Lancaster, Fairfield County

Lancaster

City · Fairfield County · 40,595 residents · 2.3% municipal income tax

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Local events in Lancaster

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Saturday, October 31

Color Improvisations 3: A Major Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts

Oct 3 to Jan 3 · Decorative Arts Center of Ohio · From Visit Fairfield County (Destination Lancaster)
Saturday, October 31

The Elegance of Erickson Exhibition

Oct 1 to Aug 31 · Ohio Glass Museum and Glass Blowing Studio · From Visit Fairfield County (Destination Lancaster)
Saturday, October 31

Fall Finale at the Lancaster Farmers Market

8:30 a.m. to noon · Lancaster Farmers Market · From Visit Fairfield County (Destination Lancaster)

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Ohio's first peopleOhio's first people arrived at least 13,000 years ago, hunted mastodons and giant sloths, and carried Coshocton flint hundreds of miles on foot.

Notable Ohioans tied to Lancaster

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How Lancaster began

Lancaster, the Fairfield County seat and now the county's largest city at about 40,000 people, grew up where Zane's Trace crossed the Hocking River on ground the Wyandot called the Standing Stone, after their village of Tarhe Town (Cranetown) on the river's north bank. Captain Joseph Hunter built the first cabin near the crossing in 1798; Ebenezer Zane, granted the section of land there for blazing the Trace, platted the town in 1800 and it was named New Lancaster for the Pennsylvania hometown of many of its first settlers, shortened to Lancaster in 1805. It became the seat of Fairfield County at the county's creation on December 9, 1800, grew on canal trade in the 1830s, and gave the country the Sherman brothers -- General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman -- both born in the same house on East Main Street. The Hocking Glass Company, founded in 1905 and merged into Anchor Hocking in 1937, made Lancaster a company town for glassware through the twentieth century.

Settled 1798 (Captain Joseph Hunter builds a cabin at 'Hunter's Settlement' on Zane's Trace, on the prairie just west of the Hocking River crossing, in April 1798), platted 1800 (Ebenezer Zane lays out and sells the first lots that fall; the plat was substantially complete by spring 1801), incorporated 1831 as an incorporated village; became a city of the third class in 1851, by Ebenezer Zane, proprietor of the section of land at the Hocking crossing.

Where the name comes from

The town was first called New Lancaster, in compliment to the many early settlers, including the influential Emanuel Carpenter family, who had emigrated from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Ohio legislature dropped the 'New' in 1805 to avoid confusion with the Pennsylvania town in the postal service, though the older name kept informal use for another twenty years.

Before the town

General George Sanderson's recollections, recorded in Hervey Scott's 1877 county history, describe a Wyandot town of about 500 people and 100 wigwams standing on the prairie along the Hocking River about where Lancaster's Broad Street and the later canal basin lay, extending back to the hill south of the site of the Methodist church. It was called Tarhe, or in English Cranetown, for its principal chief, Tarhe (the Crane), whose own wigwam stood near a spring that still fed the Hocking Canal's fourth lock. The bluff a mile north of the town site, later called Mount Pleasant, was known to the Wyandot as the Standing Stone, a landmark visible for miles up and down the valley; the 1912 county history records that the mountain went by 'the Indian name, Standing Stone' before it became Rising Park. A second Wyandot town, called Toby Town after its chief, stood about nine miles west near present Royalton and was inhabited by Wyandot and Lenape (Delaware) people together. The Wyandot ceded their claim to the Hocking valley at the Treaty of Greenville, signed August 3, 1795, and most withdrew toward the Sandusky River soon after, though Scott's history says a few lingered near their old hunting grounds and burial places for several years before finally leaving. Fairfield County's 1883 history separately describes about twenty Adena- or Hopewell-era mounds, circles and squares scattered through the county's townships (none within Lancaster itself), and records that Dr. M. Z. Kreider of Lancaster opened a mound about a mile southwest of the city, on the former Creed farm, finding a few bones and trinkets the historian guessed belonged to 'some Wyandot warrior' rather than the older mound-building culture.

Nations recorded here: Wyandot, Lenape (Delaware).

Tarhe Town (Cranetown) (village) — north bank of the Hocking River, at the site of Lancaster, near the later canal basin and fourth lock, occupied at least by 1790; ceded and largely abandoned after the 1795 Treaty of Greenville (archive.org)
Standing Stone (Mount Pleasant) (other) — a 250-foot sandstone bluff about one mile north of Main and Broad streets, Lancaster, used and named by the Wyandot before white settlement; became the city park Rising Park in the 19th century (archive.org)
Toby Town (village) — about nine miles west of Tarhe Town, near present Royalton, within Fairfield County, before 1798, when the first white settlers reached the area (archive.org)
Mound on the Creed farm (mound) — about one mile southwest of the city of Lancaster, prehistoric mound, opened in the 19th century by Dr. M. Z. Kreider of Lancaster; finds attributed by the historian to a Wyandot burial (archive.org)

Timeline

c. 1790 — The Wyandot town of Tarhe (Cranetown), governed by Chief Tarhe and numbering about 500 people, stands on the north bank of the Hocking River at the site of the future Lancaster.
1795 — The Treaty of Greenville, signed August 3 between the United States and a coalition including the Wyandot, cedes most of the Hocking valley; the Wyandot soon withdraw toward the Sandusky River.
1796-1797 — Ebenezer Zane's road, Zane's Trace, is cut from Wheeling to Limestone, Kentucky, crossing the Hocking River at the future site of Lancaster; Congress grants Zane the right to purchase land at the crossing.
1798 — Captain Joseph Hunter emigrates from Kentucky and builds a cabin on Zane's Trace just west of the Hocking crossing in April, the first white settlement in the upper Hocking Valley.
1799 — Samuel Coates Sr. and Jr. build a cabin at 'the Crossing of Hocking' in April; when a weekly mail route opens along Zane's Trace later that year, Coates becomes the first postmaster at the new settlement.
1800 — In the fall, Ebenezer Zane lays out and sells the first town lots, giving some free to mechanics who would build cabins and set up shop; the settlement is named New Lancaster for the many settlers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1800 — On December 9, the governor and council of the Northwest Territory organize Fairfield County and name New Lancaster its seat of justice.
1805 — The Ohio legislature shortens the town's name from New Lancaster to Lancaster to avoid confusion with Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the postal service.
1811 — The frame house at what is now 137 East Main Street is built; it will become the birthplace of both Sherman brothers.
1816 — Thomas Ewing, later a U.S. Senator and the first Secretary of the Interior, establishes his law practice in Lancaster, where he will live the rest of his life; the Sherman house is enlarged the same year.
1820 — William Tecumseh Sherman is born in the family house on East Main Street on February 8.
1823 — John Sherman, the future U.S. Senator and Treasury Secretary, is born in the same house on May 10, the eighth of Charles and Mary Sherman's eleven children.
1829 — Charles Sherman, a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, dies suddenly of typhoid fever, leaving his widow with eleven children; nine-year-old William Tecumseh Sherman is taken in by neighbor Thomas Ewing.
1831 — Lancaster is incorporated as a village by act of the state legislature.
1832 — The Lancaster Lateral Canal Company is organized and its 'Side Cut' to the Ohio Canal at Carroll is put under contract.
1835 or 1836 — The first canal boats are towed into Lancaster on the Side Cut on the Fourth of July -- the source itself is unsure which year -- celebrated by an estimated 10,000 people with a roasted ox at Cold Spring Hill.
1837-1841 — The state Board of Public Works builds the Hocking Canal south from Lancaster in stages, reaching Nelsonville by 1840 and Athens by 1841, with 31 locks and 8 dams in all.
1850 — The Fairfield County Agricultural Society organizes, with John Reber as president; it holds the first Fairfield County Fair in Lancaster in October 1851.
1851 — Lancaster becomes a city of the third class.
1857-1858 — The Ohio legislature funds a reform farm for boys near Lancaster; ten boys are brought from the Cincinnati House of Refuge and placed there on January 30, 1858.
1871 — Thomas Ewing dies in Lancaster on October 26 at age 81; his son-in-law's fame as General Sherman is by then secure.
1878 — The city erects its first waterworks, a pumping station on West Chestnut Street near the Hocking Canal with a standpipe for fire protection, drawing water from the canal.
1882 — The canal-fed fire system is abandoned for a new pump house on West Wheeling Street, drawing on an enlarged spring and infiltration gallery that begins supplying domestic as well as fire service.
1898 — A 2.5-million-gallon masonry reservoir is built on Walter's Hill northeast of the pump house to serve the growing water system.
1903-1907 — The city drills municipal wells for sanitary reasons and, after several years of test drilling, opens a new well supply near the Wheeling Street station by 1907.
1905-1906 — Isaac J. Collins founds the Hocking Glass Company in the former 'Black Cat' carbon plant, melting its first glass in February 1906.
1906 — The Fairfield County Fair's Round Cattle Barn, 95 feet across, is built by J. E. Hedges.
1924 — Fire destroys the Hocking Glass Company's 'Black Cat' plant on March 6, killing foreman Merrill Deavers and idling 650 workers; the company rebuilds and buys a controlling interest in the Lancaster Glass Company to keep production going.
1937 — Hocking Glass merges with the Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation to form Anchor Hocking, which becomes Lancaster's largest employer.
1951 — The Sherman brothers' birthplace opens to the public as a museum, operated by the Fairfield County Heritage Association.
1966 — The Sherman House, at 137 East Main Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, two years after its 1964 National Historic Landmark designation.
1983 — The Lancaster Historic District, combining the earlier Square 13 and West Main Street local districts and including the Sherman House, the Georgian Museum and the Ewing and Stanbery houses, is listed on the National Register on August 11.

Stories

Tarhe's Town on the Hocking

Before Lancaster existed, a Wyandot town of about 500 people stood on the north bank of the Hocking River along the same prairie later platted into city streets. General George Sanderson, a Fairfield County pioneer who lived to see the town grow from its founding, recalled the place decades later as 'Tarhe, or in English, Cranetown,' named for its ruling chief. The chief's own wigwam stood near a spring on the riverbank -- a spring that, by Sanderson's telling, still flowed into the Hocking near the fourth lock of the canal built through the same ground a generation later. Tarhe himself was remembered as an unusually able leader; other sources describe him fighting the United States until the 1794 defeat at Fallen Timbers, after which he signed the Treaty of Greenville and worked afterward for peace between his people and the settlers pouring down Zane's Trace.

A Cabin at the Crossing

Two years before Ebenezer Zane's sons began selling town lots, Fairfield County's first white settler had already built his home a few hundred yards from where Lancaster would rise. In April 1798, Captain Joseph Hunter brought his family from Kentucky up the newly cut Zane's Trace and stopped on the prairie just west of the Hocking River crossing, with no neighbor nearer than the Muskingum or the Scioto. He and his wife -- the first white woman in the valley -- cleared brush and raised a cabin at what came to be called Hunter's Settlement. Within months other families followed: the Wilsons, the Greens, the McMullens. Hunter lived to see the wilderness he had entered become 'the flourishing and populous county of Fairfield,' dying around 1829, the same year Charles Sherman's death would orphan his young sons a few miles away in the town Hunter's arrival had made possible.

New Lancaster, Twice Named

The town Ebenezer Zane platted in the fall of 1800 was not called Lancaster at first. Many of the earliest settlers, including the influential Carpenter family, had come from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the new settlement on the Hocking was named New Lancaster in their honor. The name stuck informally for a generation, but it caused enough confusion with the Pennsylvania town's mail that the Ohio legislature officially shortened it to plain Lancaster in 1805. Locals kept calling it New Lancaster for another twenty years anyway. By then the town Zane had laid out for $5 to $50 a lot, with free parcels thrown in for mechanics willing to set up shop, had already become the seat of a county organized before Ohio itself was a state.

The Side Cut's Fourth of July

Lancaster's link to the outside world for a generation was a narrow ribbon of water. In 1832 a group of local investors organized the Lancaster Lateral Canal Company to dig a 'Side Cut' connecting the town to the Ohio Canal at Carroll. The project took the better part of three years, and when the first boats finally arrived, the town treated it as a holiday to rival any other: an estimated ten thousand people -- more than the town's own population many times over -- gathered at Cold Spring Hill for a roasted ox and a free dinner, with cannons booming and bands playing, though the old county history admits it cannot say for certain whether the great day fell in 1835 or 1836. Wheat that had fetched 25 to 40 cents before the canal opened found buyers at far better prices afterward, and Lancaster's nine dry goods stores did a booming trade shipping the county's grain east.

One House, Two Statesmen

The plain frame house built on Lancaster's East Main Street in 1811 would produce two of Ohio's most consequential nineteenth-century figures. Charles and Mary Sherman raised their large family there, and two of their sons -- William Tecumseh, born February 8, 1820, and John, born May 10, 1823 -- would go on to command Union armies and steer the U.S. Senate and Treasury, respectively. Their father's sudden death from typhoid fever in 1829 scattered the eleven Sherman children among relatives and friends; nine-year-old William was taken in by a neighbor, attorney Thomas Ewing, who had built his own law practice in Lancaster since 1816. Sherman later married Ewing's daughter Ellen, tying the two families together permanently. Ewing died in Lancaster in 1871, and the Sherman house itself opened to the public as a museum eighty years after the brothers' births, in 1951.

The Standing Stone Becomes a Park

The 250-foot sandstone bluff a mile north of downtown Lancaster carried three names across three eras, by the 1912 county history's own count. The Wyandot called it Standing Stone, a landmark visible for miles along the valley they had lived in before 1795. White settlers renamed it Mount Pleasant and made it a favorite spot for visitors, including a Duke of Saxony who reportedly climbed to the summit in 1828 and carved his name into the soft sandstone, still legible generations later. The mountain's final transformation came when Philip Rising bought it and gave it outright to the city as a public park, and it has been known as Rising Park ever since -- Lancaster's Indian-named, duke-signed, privately-donated mountain in the middle of a small Ohio city.

Ten Boys From the House of Refuge

Ohio's first reform school for boys began, awkwardly, with a failed bill. In 1857 a state legislator from Oberlin proposed a commission to study reform schools elsewhere, but the measure died. It took a Cincinnati reformer's report on European institutions to push the legislature into action the following year: money was appropriated, a site purchased six miles southwest of Lancaster, and cheap log buildings hastily raised. On January 30, 1858, ten boys arrived from the House of Refuge in Cincinnati to become the reform farm's first residents, under the day-to-day charge of commissioner George Howe and his wife, who served as matron. The institution grew into the Boys' Industrial School, its buildings visible from the top of Mount Pleasant six miles away, and it remained a fixture of the county for generations after those first ten boys stepped off the wagon.

Fire at the Black Cat

Isaac Collins had named his new glassworks for the old carbon plant he bought to house it in 1905 -- workers called the blackened building 'the Black Cat' -- and by 1911 the Hocking Glass Company was already one of Lancaster's biggest employers. On March 6, 1924, fire tore through the plant, killing foreman Merrill Deavers and throwing 650 people out of work overnight. Insurance covered only part of the loss, and for a time it was not clear the company would rebuild at all. Lancaster's own residents helped answer that question, raising money and support for reconstruction, while the company bought a controlling interest in the nearby Lancaster Glass Company to keep shipping product during the rebuild. Hocking Glass came back stronger, and in 1937 it merged with the Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation to become Anchor Hocking -- the company whose name would be inseparable from Lancaster's for the rest of the century.

A Fair Since Before the Civil War

The Fairfield County Agricultural Society organized in 1850, and the following October it held the first Fairfield County Fair in a field owned by its president, John Reber. The fair proved popular enough that Reber was authorized to buy permanent grounds, and in 1852 he purchased fourteen acres at the foot of Mount Pleasant for the purpose -- ground the fair still occupies, much expanded, today. By 1906 the fairgrounds had grown enough to support a Round Cattle Barn built by J. E. Hedges, though fires in 1908 and 1909 destroyed the horse barns, Art Hall and grandstands and forced a rebuild. Lancaster's own Wikipedia entry describes the fair today as the 'last' one held in Ohio's county-fair calendar each year, always in October -- a wry nod to the state's 88 counties and Fairfield's traditionally late slot on the circuit, and one of the state's longest continuously running county fairs by any measure.

Photographs

Postcard view of Lancaster's City Hall and Post Office (1907)
Photo: Columbus Metropolitan Library, via DPLA/Ohio Digital Network, no known copyright restrictions · Wikimedia Commons

Postcard of the Administration Building at the Boys' Industrial School (the former Ohio Reform Farm) near Lancaster (early 1900s (undated postcard))
Photo: Columbus Metropolitan Library, via DPLA/Ohio Digital Network, no known copyright restrictions · Wikimedia Commons

Bird's-eye postcard view of Lancaster seen from the summit of Mount Pleasant (the Standing Stone) (1912)
Photo: Columbus Metropolitan Library, via DPLA/Ohio Digital Network, public domain · Wikimedia Commons

'Greetings from Lancaster, Ohio' large-letter postcard, printed by Curt Teich for Case's Drug Store (1953)
Photo: Steve Shook, via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The Sherman House Museum at 137 East Main Street, birthplace of William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman (2022)
Photo: Zohoe, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Historic places

8 places in Lancaster on the National Register of Historic Places, 1 of them National Historic Landmark. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

Sherman, John, Birthplace LandmarkBuilding · Lancaster · listed 1966

Address
137 E. Main St.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Building

Listed on the National Register
1966

National Historic Landmark
Yes

NRIS reference number
66000609

Coordinates
39.71387, -82.59521

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Bush, Samuel, HouseBuilding · Lancaster · listed 1974

Address
1934 Cold Spring Dr.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Building

Listed on the National Register
1974

NRIS reference number
74001478

Coordinates
39.73750, -82.61909

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Fairfield County Children's HomeHistoric district · Lancaster · listed 2008

Address
1743 E. Main St.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Historic district

Listed on the National Register
2008

NRIS reference number
08001196

Coordinates
39.71595, -82.56632

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Fairfield County InfirmaryHistoric district · Lancaster

Address
1587 Granville Pike and 1651 Lancaster-Newark Rd. NE

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Historic district

Latest NPS certification action
2020

NRIS reference number
100005128

Coordinates
39.73720, -82.58851

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Lancaster West Main Street Historic DistrictHistoric district · Lancaster · listed 1979

Address
W. Main St. from Columbus to Broad St.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Historic district

Listed on the National Register
1979

NRIS reference number
79001830

Coordinates
39.71376, -82.60326

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Medill, William, HouseBuilding · Lancaster · listed 1978

Address
319 N. High St.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Building

Listed on the National Register
1978

NRIS reference number
78002061

Coordinates
39.71642, -82.59947

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St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchBuilding · Lancaster · listed 1979

Address
Broad and Mullberry Sts.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Building

Listed on the National Register
1979

NRIS reference number
79001831

Coordinates
39.71657, -82.60145

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Tallmadge-Mithoff HouseBuilding · Lancaster · listed 1976

Address
720 Lincoln Ave.

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County · ZIP 43130

What it is
Building

Listed on the National Register
1976

NRIS reference number
76001422

Coordinates
39.70889, -82.61644

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Water

North Water Treatment Plant, a new 9.3 MGD firm-capacity reverse-osmosis plant reported in service 2026, which replaced the retired approximately 1925 Miller Park Water Plant. Draws on the Miller Park well field (12 wells), used since 1932, in Miller Park along N. Memorial Drive north of downtown Lancaster. The water here

Lancaster City97% of residentsHocking River Valley Aquifer (wells)
Greenfield Twp Water District3% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Sugar Grove Village0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Brookdale Mobile Home Park0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Colony Village MHP0% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)
Fairfield County Utilities0% of residentsLocal groundwater wells (central Ohio, aquifer undocumented)

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Lancaster's boundary: 1 hospital, 2 health centers, 1 dialysis center, 4 nursing homes, 3 fire and EMS stations, 1 college, 10 public schools, 5 private schools, 3 poor-rated bridges, 1 library, 8 museums, 2 police stations, 5 public charging sites, 1 Superfund site, 18 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 17 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Hospitals (1)

Fairfield Medical CenterGeneral hospital · Lancaster

What it is
General hospital

Address
401 North Ewing Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Beds
245

Helipad
Yes

Ownership
Non-profit

Medicare overall rating
2 of 5 stars

Emergency department (Medicare)
Yes

Phone
(740) 687-8000

Medicare ID
360072

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Community health centers (2)

FCHC Medical Mobile ClinicHealth center · Lancaster

Run by
a federally qualified health center

Setting
Clinic

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71078, -82.59806

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FCHC SouthHealth center · Lancaster

Run by
a federally qualified health center

Setting
Clinic

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71078, -82.59806

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Source: HRSA health center service delivery sites, active, September 2026 (school-based sites left out). Health centers see patients whether or not they have insurance, with fees on a sliding scale.

Dialysis centers (1)

Fairfield Kidney CenterDialysis · Lancaster

Address
618 Pleasantville Road, Ste 102, Lancaster, OH 43130

Dialysis stations
15

Medicare star rating
2 of 5 stars

Services
in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis

Ownership
for profit

Chain
American Renal Associates

Medicare certified since
2007-03-07

Phone
(740) 687-6480

Medicare ID
362693

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Nursing homes (4)

Buckeye Care and Rehabilitation1 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
1900 East Main Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

Certified beds
99

Residents on an average day
88

Medicare overall rating
1 of 5 stars

Health inspections
2 of 5 stars

Staffing
1 of 5 stars

Quality measures
4 of 5 stars

Penalties since 2023
1 fine totalling $20,678 (latest 2024-05-16)

Ownership
For profit - Limited Liability company

Chain
PACS GROUP

Takes
Medicare and Medicaid

Phone
(740) 653-8630

Medicare ID
365250

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Lanfair Center for Rehab & Nsg Care Inc4 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
1590 Chartwell Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

Certified beds
84

Residents on an average day
80

Medicare overall rating
4 of 5 stars

Health inspections
3 of 5 stars

Staffing
3 of 5 stars

Quality measures
5 of 5 stars

Penalties since 2023
none

Ownership
For profit - Corporation

Chain
ALTERCARE

Takes
Medicare and Medicaid

Phone
(740) 687-5100

Medicare ID
366215

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Luxe Rehabilitation and Care Center Special focus2 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
957 Becks Knob Road, Lancaster, OH 43130

Certified beds
172

Residents on an average day
136

Medicare overall rating
2 of 5 stars

Health inspections
1 of 5 stars

Staffing
1 of 5 stars

Quality measures
5 of 5 stars

Penalties since 2023
2 fines totalling $70,768, 1 payment denial (latest 2024-08-29)

Special focus facility
SFF Candidate

Ownership
For profit - Corporation

Chain
DAVID OBERLANDER

Takes
Medicare and Medicaid

Phone
(740) 654-2634

Medicare ID
365344

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Main Street Terrace Care Center4 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
1318 E Main Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

Certified beds
50

Residents on an average day
46

Medicare overall rating
4 of 5 stars

Health inspections
3 of 5 stars

Staffing
4 of 5 stars

Quality measures
5 of 5 stars

Penalties since 2023
1 payment denial (latest 2024-10-28)

Ownership
For profit - Corporation

Takes
Medicare and Medicaid

Phone
(740) 653-8767

Medicare ID
366016

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Fire and EMS stations (3)

Lancaster Fire Department Station 1Lancaster

Address
254 East Chestnut Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

Coordinates
39.71203, -82.59821

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Lancaster Fire Department Station 2Lancaster

Address
601 Harrison Avenue, Lancaster, OH 43130

Coordinates
39.72050, -82.61549

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Lancaster Fire Department Station 3 and HeadquartersLancaster

Address
1596 East Main Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

Coordinates
39.71410, -82.56905

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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)

Ohio University-Lancaster CampusRegional campus of a public university · Lancaster

What it is
Regional campus of a public university

City
Lancaster

Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
3,676

Tuition and fees, in state
$6,178

Tuition and fees, out of state
$9,170

Graduation rate
14% of bachelor's students, within six years (a class of 286)

IPEDS unit ID
204848

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Public schools (10)

Bridges2.5 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
425 Whittier Dr N, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
81

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
5

Report card, 2025-26
2.5 of 5 stars

Performance index
38.5%

Ohio building IRN
016928

NCES school ID
390442005905

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Early Childhood Center 1Lancaster

Address
425 Whittier Dr N, Lancaster, OH 43130

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
114

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
8.4

NCES school ID
390442001136

NCES school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗
General Sherman Junior High School4 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
1930 Election House Rd NW, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
677

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
31.6

Report card, 2025-26
4 of 5 stars

Performance index
74%

Ohio building IRN
061630

NCES school ID
390442001131

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Gorsuch West Elementary School2.5 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
440 Trace Dr, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
576

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
29.8

Report card, 2025-26
2.5 of 5 stars

Performance index
70.6%

Ohio building IRN
005132

NCES school ID
390442001129

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Lancaster High School4 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
1312 Granville Pike, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
1,918

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
90.8

Report card, 2025-26
4 of 5 stars

Performance index
74.4%

Four-year graduation rate
91.9%

Ohio building IRN
019752

NCES school ID
390442001132

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Medill Elementary School3 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
1160 Sheridan Dr, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
565

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
26.1

Report card, 2025-26
3 of 5 stars

Performance index
74.2%

Ohio building IRN
024042

NCES school ID
390442001133

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Mt. Pleasant Elementary School2.5 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
712 N Broad St, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
508

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
25.4

Report card, 2025-26
2.5 of 5 stars

Performance index
70.3%

Ohio building IRN
009340

NCES school ID
390442001130

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Tallmadge Elementary School2.5 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
694 Talmadge Ave, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
481

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
23.5

Report card, 2025-26
2.5 of 5 stars

Performance index
69.9%

Ohio building IRN
036889

NCES school ID
390442001138

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Tarhe Trails Elementary School4 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
2141 Greencrest Way, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
631

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
26.2

Report card, 2025-26
4 of 5 stars

Performance index
81.2%

Ohio building IRN
036913

NCES school ID
390442001139

NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Thomas Ewing Junior High School4 of 5 stars · Lancaster

Address
2024 Sheridan Dr, Lancaster, OH 43130

School district
Lancaster City School District

Kind (NCES)
Regular School

Students, 2023-24
678

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
32.7

Report card, 2025-26
4 of 5 stars

Performance index
71.3%

Ohio building IRN
061655

NCES school ID
390442001140

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.

Private schools (5)

Lancaster Montessori SchoolPrivate, nonsectarian, special program · Lancaster

Address
1111 W Fair Ave, Lancaster, OH 43130

Kind
nonsectarian, special program

Students, 2023-24
2

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
3.3

Students per teacher
0.606061

Phone
(740) 687-0592

NCES private school ID
A9503246

NCES private school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗
New Story SchoolsPrivate, special education · Lancaster

Address
625 Garfield Ave, Lancaster, OH 43130

Kind
special education

Students, 2023-24
36

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
6

Students per teacher
6

Phone
(612) 602-6485

NCES private school ID
A1903431

NCES private school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Redeemer Lutheran PreschoolPrivate, religious, independent · Lancaster

Address
1400 Concordia Dr, Lancaster, OH 43130

Kind
religious, independent

Students, 2023-24
8

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
1

Students per teacher
8

Phone
(740) 653-9727

NCES private school ID
A1903478

NCES private school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗
St Bernadette SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Lancaster

Address
1325 Wheeling Rd Ne, Lancaster, OH 43130

Kind
Catholic

Students, 2023-24
112

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
9.4

Students per teacher
11.9149

Phone
(740) 654-3137

NCES private school ID
01059621

NCES private school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗
William V. Fisher Catholic High SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Lancaster

Address
1803 Granville Pike, Lancaster, OH 43130

Kind
Catholic

Students, 2023-24
139

Teachers (full-time equivalent)
19.4

Students per teacher
7.16495

Phone
(740) 654-1231

NCES private school ID
01059654

NCES private school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.

Bridges rated poor (3)

E. Sixth Avenue over Fetters RunPoor · built 1964

Condition
Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale

What it is
Bridge

Built
1964

Length
16 ft

Owner
City

Vehicles a day
9,364

Coordinates
39.71927, -82.58241

National Bridge Inventory (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Gre-22 Camp Ground over T Hocking Rv(camp GroundPoor · built 1985

Condition
Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale

What it is
Bridge

Built
1985

Length
7 ft

Owner
County

Vehicles a day
9,964

Coordinates
39.73975, -82.66601

National Bridge Inventory (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Hoc-04 Boving Road over Bike Path- Boving RdPoor · built 1973

Condition
Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale

What it is
Bridge

Built
1973

Length
14 ft

Owner
County

Vehicles a day
1,211

Coordinates
39.70560, -82.61967

National Bridge Inventory (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025. "Poor" means one major part rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale; it calls for repair, not closing, unless the state posts or closes the bridge.

Public libraries (1)

Fairfield County District LibraryCentral library · Lancaster

Address
219 N. Broad St., Lancaster, OH 43130

What it is
Central library

Library system
Fairfield County District Library

Open
2,860 hours a year, 52 weeks

Building
41,328 sq ft

System's visits, FY2024
188,760

System's loans, FY2024
939,640

People the system serves
103,051

Phone
(740) 653-2745

IMLS Public Libraries Survey (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 (outlets and their systems). Any Ohio resident can get a free card at any Ohio public library.

Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (8)

Aha! A Hand'S On Adventure: A Children'S MuseumChildren's museum · Lancaster

What it is
Children's museum

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71114, -82.62768

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Decorative Arts Center Of OhioArt museum · Lancaster

What it is
Art museum

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71406, -82.60048

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Fairfield Heritage AssociationHistory museum · Lancaster

What it is
History museum

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71524, -82.59947

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Lancaster Campground Historical SocietyHistorical society · Lancaster

What it is
Historical society

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.72862, -82.63477

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Lancaster Firefighters Historical SocietyHistorical society · Lancaster

What it is
Historical society

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71441, -82.56793

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Ohio Glass MuseumHistory museum · Lancaster

What it is
History museum

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71340, -82.60294

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Raymond S. Wilkes GalleryArt museum · Lancaster

What it is
Art museum

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.74484, -82.58537

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Sherman House MuseumMuseum · Lancaster

What it is
Museum

City
Lancaster

Coordinates
39.71406, -82.60048

Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

Source: IMLS Museum Data Files, 2018.

Police stations (2)

Fairfield County Sheriff's OfficeLancaster

Address
345 Lincoln Avenue, Lancaster, OH 43130

Coordinates
39.71452, -82.60773

USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Lancaster Police DepartmentLancaster

Address
130 South Broad Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

Coordinates
39.71279, -82.60168

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.

Public EV charging (5)

Buckeye Nissan1 Level 2 · Lancaster

Address
2480 N Memorial Dr Suite D, Lancaster, OH 43130

Ports
1 Level 2

Plugs
J1772

Network
Non-Networked

Hours
Dealership business hours

Phone
866-213-3970

Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Buckeye Nissan DC fast2 DC fast · Lancaster

Address
2480 N Memorial Dr Suite D, Lancaster, OH 43130

Ports
2 DC fast

Plugs
CCS, CHAdeMO

Network
IN_CHARGE

Hours
Dealership business hours

Phone
866-213-3970

Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
LANCASTEROH DC FAST 1 DC fast1 DC fast · Lancaster

Address
135 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, OH 43130

Ports
1 DC fast

Plugs
CCS, CHAdeMO

Network
ChargePoint Network

Hours
24 hours daily

Phone
888-758-4389

Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
SCP NORTH LOT4 Level 2 · Lancaster

Address
720 Mill Park Dr, Lancaster, OH 43130

Ports
4 Level 2

Plugs
J1772

Network
ChargePoint Network

Hours
24 hours daily

Phone
888-758-4389

Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
THE BEND VC BEND EV14 Level 2 · Lancaster

Address
1541 Timbertop St, Lancaster, OH 43130

Ports
4 Level 2

Plugs
J1772

Network
ChargePoint Network

Hours
24 hours daily

Phone
888-758-4389

Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list (May 2026), public and open stations, the posts at one address counted as one site.

Superfund sites (1)

Fairfield Heritage Museum Mercury ReleaseSuperfund program · Lancaster

Address
105 E Wheeling St., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
-- Not Defined -- County

Status
Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List

EPA program ID
OHN000522272

EPA registry ID
110072166965

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS) and National Priorities List sites. Many program sites were assessed and needed no cleanup.

Facilities reporting toxic releases (18)

3 Sigma LlcToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
3165 Wilson Rd Nw, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130KRSLH3165W

EPA registry ID
110000381989

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Anchor Acquisition LlcToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
1115 West Fifth Avenue, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130NCHRH1115W

EPA registry ID
110000382005

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Bailey CorporationToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
2109 Commerce St., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130PRMXM2109C

EPA registry ID
110000382032

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Cirba Solutions Us, IncToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
265 Quarry Rd, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)

EPA program ID
43130TXCNC265QU

EPA registry ID
110009668243

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Crown Cork and SealToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
940 Mill Park Dr., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130NCHRHMILLP

EPA registry ID
110000382014

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Diamond Power International IncToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
2600 E Main St, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130DMNDP2600E

EPA registry ID
110000381961

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Fairfield Core and RecyclingToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
223 Wiley Ave, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory

EPA program ID
TRI_OFFSITE_748

EPA registry ID
110070691526

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Hexcel CompositesToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
815 Lawrence St., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (closed)

EPA program ID
43130HXCLC815LA

EPA registry ID
110000381970

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Lancaster Electro PlatingToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
212 Pierce Ave., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130LNCST212PI

EPA registry ID
110000381998

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Lancaster Electro Plating IncToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
316-318 Sylvan Ave., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (closed)

EPA program ID
43130LNCST31631

EPA registry ID
110000745702

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Lancaster Glass Corporation *Toxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
240 West Main Street, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130LNCST240WE

EPA registry ID
110000746747

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
National Meter IncToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
240 Baldwin Dr., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130NTNLMBALDW

EPA registry ID
110000382023

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Omni Oxide Corp Ohio Oxide DivToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
2161 Commerce St., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130XDCHM2161C

EPA registry ID
110000382050

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Ross Cast MetalsToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
910 Ety Rd., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (closed)

EPA program ID
43130RSSCS910ET

EPA registry ID
110000382041

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Sand Casting TechsToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
910 Edy Rd., Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130SNDCS910ED

EPA registry ID
110002109138

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Sonoco Products CoToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
831 South Memorial Drive, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130SNCXX831SM

EPA registry ID
110001623146

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Treehouse Private Brands, Inc.Toxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
276 Bremen Road, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130RLSTN276BR

EPA registry ID
110001623191

EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Westerman IncToxics Release Inventory · Lancaster

Address
2118 Commerce St, Lancaster, OH 43130

County
Fairfield County

Status
Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)

EPA program ID
43130WSTRM2118C

EPA registry ID
110009490185

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 (17)

Oil Transformer Non Pcb2025-07-31 · Lancaster

Reported
2025-07-31

What spilled
Oil Transformer Non Pcb

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2507EPA0001290

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Fuel Jet / Kerosene (All)2024-08-07 · Lancaster

Reported
2024-08-07

What spilled
Fuel Jet / Kerosene (All)

Largest amount reported
15 gallons

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2408EPA0001365

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2024-06-17 · Lancaster

Reported
2024-06-17

What spilled
Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)

Largest amount reported
25 gallons

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2406EPA0001019

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Fuel Jet / Kerosene (All) Reached water2024-05-02 · Lancaster

Reported
2024-05-02

What spilled
Fuel Jet / Kerosene (All)

Reached a waterway
23 - Hocking River

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2405EPA0000728

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Lead (Pb)2024-04-16 · Lancaster

Reported
2024-04-16

What spilled
Lead (Pb)

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2404EPA0000629

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2024-03-29 · Lancaster

Reported
2024-03-29

What spilled
Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc

Largest amount reported
3 gallons

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2403EPA0000492

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Oil Transformer Non Pcb2023-12-29 · Lancaster

Reported
2023-12-29

What spilled
Oil Transformer Non Pcb

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2312EPA0002103

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Battery Acid (Dilute Sulfuric)2022-09-12 · Lancaster

Reported
2022-09-12

What spilled
Battery Acid (Dilute Sulfuric)

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2209EPA0001393

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Oil Crude2022-04-24 · Lancaster

Reported
2022-04-24

What spilled
Oil Crude

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2204EPA0000572

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Oil Petroleum Not Otherwise Specified (Nos)2021-06-30 · Lancaster

Reported
2021-06-30

What spilled
Oil Petroleum Not Otherwise Specified (Nos)

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2106EPA0000959

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Material Green Reached water2021-05-23 · Lancaster

Reported
2021-05-23

What spilled
Material Green

Reached a waterway
23 - Fetters Run

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2105EPA0000722

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle2021-02-26 · Lancaster

Reported
2021-02-26

What spilled
Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle

Largest amount reported
2 gallons

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2102EPA0000251

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Foam2026-05-25 · Lancaster

Reported
2026-05-25

What spilled
Foam

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2605EPA0000889

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Mercury / Quicksilver (Hg)2026-04-07 · Pleasant Twp

Reported
2026-04-07

What spilled
Mercury / Quicksilver (Hg)

Where
Pleasant Twp, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2604EPA0000583

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Sewage Sludge / Biosolids2026-03-09 · Lancaster

Reported
2026-03-09

What spilled
Sewage Sludge / Biosolids

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2603EPA0000338

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Waste Water Reached water2026-03-04 · Lancaster

Reported
2026-03-04

What spilled
Waste Water

Reached a waterway
23 - Hocking River

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2603EPA0000288

Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Fish Kill2026-02-20 · Lancaster

Reported
2026-02-20

What spilled
Fish Kill

Where
Lancaster, Fairfield County

Ohio EPA district office
CDO

Ohio EPA case number
2602EPA0000217

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 Lancaster, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

The ZIP codes serving Lancaster
ZIP	Share	Water	Radon	Home value	Schools	Flood
43130 Lancaster	65%	North Water Treatment Plant, a new 9.3 MGD firm-capacity reverse-osmosis plant reported in service 2026, which replaced the retired approximately 1925 Miller Park Water Plant. Draws on the Miller Park well field (12 wells), used since 1932, in Miller Park along N. Memorial Drive north of downtown Lancaster.	8.5 pCi/L average radon	Median year built 1963	Lancaster City · 3.5 stars overall	6.2% of residents in the 1% floodplain

Local government

How its elections and ballot issues came out and the state auditor's record.

Ballot issues

Date	Issue	For	Against	Result
2022-05-03	Issue: Lancaster City Council-at-Large Resolution	2,810	1,840	Passed (60.43% for)

Elections for office

Date	Office	Candidates and votes
2023-11-07	Treasurer	Tom Stoughton (REP) 8,265, 100.0%
2023-11-07	President of Council	Jeffrey D. Porter (REP) 8,069, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Member of Council (Ward 6)	Becky Tener (REP) 983, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Member of Council (Ward 5)	Matt Nihiser (REP) 909, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Member of Council (Ward 4)	Larry E. Ailes (REP) 1,586, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Member of Council (Ward 2)	Joe Bizjak (REP) 1,443, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Member of Council (Ward 1)	Presten Ahlers (REP) 1,376, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Mayor	Don G. McDaniel (REP) 8,449, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Director of Law	Stephanie L. Hall (REP) 8,125, 100.0%
2023-11-07	Council at Large	Melody Arent Bobbitt 4,694, 15.16%; Alayna Hoop (REP) 5,594, 18.07%; Corey Schoonover (REP) 6,310, 20.38%; Tracy L. Virgin 2,694, 8.7%; Michael Wing (REP) 5,517, 17.82%; Bob Wolfinger (REP) 6,153, 19.87%
2023-11-07	Auditor	Tricia Nettles (REP) 8,088, 100.0%

Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked. The county's results on file run through 2023-11-07; later elections are not loaded yet.

Auditor of State record

No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
Financial Health Indicators (the Auditor of State's 17 measures; critical / cautionary / positive): 2020 0 / 0 / 17; 2021 0 / 1 / 16; 2022 0 / 0 / 16; 2023 0 / 0 / 16; 2024 0 / 1 / 15; 2025 0 / 0 / 15.
Financial Audit, 2024, released 2025-12-30
Financial Audit, 2023, released 2024-08-20

On the November 3, 2026 ballot

Statewide question: State Issue 3: Voter ID

Races, candidates and every question for an address: your ballot. County offices and judges are on your county board's sample ballot.

The county

Fairfield County: 13 ZIP codes, 27 cities, villages and townships with pages here, 169,752 people (Census Bureau estimate, July 2025).

Nearby places

Pleasant Township, Fairfield County Hocking Township, Fairfield County Berne Township, Fairfield County Greenfield Township, Fairfield County Bloom Township, Fairfield County Madison Township, Fairfield County Amanda Township, Fairfield County Rushcreek Township, Fairfield County

Rain and snow

How much has actually fallen on Lancaster, day by day, from 1893 to now. Daily totals, not averages.

rain, last 30 days: 0.65 in; 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30

rain so far in 2026: 40.3 in; 5.1 in above normal for the date

snow so far in 2026: 16.1 in; a normal year brings 12.3 in

a normal year: 41.2 in; average of 29 years, 1991-2020

The last twelve months
Month	Rain (in)	Snow (in)	Days counted
October 2026	0.65	—	30
September 2026	6.31	—	30
August 2026	8.88	—	31
July 2026	2.90	—	31
June 2026	2.74	—	30
May 2026	4.50	—	31
April 2026	4.42	—	30
March 2026	6.94	1.3	31
February 2026	1.12	2.8	28
January 2026	1.87	11.9	31
December 2025	2.12	8.1	31
November 2025	2.62	2.4	30

On the record, 1893–2026
Wettest year	1935 — 57.5 in
Driest year	1930 — 23.7 in
Wettest day on record	13 September 1938 — 5.40 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day	5 April 1987 — 12.99 in
Deepest snow on the ground	29 November 1950 — 25.00 in

Almost every day here is a measurement: 94% of them come from a rain gauge standing inside Lancaster itself.

48,056 days of records, 1893-01-01 to 2026-10-30. Source: NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, 3,240 gauges in and around Ohio. A day is "gauged" when a gauge standing inside the boundary reported it, and the value is the mean of those gauges. Otherwise it is interpolated by inverse distance from every gauge reporting within 50 miles. Nothing is carried forward, back-filled or smoothed. Against NOAA nClimDiv county monthly precipitation over 136,848 complete county-months (checked 2026-11-01): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-11-01 from the Cracked Buckeye precipitation archive. Snow is the softer number — snowfall is measured by hand with a ruler, no agency publishes a gridded county snowfall series, and blowing snow defeats every observer.

Environmental permits and filings

What Ohio EPA has on file for Lancaster: permits, inspections, violations, cleanups and the state loans behind sewer and water work. Every line links to the agency's own document.

facilities and sites on file: 277; those placed on the map inside Lancaster

What kind of permits
Program	Facilities and sites
Wastewater and stormwater discharge	87
Hazardous waste	41
Voluntary cleanup	29
Sewer and water-line construction	26
State sewer loans	22
Air pollution	20
Site assessment	15
Contaminated-site cleanup	10
Wetland and stream fill	7
Public drinking water	5
Brownfield	2
Composting	2
7 smaller programs

The latest filings
Date	Facility or site	What
Oct 5, 2026	FETTERS RUN IMPROVEMENTS STREAM BANK STABILIZATION	Wetland and stream fill permit
Oct 2, 2026	BLACKHORSE ENERGY-LANCASTER BULK	Voluntary cleanup inspection
Sep 28, 2026	FORMER FAIRFIELD SHOE FACTORY	Underground injection wells violation resolved
Sep 25, 2026	FORMER FAIRFIELD SHOE FACTORY	Underground injection wells violation resolved
Sep 24, 2026	BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH PWS	Public drinking water notice of violation
Sep 23, 2026	LANCASTER WPCF	Wastewater and stormwater discharge report
Sep 16, 2026	THE OVERLOOK SECTION 3	Wetland and stream fill permit
Sep 15, 2026	CITADEL CONSTRUCTION GROUP	Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
Sep 14, 2026	FORMER FAIRFIELD SHOE FACTORY	Underground injection wells notice of violation
Sep 14, 2026	LANCASTER WPCF	Wastewater and stormwater discharge report
Sep 14, 2026	CREEKSIDE ESTATES	Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
Sep 11, 2026	RELIABLE MANUFACTURING GROUP INC	Air pollution permit
Sep 11, 2026	THE OVERLOOK SECTION 3	Wetland and stream fill permit
Sep 10, 2026	FETTERS RUN EROSION CONTROL	Wetland and stream fill permit
Sep 9, 2026	FAIRFIELD COUNTY WPCLF HSTS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM	State sewer loans
Sep 9, 2026	THE OVERLOOK SECTION 3 & 4	Sewer and water-line construction permit
Sep 8, 2026	THE OVERLOOK SECTION 3 & 4	Sewer and water-line construction permit
Sep 8, 2026	LANCASTER CITY PWS	Public drinking water plan
Sep 4, 2026	THE OVERLOOK SECTION 3	Wetland and stream fill permit
Sep 4, 2026	CULVER'S-LANCASTER	Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
Sep 4, 2026	NORTH WATER TREATMENT PLANT	Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
Sep 3, 2026	PRIMAX SUN AUTO LANCASTER	Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
Sep 3, 2026	FETTERS RUN IMPROVEMENTS STREAM BANK STABILIZATION	Wetland and stream fill permit
Sep 2, 2026	FETTERS RUN EROSION CONTROL	Wetland and stream fill permit
Sep 2, 2026	FETTERS RUN IMPROVEMENTS STREAM BANK STABILIZATION	Wetland and stream fill permit

Source: Ohio EPA eDocument portal (edocpub.epa.ohio.gov), indexed 2026-10-14. Facilities are placed on the map from Ohio EPA's own map layers, EPA's Facility Registry, coordinates written in the filings, or a geocoded street address. A permit filed under a private person's name (most are household septic systems) is counted but never named, placed or linked; licenses for individual workers and open-burning notices are left out entirely.

Quick answers

What county is Lancaster, Ohio in?

Lancaster is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, with 40,595 residents.

When was Lancaster, Ohio founded?

Lancaster was settled 1798 (Captain Joseph Hunter builds a cabin at 'Hunter's Settlement' on Zane's Trace, on the prairie just west of the Hocking River crossing, in April 1798); laid out 1800 (Ebenezer Zane lays out and sells the first lots that fall; the plat was substantially complete by spring 1801); incorporated 1831 as an incorporated village; became a city of the third class in 1851. Founders on record: Ebenezer Zane, proprietor of the section of land at the Hocking crossing. Source

How did Lancaster, Ohio get its name?

The town was first called New Lancaster, in compliment to the many early settlers, including the influential Emanuel Carpenter family, who had emigrated from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Source

What ZIP code is Lancaster, Ohio?

Most of Lancaster is in ZIP code 43130.

Where does Lancaster, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Lancaster (Lancaster City): North Water Treatment Plant, a new 9.3 MGD firm-capacity reverse-osmosis plant reported in service 2026, which replaced the retired approximately 1925 Miller Park Water Plant. Draws on the Miller Park well field (12 wells), used since 1932, in Miller Park along N. Memorial Drive north of downtown Lancaster.

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