Local events in Franklin Township, Monroe County
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How Franklin Township, Monroe County began
Franklin Township, organized March 4, 1822 in the county's west, was first settled around 1805-1806 on Clear Fork by Martin and Fredrick Crow. Its village, Stafford, was laid out by John Jobes around 1834-35 under the name Bethel and later renamed by William Steel, a Scottish-born abolitionist whose son William Gladstone Steel would go on to found Crater Lake National Park; Stafford became a documented stop on the Underground Railroad, with routes reportedly running from Marietta through the village to Summerfield and on into Canada. The township's population peaked near 1,251 by 1880, largely supported by Methodist congregations.
Settled 1805-1806 (Martin and Fredrick Crow, Clear Fork), incorporated 1822-03-04 (township organized).
Where the name comes from
No source consulted explains the origin of the township name 'Franklin.' The village of Stafford was originally platted as Bethel by John Jobes and renamed Stafford when its post office was established, reportedly at the instance of William Steel.
Before the town
No source consulted names a Native American village, camp or mound specific to Franklin Township. The area lay within the broader hunting and travel range of the Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware) and Mingo peoples before the Treaty of Greenville (1795), but no source found ties a named site to the township.
Nations recorded here: Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga).
Timeline
- — Martin and Fredrick Crow settled on Clear Fork, among the earliest documented settlers of what became Franklin Township.
- — Henry Howe's 1891 county history, in an undated list of the county's earliest settlements, independently places a Crow family settlement 'on Clear Fork creek' in the same sequence as Calais (1802) and the Cline settlement (1805), naming the settler 'Michael Crow' rather than Franklin Township's own local history's 'Martin and Fredrick Crow.'
- — Franklin Township was formally organized, comprising 26 sections across three ranges.
- — A Methodist church organization formed in the township, among its earliest.
- — John Jobes laid out the village of Bethel, in the southwest quarter of section 8.
- — Stafford's population reached its recorded peak of 197.
- — Franklin Township's population reached 1,251.
Stories
Stafford: an abolitionist village on the Underground Railroad
The village John Jobes laid out around 1834-35 in Franklin Township started life named Bethel. It became Stafford, tradition holds, at the instance of William Steel, a Scottish-born abolitionist who settled there and built the village into a documented 'free black' settlement, home to both African American and white residents actively engaged in helping enslaved people escape to freedom. According to local history, almost everyone in the village took part in some way in protecting fugitives moving north along a route said to run from Marietta through Stafford to Summerfield and onward into Ontario, Canada. Steel also established an integrated school in the village at a time when that was rare anywhere in Ohio. His son, William Gladstone Steel, born of this Franklin Township upbringing, went on to a very different kind of legacy, becoming the driving force behind the creation of Crater Lake National Park in Oregon -- a connection that links a small, now largely forgotten Monroe County abolitionist village to one of the American West's best-known national parks.
Local history sources: monroe.ohgenweb.org · en.wikipedia.org · archive.org
Water
No water-system data is linked to Franklin Township, Monroe County's ZIP codes yet.
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Franklin Township, Monroe County's boundary: 9 shale and injection wells, 1 Toxics Release Inventory facility and 1 spill case. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Shale and injection wells (9)
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Bishop-Benatar 1HuUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245230000
- Coordinates
- 39.77396, -81.29756
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Bishop-Benatar 2HuUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245250000
- Coordinates
- 39.77397, -81.29751
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Bishop-Dimmerling 1HuUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245270000
- Coordinates
- 39.77392, -81.29771
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Bishop-Dimmerling 2HuUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245280000
- Coordinates
- 39.77393, -81.29766
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Bishop-Dimmerling 3HuUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245260000
- Coordinates
- 39.77394, -81.29761
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Webb S 1HuUtica shale well · Well drilled
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Status (ODNR)
- Well drilled
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111244680000
- Coordinates
- 39.70744, -81.24991
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Webb S 2HuUtica shale well · Well drilled
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Status (ODNR)
- Well drilled
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111244690000
- Coordinates
- 39.70739, -81.24993
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Webb S 3HuUtica shale well · Drilling
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Status (ODNR)
- Drilling
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111244670000
- Coordinates
- 39.70742, -81.24992
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Webb-Wolf Pen 3HuUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Inr Ohio Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111243530100
- Coordinates
- 39.70747, -81.24992
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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)
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Berne PlantToxics Release Inventory · Lewisville
- Address
- 46240 Swazey Rd, Lewisville, OH 43754
- County
- Monroe County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (***unchanged***)
- EPA program ID
- 4375WBRNPL4624S
- EPA registry ID
- 110062901105
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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 (1)
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Oil Crude2022-10-30 · Franklin Twp
- Reported
- 2022-10-30
- What spilled
- Oil Crude; Oil Petroleum Not Otherwise Specified (Nos)
- Largest amount reported
- 250 gallons
- Where
- Franklin Twp, Monroe County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2210EPA0001619
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 Franklin Township, Monroe County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
| ZIP | Share | Water | Radon | Home value | Schools | Flood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43754 Summit Township and Lewisville | 17% | Mostly private wells | Too few radon tests | Median year built 1950 | Switzerland of Ohio Local · 3 stars overall | 2.7% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 43788 Marion Township and Summerfield | 7% | Mostly private wells | Too few radon tests | Appraisal records without year built | Noble Local · 3.5 stars overall | 2.9% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 45734 Washington Township and Graysville | 5% | Mostly private wells | Too few radon tests | Median year built 1972 | Switzerland of Ohio Local · 3 stars overall | 1.0% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Franklin Township, Monroe County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-02 | Township Trustee | Cliff Delong 56, 36.84%; Donald Vincent Hogue 62, 40.79%; Charles Taylor Winland 34, 22.37% |
| 2019-11-05 | Township Trustee | Michael Bryan McConnell 76, 100.0% |
| 2019-11-05 | Township Fiscal Officer | Julie A. Hogue 46, 43.4%; Logan Norman 60, 56.6% |
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.
- Basic Audit, 2022 to 2023, released 2024-11-07
The county
Monroe County: 10 ZIP codes, 27 cities, villages and townships, 13,100 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Franklin Township, Ohio in?
Franklin Township, Monroe County is a township in Monroe County, Ohio, with 307 residents.
When was Franklin Township, Ohio founded?
Franklin Township, Monroe County was settled 1805-1806 (Martin and Fredrick Crow, Clear Fork); incorporated 1822-03-04 (township organized). Source
What ZIP code is Franklin Township, Ohio?
Franklin Township, Monroe County is served by ZIP codes 43754, 43788 and 45734; 43754 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Franklin Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Franklin Township, Monroe County: Mostly private wells.
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