Lexington Township, Stark County

Township · Stark County · 4,925 residents

Stark County

Local events in Lexington Township, Stark County

Lexington Township itself has 1 event posted in the next 90 days; the others here are within 10 miles. All local events in Lexington Township, Stark County

  1. Black Out at Fortress of Fear Haunted ScreamPark

    7:30 to 11 p.m. · Fortress of Fear Haunted ScreamPark, Alliance · From Visit Canton (Canton/Stark County CVB)

  2. You're Such a Card

    3 to 4 p.m. · Sebring · Sebring · 5.2 mi · From Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County

Checked October 20; the events page is refreshed daily.

Lakes near Lexington Township, Stark County

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How Lexington Township, Stark County began

Lexington Township, in the northeast corner of Stark County on the Mahoning River, was settled in 1805-06 by Quaker families, among them Amos Holloway, Zaccheus Stanton, Nathan Gaskill, John Grant, David Berry and Jesse Feltz. Holloway and Gaskill laid out the town of Lexington in 1807 and named it for the Massachusetts battlefield; the later towns of Williamsport, Freedom and Mount Union grew up in the same township, and Williamsport and Freedom were later merged into Alliance (1854). The township's population passed 29,000 in 1960 while it still counted Alliance, then fell to under 6,000 in 1970 when the city was counted separately; the 2020 census recorded 4,925, with Limaville and Bolton as its unincorporated communities.

Settled 1805-06, platted 1807 (town of Lexington), by Quaker families including Amos Holloway, Zaccheus Stanton, Nathan Gaskill, John Grant, David Berry and Jesse Feltz.

Where the name comes from

No source consulted gives a specific naming account for Lexington Township. It is the only Lexington Township in Ohio.

Before the town

No Native American village, mound, or treaty site specific to Lexington Township is documented in the sources consulted. The township lies in the area of Stark County ceded by the Treaty of Greenville (1795).

Nations recorded here: Lenape (Delaware).

Timeline

  1. — Quaker families, among them Amos Holloway, Zaccheus Stanton, Nathan Gaskill, John Grant, David Berry and Jesse Feltz, begin settling the township (Perrin dates the settlement 1805-06).
  2. — The town of Lexington is surveyed into lots by proprietors Amos Holloway and Nathan Gaskill and named for the Massachusetts battle site of 1775; the survey reserves docks and wharves along the Mahoning, which the legislature had declared a public highway of commerce.
  3. — The township's first post office opens on the Deerfield-to-Canton road three-quarters of a mile west of Lexington at the house of Jesse Feltz, with a weekly mail carried on horseback; his son Shadrach Feltz later had charge of it for nearly twelve years.
  4. — Johnson & Pennock build a grist and saw mill on the Mahoning at Williamsport, later steam-powered and run by Kirk & Co.; in the same period Bryan Elliot builds a mill on Deer Creek west of Limaville that Perrin says ran continuously for decades.
  5. — The township's population is recorded at 539 residents.
  6. — Williamsport is laid out about twenty years after Lexington, as a suburb of that town; Freedom follows about 1828 and Mount Union about 1830, by Perrin's count of years after 1807.
  7. — The township's economy includes three gristmills, seven sawmills, a tannery, and four stores.
  8. — The census counts 1,640 residents in the township, up from 869 in 1830.
  9. — A post office is established at Freedom, with David G. Hester as first postmaster; its first quarter's receipts were $17, against more than $1,800 a quarter by 1881.
  10. — A colony of about 200 Black residents, mostly fugitives and freedmen from Virginia, has a church called Christ's Disciples east of Williamsport; the township counts only 30 Black residents in 1850, 157 in 1860 and 201 in 1870 as the settlement breaks up.
  11. — Alliance is founded from the merger of Williamsport, Freedom, and Liberty at a railroad junction within what had been Lexington Township's territory.
  12. — The township's population reaches 5,700, roughly tenfold its 1820 count.
  13. — The census counts 16,700 residents in Lexington Township, then still including most of the Alliance area, up from 10,325 in 1900.
  14. — Lexington Township's population peaks at 29,074 residents.
  15. — The township's population drops 79.4 percent to 5,975 as Alliance's separate incorporation removes most of its urbanized population from the township count.
  16. — The census counts 4,925 residents in the township, whose unincorporated communities are Limaville and Bolton.

Stories

A township's population halved by its own city

Lexington Township's population chart tells an unusual story for a rural Ohio township: it climbed steadily for a century and a half, peaking at 29,074 residents in 1960, then collapsed by nearly 80 percent to just 5,975 within a single decade. The cause was not decline but definition -- Alliance, the railroad city that had grown up inside the township's boundaries since its 1854 founding, formalized its own separate city government and statistical boundaries around 1970, taking most of the built-up population the township had counted for decades along with it. What remained was Lexington Township's older identity: a milling and farming community, the only one bearing that name anywhere in Ohio, whose 1833 tally of three gristmills, seven sawmills, and four stores had once made it one of the county's more developed rural districts in its own right.

A Quaker town laid out for a river

Amos Holloway came from Loudoun County, Virginia, entered the land that became the site of Lexington, and with Nathan Gaskill was its proprietor when it was surveyed in 1807. They named it for the Massachusetts village where the Revolution's first shots were fired. The Ohio legislature had declared the Mahoning a public highway of commerce, so the plat set aside room for docks and wharves, and Perrin's county history says the founders imagined masts and exports at the waterfront. What the town actually had, Perrin records, was a tavern, a store, a Friends' meeting-house, a school and, from 1811, a weekly post office that served a wide district. The river never made the town a port: Mount Union, Williamsport and Freedom were laid out later and drew the traffic, and the Mahoning's freshets washed away the first mill built on it, a grist and saw mill south of Lexington put up by Aaron Stratton.

The settlement east of Williamsport

About a mile east of Williamsport, on the north bank of the Mahoning, a community of roughly 200 Black residents, mostly fugitives and freedmen from Virginia, kept a church that members called Christ's Disciples. Perrin's county history calls them orderly, industrious and esteemed citizens and names the preachers T. Price, Roland Bracy and R. Hamlin. Two fugitives were recaptured from the settlement and returned to slavery, and many residents moved on to Logan County, Ohio, and to Lower Canada. Federal counts in the township show 30 Black residents in 1850, 157 in 1860 and 201 in 1870, most of the later number living in the Alliance precinct. By 1881 the church and settlement were broken up, and all that remained was a narrow strip of burying ground beside the road, overgrown with brambles.

Photographs

Locator map of Lexington Township within Stark County
Locator map of Lexington Township within Stark County (2015)
Photo: Ruhrfisch and Nyttend, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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

Historic places

1 place in Lexington Township, Stark County on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

  1. Science Hill SchoolBuilding · Alliance · listed 1994
    Address
    11810 Beeson St.
    Where
    Alliance, Stark County · ZIP 44601
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1994
    NRIS reference number
    94000776
    Coordinates
    40.92349, -81.17369

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file. The listing year is shown where NPS's certification date agrees with the listing's reference number. Listing recognizes significance; it does not restrict a private owner.

Every historic place in Stark County on the full map

Water

Mostly private wells The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Lexington Township, Stark County's boundary: 2 nursing homes, 2 fire and EMS stations, 1 high-hazard dam, 3 public schools, 1 museum, 1 public charging site, 2 shale and injection wells, 5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 9 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Nursing homes (2)

  1. Altercare of Alliance Ctr for Rehab & Nc Inc3 of 5 stars · Alliance
    Address
    11750 Klinger Avenue Ne, Alliance, OH 44601
    Certified beds
    96
    Residents on an average day
    68
    Medicare overall rating
    3 of 5 stars
    Health inspections
    3 of 5 stars
    Staffing
    1 of 5 stars
    Quality measures
    5 of 5 stars
    Penalties since 2023
    none
    Ownership
    For profit - Corporation
    Chain
    ALTERCARE
    Takes
    Medicare and Medicaid
    Phone
    (330) 823-8263
    Medicare ID
    365402
  2. Roselawn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation5 of 5 stars · Alliance
    Address
    11999 Klinger Avenue Ne, Alliance, OH 44601
    Certified beds
    44
    Residents on an average day
    41
    Medicare overall rating
    5 of 5 stars
    Health inspections
    4 of 5 stars
    Staffing
    2 of 5 stars
    Quality measures
    5 of 5 stars
    Penalties since 2023
    none
    Ownership
    For profit - Corporation
    Chain
    HILLSTONE HEALTHCARE
    Takes
    Medicare and Medicaid
    Phone
    (330) 823-0618
    Medicare ID
    366231

Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files; Medicare star ratings run 1 to 5.

Fire and EMS stations (2)

  1. Lexington Township Fire Department Station 1Alliance
    Address
    14555 Gaskill Drive Northeast, Alliance, OH 44601
    Coordinates
    40.94259, -81.11975
  2. Lexington Township Fire Department Station 2Alliance
    Address
    11700 Rockhill Avenue Northeast, Alliance, OH 44601
    Coordinates
    40.94110, -81.11430

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.

High-hazard dams (1)

  1. Dale Walborn Reservoir Dam PoorDeer Creek · condition: poor
    Hazard class
    High: a failure would probably cost a life
    Condition
    Poor (assessed 12/12/2022)
    River or stream
    Deer Creek
    Purpose
    Water Supply
    Type
    Earth
    Height
    37 ft
    Storage
    13,513 acre-feet
    Completed
    1971
    Owner type
    Local Government
    County
    Stark County
    Nearest town (NID)
    Limaville
    Last inspection
    11/17/2021
    Emergency action plan
    Yes
    NID ID
    OH00241

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)

  1. Lexington Elementary School3.5 of 5 stars · Alliance
    Address
    12333 Atwater Ave NE, Alliance, OH 44601
    School district
    Marlington Local School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    319
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    16
    Report card, 2025-26
    3.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    80%
    Ohio building IRN
    020230
    NCES school ID
    390498803730
  2. Marlington High School4 of 5 stars · Alliance
    Address
    10450 Moulin Ave NE, Alliance, OH 44601
    School district
    Marlington Local School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    707
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    36.6
    Report card, 2025-26
    4 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    82.2%
    Four-year graduation rate
    95.6%
    Ohio building IRN
    022947
    NCES school ID
    390498803732
  3. Marlington Middle School4 of 5 stars · Alliance
    Address
    10325 Moulin Ave NE, Alliance, OH 44601
    School district
    Marlington Local School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    394
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    24.6
    Report card, 2025-26
    4 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    75.9%
    Ohio building IRN
    061820
    NCES school ID
    390498803733

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.

Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)

  1. Science Hill Historical SocietyHistorical society · Alliance
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Alliance
    Coordinates
    40.93406, -81.17279

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

Source: IMLS Museum Data Files, 2018.

Public EV charging (1)

  1. Steel Equipment Specialists - Tesla Destination6 Level 2 · Alliance
    Address
    1507 Beeson St NE, Alliance, OH 44601
    Ports
    6 Level 2
    Plugs
    Tesla (NACS)
    Network
    Tesla Destination
    Phone
    877-798-3752

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

Shale and injection wells (2)

  1. Barber Unit {Swiw#17} 1 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
    What it is
    Injection well (Class II)
    Operator
    Ows Acquisition Co Llc
    County
    Stark County
    API well number
    34151238770000
    Coordinates
    40.97238, -81.09395
  2. Patricia S. Barber Unit {Swiw#19} 2 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
    What it is
    Injection well (Class II)
    Operator
    Ows Acquisition Co Llc
    County
    Stark County
    API well number
    34151243520000
    Coordinates
    40.97236, -81.10355

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 (5)

  1. Damon Industries IncToxics Release Inventory · Alliance
    Address
    12435 Rockhill Ne, Alliance, OH 44601
    County
    Stark County County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)
    EPA program ID
    44601DMNCH12435
    EPA registry ID
    110000390210
  2. GmiToxics Release Inventory · Alliance
    Address
    12241 Rockhill Avenue Northeast, Alliance, OH 44601
    County
    Stark County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44601XXXGM12241
    EPA registry ID
    110000823529
  3. Gnw Aluminum IncToxics Release Inventory · Alliance
    Address
    1356 Harrisburg Rd, Alliance, OH 44601
    County
    Stark County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44601GNWLM1356H
    EPA registry ID
    110006272522
  4. Tpi Abrasives Llc (1576000070)Toxics Release Inventory · Alliance
    Address
    16123 Armour St., Alliance, OH 44601
    County
    Stark County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44601SMRCN16123
    EPA registry ID
    110000390247
  5. Tri-Seal Llc (1576001602)Toxics Release Inventory · Alliance
    Address
    16125 Armour Street Northeast, Alliance, OH 44601
    County
    Stark County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44601SNCPL16123
    EPA registry ID
    110000390256

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 (9)

  1. Oil Petroleum Not Otherwise Specified (Nos) Reached water2025-10-15 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2025-10-15
    What spilled
    Oil Petroleum Not Otherwise Specified (Nos)
    Reached a waterway
    76 - Deer Creek
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2510EPA0001711
  2. Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)2024-01-30 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2024-01-30
    What spilled
    Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)
    Largest amount reported
    30 gallons
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2401EPA0000159
  3. Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)2023-12-11 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2023-12-11
    What spilled
    Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)
    Largest amount reported
    40 gallons
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2312EPA0002041
  4. Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2023-04-08 · Limaville
    Reported
    2023-04-08
    What spilled
    Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
    Where
    Limaville, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2304EPA0000537
  5. Chemical(S) Unk Reached water2022-03-25 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2022-03-25
    What spilled
    Chemical(S) Unk
    Largest amount reported
    500 gallons
    Reached a waterway
    76 - Beech Creek
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2203EPA0000417
  6. Material Unknown2021-11-10 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2021-11-10
    What spilled
    Material Unknown
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2111EPA0001722
  7. Aluminum Sulfate (Al2(So4)3)2021-07-02 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2021-07-02
    What spilled
    Aluminum Sulfate (Al2(So4)3)
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2107EPA0000985
  8. Oil Transformer Non Pcb2026-06-14 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2026-06-14
    What spilled
    Oil Transformer Non Pcb
    Largest amount reported
    15 gallons
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2606EPA0001061
  9. Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2026-05-20 · Lexington Twp
    Reported
    2026-05-20
    What spilled
    Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
    Reached a waterway
    76 - Mahoning River
    Where
    Lexington Twp, Stark County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2605EPA0000854

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 Lexington Township, Stark 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 Lexington Township, Stark County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.

Who holds office

OfficeNamePartyTerm endsContact
TrusteeJerry Edward MoffettR2027-12-31 330-206-3685
11956 Snode St. NE Alliance 44601
TrusteeDaniel J. MooreR2029-12-31 330-495-6255
11961 Aebi Ave. NE Alliance 44601
TrusteeMike PauliR2029-12-31 330-428-0451
12435 Edison St. NE Alliance 44601
Fiscal OfficerJill McNeilR2028-03-31 330-823-6830
13116 Snode St. NE Alliance 44601

Roster as of 2026-08-12: county board of elections.

Money issues on the ballot since 2015: 16 of 20 passed; of those asking for new or higher taxes, 1 of 3.

Ballot issues

DateIssueForAgainstResult
2025-11-04 Issue: Lexington Township - Roads 694333Passed (67.58% for)
2025-11-04 Issue: Lexington Township - Police (2.9 mills) 616400Passed (60.63% for)
2025-11-04 Issue: Lexington Township - Police (1 mill) 624394Passed (61.3% for)
2024-11-05 Issue: Lexington Township 1,614841Passed (65.74% for)
2024-03-19 Issue: Lexington Township, Roads 445572Failed (43.76% for)
2023-11-07 Issue: Lexington Township (Roads) 1,108548Passed (66.91% for)
2023-11-07 Issue: Lexington Township (Police) 1,034592Passed (63.59% for)
2023-11-07 Issue: Lexington Township (Roads, Additional) 753883Failed (46.03% for)
2022-11-08 Issue: Lexington Township 1,188626Passed (65.49% for)
2020-11-03 Issue: Lexington Twp. Fire District, Renewal 1,816712Passed (71.84% for)
2020-11-03 Issue: Lexington Twp. Police Levy, Renewal, 2.9 mills 1,511987Passed (60.49% for)
2020-11-03 Issue: Lexington Twp. Police Levy, Renewal, 1 mill 1,552935Passed (62.4% for)
2020-11-03 Issue: Lexington Township, Road Levy 1,732787Passed (68.76% for)
2018-11-06 Issue: Lexington Township Fire District 1,494562Passed (72.67% for)
2018-11-06 Issue: Lexington Township, Police 1,360693Passed (66.24% for)
2018-05-08 Issue: Lexington Township, Current Expenses 444441Passed (50.17% for)
2017-11-07 Issue: Lexington Twp Current Expenses 585586Failed (49.96% for)
2016-11-08 Issue: Lexington Township Fire District 1,680628Passed (72.79% for)
2016-03-15 Issue: Lexington Township Police Levy 817639Passed (56.11% for)
2015-11-03 Issue: Lexington Twp Roads 986563Passed (63.65% for)
2015-11-03 Issue: Lexington Twp Police, replacement 906633Passed (58.87% for)
2015-11-03 Issue: Lexington Twp Police, additional 694849Failed (44.98% for)

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2025-11-04 Trustee Victoria Brock 172, 9.3%; Tammera Davis 239, 12.93%; Daniel J. Moore 474, 25.64%; Mike Pauli 720, 38.94%; Bart Stuchell 244, 13.2%
2023-11-07 Trustee Guy E. Aumend 556, 38.4%; Jerry Edward Moffett 892, 61.6%
2023-11-07 Fiscal Officer Jill McNeil 1,283, 100.0%
2021-11-02 Trustee (number of seats not on file, so winners are not marked) Guy E. Aumend 256, 14.49%; Daniel Moore 658, 37.24%; Mike Pauli 853, 48.27%
2019-11-05 Trustee James Mathews 974, 100.0%
2019-11-05 Fiscal Officer Jill McNeil 888, 100.0%
2017-11-07 Trustee Daniel J. Moore 621, 39.63%; Michael K. Pauli 946, 60.37%
2015-11-03 Trustee James Mathews 1,213, 100.0%
2015-11-03 Fiscal Officer Jill M. McNeil 1,103, 100.0%

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

Auditor of State record

Quick answers

What county is Lexington Township, Ohio in?

Lexington Township, Stark County is a township in Stark County, Ohio, with 4,925 residents.

When was Lexington Township, Ohio founded?

Lexington Township, Stark County was settled 1805-06; laid out 1807 (town of Lexington). Founders on record: Quaker families including Amos Holloway, Zaccheus Stanton, Nathan Gaskill, John Grant, David Berry and Jesse Feltz. Source

What ZIP code is Lexington Township, Ohio?

Lexington Township, Stark County is served by ZIP codes 44640 and 44601; 44640 holds the largest share of its residents.

Where does Lexington Township, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Lexington Township, Stark County (Alliance City): Mostly private wells.

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