Morgan Township, Knox County

Morgan Township, Knox County

Township · Licking County · 1,018 residents

Licking County

The story

Local history for this place is being researched county by county outward from Franklin County; here is what the records say.

Licking County was organized out of Fairfield County by an act of the Ohio General Assembly passed January 30, 1808, effective March 1, 1808, and named for the Licking River and the salt licks along it that had drawn game, Native travelers and, in 1798, the county's first white settlers. Its seat, Newark, was platted in 1802 by General William C. Schenck at the forks of the Licking, and the county grew around the Ohio and Erie Canal (broken ground at Licking Summit on July 4, 1825), the National Road, its railroads, and industries in glass, stoves, baskets and fiberglass. Licking County holds the richest concentration of Native American earthworks anywhere in Ohio: the Hopewell culture's Newark Earthworks, the largest set of geometric earthen enclosures ever built, whose surviving Octagon and Great Circle were inscribed, together with Flint Ridge's ten-thousand-year-old flint quarries and Granville's Alligator effigy mound nearby, into a landscape that in September 2023 became part of Ohio's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The county has since drawn Denison University, the Dawes Arboretum, Owens Corning's fiberglass works, and, in the twenty-first century, Intel's multi-billion-dollar chip campus on its western edge near New Albany.

Water

Mostly private wells The water here

Utica Village57% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Mount Vernon City41% of residentsBuried Valley Aquifer (Kokosing River valley wells)
Martinsburg Village2% of residentsGroundwater wells (3 wells)
Colonial Terrace Mhc Llc0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Westgate Mobile Home Community0% of residentsBuried Valley Aquifer (Kokosing River valley wells)
Knox County Water and Wastewater0% of residentsGroundwater wells (4 wells)
Grandview MHP A0% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)

Its ZIP codes

Each ZIP code that touches Morgan Township, Knox County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

The ZIP codes serving Morgan Township, Knox County
ZIP	Share	Water	Radon	Home value	Schools	Flood
43080 Utica	13%	Mostly private wells	16.1 pCi/L average radon	Median year built 1972	North Fork Local · 3 stars overall	6.9% of residents in the 1% floodplain
43050 Mount Vernon	1%	Wells drawing groundwater from the buried-valley aquifer along the Kokosing River near Mount Vernon	7.0 pCi/L average radon	Median year built 1956	Mount Vernon City · 4 stars overall	9.8% of residents in the 1% floodplain

The county

Licking County: 17 ZIP codes, 38 cities, villages and townships, 160,939 people.

Nearby places

Utica Mount Vernon Burlington Township, Licking County Washington Township, Licking County Clay Township, Knox County Clinton Township, Knox County Eden Township, Licking County Monroe Township, Knox County Liberty Township, Knox County Bennington Township, Licking County

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