Chester Township, Wayne County

Chester Township, Wayne County

Township · Wayne County · 3,043 residents

Wayne County

The story

Local history for this place is being researched county by county outward from Franklin County; here is what the records say.

Water

Mostly private wells The water here

Wooster City75% of residentsKillbuck Creek Buried Valley Aquifer (own wells)
Rural Lorain Co. Water A13% of residentsMostly Lake Erie (bought from Avon Lake); some New London Reservoir and Ashland wells
West Salem Village10% of residentsGroundwater wells (4 wells)
Spruce Tree Village MHP1% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Green Meadows Estates0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Jeromesville Village0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Wooster Rolling Wheels Estates MHP0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)

Its ZIP codes

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

The ZIP codes serving Chester Township, Wayne County
ZIP	Share	Water	Radon	Home value	Schools	Flood
44287 Jackson Township and West Salem	11%	Mostly private wells	4.1 pCi/L average radon	Parcel list only	Northwestern Local · 3.5 stars overall	1.0% of residents in the 1% floodplain
44214 Canaan Township and Burbank	10%	Mostly private wells	5.1 pCi/L average radon	Parcel list only	North Central Local · 4.5 stars overall	7.6% of residents in the 1% floodplain
44691 Wooster	4%	North Wellfield, a group of city groundwater wells in the buried glacial valley of Killbuck Creek north of the Wooster Water Treatment Plant; raw water is piped to the plant on Old Columbus Rd for lime-soda-ash softening and chlorination	7.3 pCi/L average radon	Parcel list only	Wooster City · 4 stars overall	1.8% of residents in the 1% floodplain
44840 Mohican Township and Jeromesville	1%	Mostly private wells	6.7 pCi/L average radon	Median year built 1982	Hillsdale Local · 4 stars overall	3.4% of residents in the 1% floodplain

The county

Wayne County: 15 ZIP codes, 33 cities, villages and townships, 124,210 people.

Nearby places

Wooster Congress Township, Wayne County Jackson Township, Ashland County Wooster Township, Wayne County Wayne Township, Wayne County West Salem Franklin Township, Wayne County Plain Township, Wayne County Canaan Township, Wayne County Harrisville Township, Medina County

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