Local events in Coventry Township, Summit County
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How Coventry Township, Summit County began
Coventry Township, laid out within the Connecticut Western Reserve as Township 1 North, Range 11 West, was organized in 1808 as part of Springfield Township, itself then part of Trumbull County; its first settler was Daniel Haines ('Uncle Dan'), a Pennsylvanian who built the township's first cabin in 1806 near the northeast corner, with Ariel Bradley at Mogadore, Joseph Darrow at Darrow Street, and Deacon Hudson at Hudson as his only neighbors for a year or two. Capt. Amos Spicer settled nearby around 1810-11, and Jesse Allen bought out Haines's original claim in 1811, the same year his half-brother Nathaniel Allen and wife 'Aunt Massey' arrived and planted the township's first orchard. It is the only Coventry Township in Ohio. The township's southern reaches take in part of the Portage Lakes, a chain of natural and canal-feeder lakes that today draw recreational boating and fishing to the area.
Settled 1806 (Daniel Haines, per the 1881 county history), incorporated organized 1808, initially as part of Springfield Township (then Trumbull County); became part of Summit County in 1840.
Where the name comes from
No source consulted gives a documented naming account for Coventry Township beyond the name itself; it is the only Coventry Township in Ohio.
Before the town
The 1881 county history gives Coventry a more specific Native record than most townships, though its romantic style and some claims should be read with caution. It says Delaware (Lenape, or Lenni Lenape) people, driven from the Susquehanna by the Iroquois, lived by the lakes and streams here, with the Iroquois to the east and Ottawa and Wyandot hunting grounds to the north and west. Hopocan (Captain Pipe), a Delaware chief, is placed at a village near New Portage, at the head of navigation on the Tuscarawas, which in 1787 was declared navigable and open for the United States. The Portage Path, the canoe-carrying trail between the Cuyahoga and the Tuscarawas, touched the east side of the township, and Long Lake and the other lakes fed the river so that birch canoes could reach New Portage in all seasons. The history says the 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh ceded the land east of the Tuscarawas, that Hopocan signed it as 'King of New Portage,' and that the 1805 Treaty of Fort Industry pushed the boundary west, with some Delawares remaining on sufferance for years. Libertine (Liberton) Dixon, a local Indian hunter, is mentioned in the same chapter. No mound or earthwork specific to Coventry is recorded.
Nations recorded here: Lenape (Delaware).
- New Portage village of Hopocan (Captain Pipe) (village) — near New Portage on the Tuscarawas River, Coventry Township, 1700s, until about 1785 per the 1881 history (archive.org)
- Portage Path eastern side (trail) — east side of Coventry Township, west of Summit Lake, long before 1800 (archive.org)
Timeline
- — By the Treaty of Fort McIntosh, as the 1881 county history tells it, the land east of the Tuscarawas and Cuyahoga, including Coventry, is ceded to the United States; Hopocan, called Captain Pipe, signs as 'King of New Portage' and moves his headquarters west of the river.
- — Seth Pease runs the Western Reserve's southern boundary, the forty-first parallel, which forms Coventry's southern line; Coventry is an 'equalizing township' parcelled out in strips, with Samuel Hinckley taking the southeast quarter.
- — The Treaty of Fort Industry moves the Indian boundary farther west; the area west of the Tuscarawas is added to Coventry when the survey is completed in 1806.
- — Daniel Haines ('Uncle Dan'), from Pennsylvania, builds the township's first log cabin near its northeast corner, on what becomes the Sumner farm; his only neighbors for a year or two are Ariel Bradley at Mogadore, Joseph Darrow at Darrow Street, and Deacon Hudson at Hudson.
- — Coventry Township organizes as part of Springfield Township, then part of Trumbull County.
- — Capt. Amos Spicer settles just north of the Haines place, in the township's northeast corner, around the same time as his cousin Maj. Minor Spicer nearby.
- — Jesse Allen buys out Daniel Haines's original claim and settles beside Capt. Spicer, becoming the township's first Justice of the Peace; his half-brother Nathaniel Allen arrives shortly after with wife 'Aunt Massey,' who plants the township's first orchard and later runs its first cider-mill.
- — Maj. Hart and others settle at Middlebury as the neighbourhood fills; Daniel Haines sells out and moves into the woods a mile and a half from the north line.
- — Michael Dixon, one of the first settlers at New Portage, arrives; he lives there through the rise and fall of the 'State of Coventry,' its only town.
- — William W. Laird builds a cabin at New Portage on the Tuscarawas and begins making flatboats to carry the country's produce to New Orleans; Ambrose Palmer and Dr. Clark soon start a glass factory in the part of New Portage lying in Norton Township.
- — Van R. Humphreys, a young attorney, locates at New Portage believing it will become the chief city of northern Ohio, but soon leaves for Hudson and later becomes a county judge.
- — Catherine Buchtel and Nancy Richards come from Green Township to be baptized in Summit Lake by the Baptist preacher John Haines, son of Daniel Haines.
- — Summit Lake, once ringed by an impenetrable tamarack swamp, becomes the source of supply for the upper level of the Ohio Canal.
- — Coventry, with nine other townships, is taken from Portage County to form the new Summit County.
- — A canal reservoir of connected lakes and ponds in the south of the township, built at a state cost of over $150,000, is finished to feed the canal's summit level; it extends into Green and Franklin townships.
Stories
A gun-trap for a pig-thieving bear
Pioneer ingenuity in early Coventry sometimes took the form of an armed trap. When a bear raided Maj. Minor Spicer's pig-pen and hauled a squealing hog off to a ravine near the cemetery to eat, twelve-year-old Avery Spicer caught the animal in the act and ran for his father's cousin, Capt. Amos Spicer, to help catch it. The two rigged three muskets on forks driven into the ground, each loaded with several balls and rigged with a trigger-string running to what was left of the dead hog, reasoning correctly that the bear would return that night to finish its meal. They were right: in the night one musket fired, and in the morning they followed a bloody trail down the ravine to find the animal dead, shot clean through by the old gun. It was the kind of resourceful, slightly dangerous problem-solving, the county historian noted, that gave otherwise grinding pioneer routine 'the spice and variety of life.'
The State of Coventry
New Portage, at the head of navigation on the Tuscarawas where the Portage Path ended, was called by Coventry people the only town and capital of the 'State of Coventry.' Its Native history was Hopocan's: the 1881 county history places the Delaware chief Captain Pipe's village there and has him signing the 1785 Fort McIntosh treaty as 'King of New Portage.' In 1819 William Laird built flatboats on the river, and contractors from Springfield, Middlebury and Tallmadge hauled the country's produce there to be floated to New Orleans, hard as that is to believe when schoolboys wade the river. A glass factory followed, and a young lawyer, Van R. Humphreys, settled in 1821 expecting the principal city of northern Ohio. The canal and railroads bypassed it; Humphreys left for Hudson, the glass works closed, and a later extension called Brownville produced one house, afterward a match factory. Joe Keeler, a Mormon preacher and notorious passer of counterfeit money, built a brick house near the canal bridge.
Courting by moonlight in Daniel Haines's cabin
During the winter of 1815 two young men came over from Green Township to split rails for settlers near the Allen neighbourhood in Coventry. One evening they followed young Ithamore Bellows through the woods to the log cabin of 'Uncle Dan' Haines, the township's first settler, and hid outside to spy on proceedings within. Late in the evening, as Cupid was making rapid strides, a laugh from outside interrupted. Bellows seized his hat and gave chase. The county historian suspected that one or both of the spies was himself smitten by the same fair face, but Ithamore came out the winner: he married Haines's daughter and took up land back of the Allen neighbourhood.
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Water
Mostly private wells The water here
- Akron City73% of residentsLake Rockwell (Cuyahoga River impoundment)
- Barberton City19% of residentsWolf Creek (Barberton) Reservoir, tributary of Tuscarawas River
- Aqua Ohio - Massillon8% of residentsWells in Tuscarawas Valley sand & gravel aquifer
- M and C Mobile Home Park0% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)
- Rex Hill Estates, Llc0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Coventry Township, Summit County's boundary: 1 dialysis center, 1 fire or EMS station, 1 college, 3 high-hazard dams, 3 public schools, 1 police station, 1 shale or injection well and 11 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Dialysis centers (1)
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Davita Coventry DialysisDialysis · Akron
- Address
- 3235 Manchester Road, Suite 9, Akron, OH 44319
- Dialysis stations
- 13
- Medicare star rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Services
- in-center hemodialysis
- Ownership
- for profit
- Chain
- DaVita
- Medicare certified since
- 2014-09-29
- Phone
- (330) 645-9453
- Medicare ID
- 362820
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS dialysis facility list (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS dialysis facility list, September 2026, geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (an address it could not place sits at its ZIP center).
Fire and EMS stations (1)
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Coventry Fire DepartmentAkron
- Address
- 68 Portage Lakes Drive, Akron, OH 44319
- Coordinates
- 41.00150, -81.52640
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.
Colleges (1)
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Herzing University-AkronPrivate nonprofit college · Akron
- What it is
- Private nonprofit college
- City
- Akron
- Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
- 755
- Tuition and fees, in state
- $13,420
- Graduation rate
- 14% of bachelor's students, within six years (a class of 7)
- IPEDS unit ID
- 200785
College Navigator (NCES) ↗ IPEDS data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 2023-24 enrollment and tuition, graduation rates for the 2017 (four-year) and 2020 (two-year) entering classes.
High-hazard dams (3)
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East Reservoir DamTributary To Tuscarawas River · condition: satisfactory
- Hazard class
- High: a failure would probably cost a life
- Condition
- Satisfactory (assessed 08/18/2015)
- River or stream
- Tributary To Tuscarawas River
- Purpose
- Recreation;Water Supply
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 25 ft
- Storage
- 8,796 acre-feet
- Completed
- 1840
- Owner type
- State
- County
- Summit County
- Nearest town (NID)
- Portage Lakes
- Last inspection
- 08/18/2015
- Emergency action plan
- Yes
- NID ID
- OH00588
National Inventory of Dams record ↗ National Inventory of Dams (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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North Reservoir Dam PoorTributary To Tuscarawas River · condition: poor
- Hazard class
- High: a failure would probably cost a life
- Condition
- Poor (assessed 08/18/2015)
- River or stream
- Tributary To Tuscarawas River
- Purpose
- Recreation;Water Supply
- Type
- Other
- Height
- 13 ft
- Storage
- 1,111 acre-feet
- Completed
- 1840
- Owner type
- State
- County
- Summit County
- Nearest town (NID)
- Portage Lakes
- Last inspection
- 08/18/2015
- Emergency action plan
- Yes
- NID ID
- OH00587
National Inventory of Dams record ↗ National Inventory of Dams (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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West Reservoir DamTributary To Tuscarawas River · condition: satisfactory
- Hazard class
- High: a failure would probably cost a life
- Condition
- Satisfactory (assessed 04/14/2021)
- River or stream
- Tributary To Tuscarawas River
- Purpose
- Water Supply;Recreation
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 22 ft
- Storage
- 8,796 acre-feet
- Completed
- 1840
- Owner type
- State
- County
- Summit County
- Nearest town (NID)
- Portage Lakes
- Last inspection
- 05/08/2025
- Emergency action plan
- Yes
- NID ID
- OH00585
National Inventory of Dams record ↗ National Inventory of Dams (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams, August 2026. "High hazard" rates what a failure would cost downstream, not how likely one is; the condition is the state's assessment.
Public schools (3)
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Coventry Elementary School4 of 5 stars · Akron
- Address
- 3089 Manchester Rd, Akron, OH 44319
- School district
- Coventry Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 448
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 27
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 84.4%
- Ohio building IRN
- 037622
- NCES school ID
- 390499903791
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Coventry High School3 of 5 stars · Akron
- Address
- 1135 Portage Lakes Dr, Akron, OH 44319
- School district
- Coventry Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 540
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 39
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 76.1%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 93.5%
- Ohio building IRN
- 007286
- NCES school ID
- 390499903788
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Coventry Middle School4.5 of 5 stars · Akron
- Address
- 3257 Cormany Rd, Akron, OH 44319
- School district
- Coventry Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 437
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 31
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 81.8%
- Ohio building IRN
- 010702
- NCES school ID
- 390499903789
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: NCES EDGE public school locations 2024-25 and Common Core of Data 2023-24 (type, students, teachers); Ohio School Report Cards 2025-26 (Department of Education and Workforce), matched by name within the district.
Police stations (1)
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Summit County Sheriff's Office - Coventry Township StationAkron
- Address
- 68 Portage Lakes Drive, Akron, OH 44319
- Coordinates
- 41.00159, -81.52622
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures, police stations, corrected and completed by hand (September 2026). The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction, not by distance.
Shale and injection wells (1)
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Cargill Salt (Smp#4) 68 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
- What it is
- Injection well (Class II)
- Operator
- Cargill Inc
- County
- Summit County
- API well number
- 34153228740000
- Coordinates
- 41.02208, -81.55285
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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.
Spills reported since 2021 (11)
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Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2024-09-10 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2024-09-10
- What spilled
- Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
- Largest amount reported
- 10 gallons
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2409EPA0001552
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Brown2023-12-10 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2023-12-10
- What spilled
- Material Brown
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2312EPA0002038
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2023-12-02 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2023-12-02
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2312EPA0002008
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Blue Reached water2023-11-27 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2023-11-27
- What spilled
- Material Blue
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2311EPA0001987
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)2023-06-07 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2023-06-07
- What spilled
- Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)
- Largest amount reported
- 1 gallons
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2306EPA0000942
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2022-12-06 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2022-12-06
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road); Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S); Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
- Largest amount reported
- 30 gallons
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2212EPA0001812
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Chemical(S) Unk2022-11-29 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2022-11-29
- What spilled
- Chemical(S) Unk
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2211EPA0001768
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2022-07-16 · Springfield Twp
- Reported
- 2022-07-16
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 100 gallons
- Where
- Springfield Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2207EPA0001074
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2022-06-18 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2022-06-18
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 45 gallons
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2206EPA0000913
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2021-05-30 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2021-05-30
- What spilled
- Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
- Largest amount reported
- 5 gallons
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2105EPA0000768
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2026-03-18 · Coventry Twp
- Reported
- 2026-03-18
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 20 gallons
- Where
- Coventry Twp, Summit County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2603EPA0000424
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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 Coventry Township, Summit 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 Coventry Township, Summit County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Money issues on the ballot since 2023: 2 of 2 passed; of those asking for new or higher taxes, 2 of 2.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-05 | Issue 23: Coventry TWP Proposed Tax Levy (Replacement and Decrease | 3,260 | 1,874 | Passed (63.5% for) |
| 2023-11-07 | Issue 5: Coventry Twp Tax Levy Replacement | 2,003 | 1,670 | Passed (54.53% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-07 | Trustee | George T. Beckham 2,665, 100.0% |
| 2023-11-07 | Fiscal Officer | David Gissinger 2,435, 100.0% |
Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- OP&F Examination, 2024, released 2026-05-21
- Financial Audit, 2023 to 2024, released 2026-01-06
The county
Summit County: 34 ZIP codes, 30 cities, villages and townships, 544,541 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Coventry Township, Ohio in?
Coventry Township, Summit County is a township in Summit County, Ohio, with 10,353 residents.
When was Coventry Township, Ohio founded?
Coventry Township, Summit County was settled 1806 (Daniel Haines, per the 1881 county history); incorporated organized 1808, initially as part of Springfield Township (then Trumbull County); became part of Summit County in 1840. Source
What ZIP code is Coventry Township, Ohio?
Coventry Township, Summit County is served by ZIP codes 44319 and 44203; 44319 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Coventry Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Coventry Township, Summit County (Akron City): Mostly private wells.
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