Local events in Moorefield Township, Clark County
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How Moorefield Township, Clark County began
Moorefield Township, in the north-central part of Clark County, was organized in 1818 and named for Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia), the former home of several of its first settlers. The first white settlers reached the area in 1799, part of a small colony from Kentucky that included the frontiersman Simon Kenton, who cleared land along what became Urbana Pike. The township stayed agricultural through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, and part of the city of Springfield now sits in its southwestern corner. Its best-known surviving landmarks, the Kenton-Hunt Farmhouse and the David Crabill House, both stand on land settled in that first generation.
Settled 1799, incorporated 1818, by Simon Kenton's Kentucky colony (first settlers); organized as a township in June 1818.
Where the name comes from
Named for Moorefield, Virginia (present West Virginia), the town several of the township's first settlers had come from.
Before the town
No mounds, village sites, or named Native American settlements specific to Moorefield Township are recorded. The wider county was Shawnee, Wyandot, Lenape (Delaware), Mingo, and Miami territory before 1795, crossed by trails linking villages such as Old Piqua on the Mad River to points north and west; the 1795 Treaty of Greenville opened the area later organized as Clark County to settlement, which is presumably how land in Moorefield Township became available to Simon Kenton's colony in 1799. No treaty line, cession boundary, or named site within the township itself is recorded.
Timeline
- — First settlers reach the area, a colony of five men with wives and children from Kentucky that included Simon Kenton, making homes along a cleared path that became Urbana Pike.
- — Richard Robinson, James Bishop and Benjamin Cornell, each with fifteen or fourteen children, and the Paige brothers from Kentucky join the first colony; Jarbow's still of about 1800 is probably the first liquor made in the township.
- — James Foley, a Virginian born 1779, settles permanently after selecting land in 1803; he is later one of the first county commissioners, a legislator for two terms and one of the largest landowners in Clark County, dying at the age of 84.
- — Judge John R. Lemon settles in Section 2, and David Crabill and his wife Barbery, from Virginia, settle on Buck Creek and raise twelve children; Silvanus Tuttle, who had come to Ohio in 1800, moves from near Catawba Station.
- — Abraham Yeazell and his wife Mary, with fourteen children, settle in the southeastern part of the township.
- — Rev. Robert Miller, a Methodist preacher born in Maryland in 1767, organizes the Moorefield Methodist society in Judge Daniel McKinnon's log house on Buck Creek; it is called Miller's Church until 1833.
- — Moorefield Township is officially organized in June.
- — In March the township's east boundary is extended one mile; its southern boundary is extended west to Mad River in 1835, giving about thirty-six square miles.
- — David Crabill, an 1808 settler, and his wife have the David Crabill House built east of Springfield; it is a Federal-style frame house adapted to frontier building.
- — The Kenton-Hunt Farmhouse is built at 4690 Urbana Road on the land Simon Kenton first settled in 1799.
- — The first Methodist church, a $600 frame building on ground given by Robert Miller, is built; in 1834 Granville Moody is announced to speak there and flubs his first sermon, and Robert Miller dies in 1834.
- — The Protestant Methodist church is organized and builds its church in Section 15 at a cost of $736; the Methodist Episcopals build a new church in 1859.
- — The Moorefield Baptist church is organized on November 18 with seventeen members at the Union schoolhouse; its 32 by 48 foot church, built for $1,315, is dedicated March 7, 1880 by Rev. E. A. Stone of Urbana.
- — The David Crabill House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (October 10, 1975).
Stories
Simon Kenton's colony on Urbana Pike
In 1799 a small party of five men, with their wives and children, came north out of Kentucky and settled in what would become Moorefield Township. Among them was Simon Kenton, the frontier scout and Kentucky militia officer who had spent years as a captive and adoptee among the Shawnee before returning to fight them, and who had known this stretch of the Mad River country since the 1770s and 1780s campaigns. The party made their first homes along a cleared path through the forest that later became Urbana Pike (State Route 68). Kenton's own holding on the pike passed down through later owners; the brick farmhouse now called the Kenton-Hunt Farmhouse was built on the property in 1828, after Kenton himself had moved on, and still stands at 4690 Urbana Road. The township itself was not formally organized until 1818, nearly two decades after that first colony arrived, once enough settlers had followed to justify a government of its own.
The preacher who said he had failed
Rev. Robert Miller, who had moved from Maryland to Virginia to Kentucky before settling in Moorefield in 1812, was the prime mover of the township's Methodist church. He held meetings first in Judge McKinnon's log house on Buck Creek, built a log house in 1816 with an extra room for services, gave the ground for the church and graveyard and $100, one sixth of the cost, of the first church, split the lath and painted it himself. In 1834, the year after the building was finished, Granville Moody, the 'famous old fighting Methodist', was announced to preach there; having read his text, 'Ye must be born again,' he turned red, muttered that he was sick, and sat down to suppressed laughter. He told a fellow minister that he had made a failure at Moorefield and would never preach again, but the brother talked him out of it. Miller died that year, saying he was going to heaven 'as straight as a shingle.'
Photographs
Photo: Nyttend, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Local history sources: moorefieldtownshipclark.gov · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · archive.org
Historic places
1 place in Moorefield Township, Clark County on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.
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Crabill, David, HouseBuilding · Springfield · listed 1975
- Address
- 5 mi. E of Springfield off OH 4
- Where
- Springfield, Clark County · ZIP 45503
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1975
- NRIS reference number
- 75001341
- Coordinates
- 39.96084, -83.74764
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
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.
Water
Groundwater from 12 wells along Eagle City Road in the Mad River buried-valley aquifer, pumped to the adjacent treatment plant The water here
- Springfield City76% of residentsMad River Buried Valley Aquifer (12 wells)
- Clark County Northridge22% of residentsMad River Buried Valley Aquifer (12 wells)
- Clark County Lawrenceville1% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Chateau Estates MHP0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- North Hampton Village0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Rolling Terrace MHP0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Enon Village0% of residentsGroundwater wells (4 wells)
- Greenlawn Condos0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Moorefield Township, Clark County's boundary: 2 nursing homes, 1 fire or EMS station, 1 high-hazard dam, 2 public schools, 1 private school, 2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 5 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Nursing homes (2)
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Forest Glen Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center4 of 5 stars · Springfield
- Address
- 2150 Montego Drive, Springfield, OH 45503
- Certified beds
- 80
- Residents on an average day
- 70
- Medicare overall rating
- 4 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 4 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 4 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Continuing care retirement community
- Yes
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (937) 390-9913
- Medicare ID
- 366245
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Villa Springfield Rehabilitation and Healthcare Ce2 of 5 stars · Springfield
- Address
- 701 Villa Road, Springfield, OH 45503
- Certified beds
- 110
- Residents on an average day
- 91
- Medicare overall rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 2 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 1 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain
- CROWN HEALTHCARE GROUP
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (937) 399-5551
- Medicare ID
- 365829
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files; Medicare star ratings run 1 to 5.
Fire and EMS stations (1)
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Moorefield Township Fire DepartmentSpringfield
- Address
- 1616 Moorefield Road, Springfield, OH 45503
- Coordinates
- 39.99577, -83.76953
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.
High-hazard dams (1)
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Clarence J. Brown DamBuck Creek · condition: not available
- Hazard class
- High: a failure would probably cost a life
- Condition
- Not Available
- River or stream
- Buck Creek
- Purpose
- Flood Risk Reduction;Other;Recreation
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 98 ft
- Storage
- 63,700 acre-feet
- Completed
- 1973
- Owner type
- Federal
- County
- Clark County
- Nearest town (NID)
- Springfield
- Last inspection
- 06/04/2024
- Emergency action plan
- Yes
- NID ID
- OH00028
National Inventory of Dams record ↗ National Inventory of Dams (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams, August 2026. "High hazard" rates what a failure would cost downstream, not how likely one is; the condition is the state's assessment.
Public schools (2)
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Kenton Ridge Elementary3.5 of 5 stars · Springfield
- Address
- 2250 Montego Dr, Springfield, OH 45503
- School district
- Northeastern Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 1,129
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 45.86
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 79%
- Ohio building IRN
- 061705
- NCES school ID
- 390462502491
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Kenton Ridge Middle/High School3 of 5 stars · Springfield
- Address
- 2250 Montego Dr, Springfield, OH 45503
- School district
- Northeastern Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 844
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 53.92
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 76.8%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 98%
- Ohio building IRN
- 068577
- NCES school ID
- 390462502488
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 (1)
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Nightingale Montessori IncPrivate, nonsectarian, special program · Springfield
- Address
- 2525 N Limestone St, Springfield, OH 45503
- Kind
- nonsectarian, special program
- Students, 2023-24
- 141
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 31.4
- Students per teacher
- 4.49045
- Phone
- (937) 324-0336
- NCES private school ID
- AA890771
Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2)
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Navistar, Inc.Toxics Release Inventory · Springfield
- Address
- 6125 Urbana Rd, Springfield, OH 45502
- County
- Clark County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory
- EPA program ID
- 45502NVSTR6125U
- EPA registry ID
- 110000394957
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Superior Trim Springfield Div (0812100525)Toxics Release Inventory · Springfield
- Address
- 5225 Prosperity Drive, Springfield, OH 45502
- County
- Clark County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)
- EPA program ID
- 45502FNDLY5225P
- EPA registry ID
- 110000823486
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 (5)
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Material White Reached water2025-12-10 · Moorefield Twp
- Reported
- 2025-12-10
- What spilled
- Material White
- Reached a waterway
- 12 - Mad River
- Where
- Moorefield Twp, Clark County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2512EPA0001975
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85) Reached water2024-03-14 · Moorefield Twp
- Reported
- 2024-03-14
- What spilled
- Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Moorefield Twp, Clermont County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2403EPA0000406
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Pcb2023-03-26 · Moorefield Twp
- Reported
- 2023-03-26
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 25 gallons
- Where
- Moorefield Twp, Clark County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2303EPA0000449
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2022-09-18 · Moorefield Twp
- Reported
- 2022-09-18
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Where
- Moorefield Twp, Clark County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2209EPA0001425
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2026-03-13 · Moorefield Twp
- Reported
- 2026-03-13
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Where
- Moorefield Twp, Clark County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2603EPA0000368
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 Moorefield Township, Clark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45503 Springfield | 27% | Groundwater from 12 wells along Eagle City Road in the Mad River buried-valley aquifer, pumped to the adjacent treatment plant | 6.2 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1963 | Springfield City · 2.5 stars overall | 0.4% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 45502 German Township and Springfield | 21% | Mostly private wells | 6.8 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1976 | Northwestern Local · 3.5 stars overall | 1.4% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 45504 Springfield | 1% | Groundwater from 12 wells along Eagle City Road in the Mad River buried-valley aquifer, pumped to the adjacent treatment plant | 4.5 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1949 | Springfield City · 2.5 stars overall | 3.9% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Moorefield Township, Clark County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Money issues on the ballot since 2018: 4 of 4 passed.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-03 | Issue: MOOREFIELD TOWNSHIP | 5,348 | 2,203 | Passed (70.83% for) |
| 2019-11-05 | Issue 1: MFLD TWP - Roads | 1,077 | 410 | Passed (72.43% for) |
| 2019-11-05 | Issue 2: MFLD Twp - Police | 1,040 | 423 | Passed (71.09% for) |
| 2018-11-06 | Issue 10: Moorefield Township Streets | 4,259 | 1,601 | Passed (72.68% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-05 | Township Trustee | Daren J. Cotter 1,195, 100.0% |
| 2019-11-05 | Township Fiscal Officer | Janet L. Dyer 1,242, 100.0% |
Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.
The county
Clark County: 15 ZIP codes, 19 cities, villages and townships, 135,514 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Moorefield Township, Ohio in?
Moorefield Township, Clark County is a township in Clark County, Ohio, with 12,484 residents.
When was Moorefield Township, Ohio founded?
Moorefield Township, Clark County was settled 1799; incorporated 1818. Founders on record: Simon Kenton's Kentucky colony (first settlers); organized as a township in June 1818. Source
How did Moorefield Township, Ohio get its name?
Named for Moorefield, Virginia (present West Virginia), the town several of the township's first settlers had come from. Source
What ZIP code is Moorefield Township, Ohio?
Moorefield Township, Clark County is served by ZIP codes 45503 and 45502; 45503 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Moorefield Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Moorefield Township, Clark County (Springfield City): Groundwater from 12 wells along Eagle City Road in the Mad River buried-valley aquifer, pumped to the adjacent treatment plant.
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