040000
    Coordinates
    40.35995, -81.05952

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  27. Helen Halter 23-11-5 6H (1)Utica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212050000
    Coordinates
    40.35981, -81.05961

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  28. Helen Halter 23-11-5 8H (6H)Utica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067212060000
    Coordinates
    40.35984, -81.05955

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  29. Hochstetler 7-11-5 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216320000
    Coordinates
    40.30944, -81.02575

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  30. Hochstetler 7-11-5 201HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216710000
    Coordinates
    40.30939, -81.02578

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  31. Hochstetler 7-11-5 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216330000
    Coordinates
    40.30950, -81.02572

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  32. Hochstetler 7-11-5 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067216340000
    Coordinates
    40.30955, -81.02569

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  33. Nm Harrison 16-11-5 10HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211330000
    Coordinates
    40.35070, -81.04110

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  34. Nm Harrison 16-11-5 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211340000
    Coordinates
    40.35065, -81.04129

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  35. Nm Harrison 16-11-5 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211290000
    Coordinates
    40.35069, -81.04124

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  36. Nm Harrison 16-11-5 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211310000
    Coordinates
    40.35073, -81.04118

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  37. Nm Harrison 16-11-5 6HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211300000
    Coordinates
    40.35062, -81.04120

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  38. Nm Harrison 16-11-5 8HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067211320000
    Coordinates
    40.35066, -81.04115

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  39. North American Coal Royalty Co Buell 8HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067210570100
    Coordinates
    40.35052, -81.01939

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  40. Sadie 33-10-4 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215070000
    Coordinates
    40.33241, -80.97853

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  41. Sadie 33-10-4 201HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215080000
    Coordinates
    40.33242, -80.97860

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  42. Sadie 33-10-4 205HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215050000
    Coordinates
    40.33239, -80.97832

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  43. Sadie 33-10-4 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215030000
    Coordinates
    40.33240, -80.97846

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  44. Sadie 33-10-4 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Eog Ohio, Llc
    County
    Harrison County
    API well number
    34067215040000
    Coordinates
    40.33240, -80.97839

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

Source: ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources well inventory (September 2026): drilled Utica, Marcellus and horizontal wells and Class II injection wells not plugged. Older vertical wells are on the full map.

Facilities reporting toxic releases (1)

  1. Hopedale Mining - Cadiz PortalToxics Release Inventory · Cadiz
    Address
    44691 Old Hopedale Rd., Cadiz, OH 43907
    County
    Harrison County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    43907HRRSN44691
    EPA registry ID
    110000384833

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Toxics Release Inventory reporters. Reporting a release is required of large users of listed chemicals; it is not by itself a violation.

Spills reported since 2021 (3)

  1. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road) Reached water2022-04-15 · Archer Twp
    Reported
    2022-04-15
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    7 gallons
    Reached a waterway
    99 - Unnamed
    Where
    Archer Twp, Harrison County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2204EPA0000517
  2. Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle2021-05-23 · Archer Twp
    Reported
    2021-05-23
    What spilled
    Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
    Largest amount reported
    250 gallons
    Where
    Archer Twp, Harrison County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2105EPA0000721
  3. Material Brown2026-07-05 · Middleton Twp
    Reported
    2026-07-05
    What spilled
    Material Brown
    Largest amount reported
    1,000 gallons
    Where
    Middleton Twp, Columbiana County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2607EPA0001209

Source: Ohio EPA emergency response spill reports, 2021 to September 2026, one point per case where Ohio EPA placed it. A report is what the caller or responder recorded; amounts are often blank or estimated.

Its ZIP codes

Each ZIP code that touches Archer Township, Harrison County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

Local government

Who holds office in Archer Township, Harrison County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2023-11-07 Township Trustee Matthew S. Dulkoski 93, 100.0%
2023-11-07 Township Fiscal Officer Renea Riesen 80, 100.0%
2022-11-08 Township Fiscal Officer Renea A. Riesen 90, 100.0%
2021-11-02 . Trustee (unofficial count) James Edward Albright 35, 28.23%; Troy Blackburn 45, 36.29%; Aaron L. Dodds 44, 35.48%
2019-11-05 Township Fiscal Officer Write-In: Robert J. Positano 4, 100.0%
2019-11-05 . Trustee Matthew Scott Dulkoski 59, 100.0%
2017-11-07 Trustees James E. Albright 50, 46.73%; Aaron L. Dodds 57, 53.27%
2015-11-03 Township Trustee Larry Howell 103, 100.0%
2015-11-03 Township Fiscal Officer Robert Positano 100, 100.0%

Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.

Auditor of State record

Quick answers

What county is Archer Township, Ohio in?

Archer Township, Harrison County is a township in Harrison County, Ohio, with 327 residents.

When was Archer Township, Ohio founded?

Archer Township, Harrison County was settled by 1803; incorporated 1799. Source

How did Archer Township, Ohio get its name?

No origin for the name "Archer" is recorded. Source

What ZIP code is Archer Township, Ohio?

Archer Township, Harrison County is served by ZIP codes 43986 and 43907; 43986 holds the largest share of its residents.

Where does Archer Township, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Archer Township, Harrison County (Cadiz Village): Mostly private wells.

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