Local events in Munson Township, Geauga County
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How Munson Township, Geauga County began
Munson Township, township eight, range eight of the Connecticut Western Reserve, was first called McDonough, then in 1817 became part of Burlington Township with Claridon, and about 1820 or 1821 took the name Munson, after the Massachusetts town of Monson, home of the settler Elijah Hovey. Samuel Hopson built the first cabin in 1816, Christopher Langdon the first grist-mill in 1818, and Hiram and Milo Fowler a flouring mill in 1831 that gave Fowler's Mills its name. The township was a Democratic and abolitionist stronghold with a name for good-natured lawlessness, 'the State of Munson'. Fowler's Mills Historic District (2002) is on the National Register, and Munson had 7,087 residents in 2020.
Settled 1816 (Samuel Hopson, first cabin), incorporated 1817 (as part of Burlington Township); 1821 (first election as Munson Township), by Samuel Hopson, first settler.
Where the name comes from
The township was first called McDonough by Carey, Hotchkiss & Boone, who bought the south tract not long after the battle of Plattsburgh. In 1820 or 1821, at the raising of Elijah Hovey's frame house, the settlers voted to rename it for Monson, Massachusetts, Hovey's former home, in the spelling Munson; master carpenter Roswell Eaton broke a bottle of whisky on the first bent and declared the township named, 'as on the christening of a newly-launched ship'.
Before the town
No Native village, trail or site specific to Munson Township is recorded in the 1879 county history. The history notes only that three roads crossed the unnamed township before settlement, from Burton to Cleveland, Chardon to Ravenna and Chardon to Chester, without saying whether they followed older trails.
Timeline
- — Samuel Hopson, the conceded first settler of Munson, builds the first cabin in the summer; the township is township 8, range 8 of the Western Reserve.
- — Munson, then called McDonough, and Claridon (Canton) are organized by the county commissioners as the civil township of Burlington; the first birth in the future Munson is a daughter of Lemuel Rider.
- — Christopher Langdon builds the first grist-mill in Munson, on his purchase from the Phelps tract, and adds a sawmill in 1820; Asahel Davis settles on Maple Hill.
- — Asahel Davis marries Anna H., then seventeen, the first marriage in the township; David Hovey teaches the first school in a log cabin south of the center.
- — At the raising of Elijah Hovey's frame house, the first in the township, the settlers vote to name the township Munson, after Hovey's home town of Monson, Massachusetts.
- — The commissioners authorize the first election under the name Munson, held at Thomas Stodder's house, with Samuel Hopson elected justice; first public worship is held that year at Nathan Munn's house.
- — Lemuel Rider collects the waters of several springs into a water power and sets up a grist-mill and carding machine; both are later destroyed by fire.
- — Daniel Hagar of Dorset, Vermont, buys the Langdon mills, which were known as Hager's mill until Judge Bosley rebuilt them in 1840 or 1841.
- — Rev. Joseph A. Peepoon, formerly of Painesville, organizes a small Presbyterian church, which builds a meeting-house in 1831 or 1832; Methodists were planted in 1828 or 1829.
- — Hiram and Milo Fowler, sons of Burton settler Isaac Fowler, settle on lot 17 and begin building a flouring mill that goes into operation about a year later; the 'old red mill' gave Fowler's Mills its name.
- — The first post office opens on the State road just north of Butternut Creek, kept by Jonathan Burnett; a later office at Fowler's Mills has Milo Fowler as its first postmaster.
- — Frederick Douglass speaks in Munson on his first visit to Ohio, and about the same time, which the county history thinks 1845 or 1846, Abby Kelley and S. S. Foster visit, brought by Presbyterian minister Peepoon, a Garrisonian abolitionist.
- — School district No. 2's new schoolhouse is built in the fall at a cost of about $900; No. 4 follows in 1875 at about $1,100, in a township of eight districts and 191 children of school age.
- — Fowler's Mills Historic District, at 10743-10779 and 10750 Mayfield Road and 12426-12533 Fowlers Mill Road, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 29; Pebblebrook Farm House and Gardens on Heath Road follows on February 4, 2011.
Stories
Fowler's Mills, restored on the East Branch
Hiram and Milo Fowler, sons of a Burton pioneer who had come to the Reserve in 1798, settled on lot 17 in 1831 and at once began building a flouring mill on a branch of the Chagrin River; it went into operation about a year later and became the old red mill that gave the place its name. A Mr. Fitch had opened the first store there, and Milo Fowler became the first postmaster of the Fowler's Mills office. The Fowler's Mills Historic District, on Mayfield Road and Fowlers Mill Road, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Hiram, who at 78 claimed to be the oldest man living born on the Western Reserve, outlived his brother Milo, who died about 1860.
Christened with whisky: how Munson got its name
For its first few years the township was McDonough, named by the proprietors who bought the south tract after the battle of Plattsburgh, and in 1817 it was joined to Claridon as Burlington. About 1820 or 1821 the men of the neighborhood, nearly all the male population, gathered to raise the frame of Elijah Hovey's house, the first framed house in the township, on the Munson and Chester road. Hovey had come from Monson, Massachusetts, and the crowd voted to name the township for it, spelling it Munson. When the first bent went up, the master carpenter, Captain Roswell Eaton, broke a bottle of whisky on it as at the launching of a ship and declared the township named Munson, to cheers and whisky from the crowd below.
The State of Munson
Munson, among the later-settled townships, earned a reputation for good-natured lawlessness in its early years, when it was called 'the State of Munson'. The county history credits it to the Hazen family: Thomas Hazen, a giant of a man who came from Vermont in 1822 with six or seven stalwart sons, and neighbors like the Lusks. Their rough humor and the township's steady Democratic vote, which held until the party break of 1848 except for a Whig majority of one in 1840, did not stop Munson from hearing Frederick Douglass and Abby Kelley, brought by the township's abolitionist minister. The same history recalls the rattlesnakes of the sand hill west of Fowler's Mills, where in 1829 women picking berries on Hopson's farm saw one go into a log and men killed nine large ones and enough young to make seventy.
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · archive.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
Water
Mostly private wells The water here
- Chardon City80% of residentsGroundwater wells (6 wells)
- Leaders MHP9% of residentsGroundwater wells (5 wells)
- Jacques Mobile Home Park, Llc4% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Geauga County Services Center2% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Kimberly Estates2% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Chardon Estates1% of residentsGroundwater wells (3 wells)
- Manchester Farms Water1% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Maple Ridge Mhc, Limited0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Cleveland Public Water System0% of residentsLake Erie
- Maywood Community Inc.0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Munson Township, Geauga County's boundary: 1 hospital, 1 dialysis center, 1 nursing home, 1 fire or EMS station, 1 public school, 1 private school, 1 poor-rated bridge, 1 museum, 1 police station, 1 Toxics Release Inventory facility and 6 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Hospitals (1)
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Rehab Hospital at Heather Hill Care CommunitiesRehabilitation hospital · Chardon
- What it is
- Rehabilitation hospital
- Address
- 12340 Bass Lake Road, Chardon, OH 44024
- County
- Geauga County
- Beds
- 56
- Ownership
- Proprietary
- Phone
- (440) 285-4040
Hospital's website ↗ Where HIFLD got this record ↗ HIFLD hospitals (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: HIFLD hospitals inventory via FEMA (closed hospitals it still lists left out, hospitals opened since added), with Medicare Care Compare ratings matched by name and address.
Dialysis centers (1)
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Center For Dialysis Care At Heather HillDialysis · Chardon
- Address
- 12340 Bass Lake Road, Chardon, OH 44024
- Dialysis stations
- 12
- Medicare star rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Services
- in-center hemodialysis
- Ownership
- nonprofit
- Chain
- Centers for Dialysis Care
- Medicare certified since
- 1998-01-01
- Phone
- (440) 286-4103
- Medicare ID
- 362603
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS dialysis facility list (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS dialysis facility list, September 2026, geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (an address it could not place sits at its ZIP center).
Nursing homes (1)
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Chardon Woods3 of 5 stars · Chardon
- Address
- 12340 Bass Lake Road, Chardon, OH 44024
- Certified beds
- 161
- Residents on an average day
- 133
- Medicare overall rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 4 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 1 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 3 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- JOURNEY HEALTHCARE
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (440) 285-4040
- Medicare ID
- 365800
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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Munson Fire DepartmentChardon
- Address
- 12200 Auburn Road, Chardon, OH 44024
- Coordinates
- 41.53844, -81.24382
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.
Public schools (1)
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Munson Elementary School5 of 5 stars · Chardon
- Address
- 12687 Bass Lake Rd, Chardon, OH 44024
- School district
- Chardon Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 264
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 14
- Report card, 2025-26
- 5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 92.4%
- Ohio building IRN
- 025981
- NCES school ID
- 390471802793
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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Notre Dame Elementary SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Chardon
- Address
- 13000 Auburn Rd, Chardon, OH 44024
- Kind
- Catholic
- Students, 2023-24
- 388
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 27
- Students per teacher
- 14.3704
- Phone
- (440) 279-1120
- NCES private school ID
- 01603449
Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.
Bridges rated poor (1)
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Usr 322 over Beaver Crk 1.77 Mi. W 44Poor · built 1961
- Condition
- Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale
- What it is
- Culvert
- Built
- 1961
- Length
- 7 ft
- Owner
- State
- Vehicles a day
- 9,238
- Coordinates
- 41.52894, -81.22792
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.
Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)
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Geauga County Historical Society - Century VillageHistorical society · Chesterland
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Chesterland
- Coordinates
- 41.53852, -81.29508
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 (1)
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Geauga County Sheriff's OfficeChardon
- Address
- 12450 Merritt Road, Chardon, OH 44024
- Coordinates
- 41.50467, -81.19160
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.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (1)
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Aco Polymer Products IncToxics Release Inventory · Chardon
- Address
- 12080 Ravenna Rd, Chardon, OH 44024
- County
- Geauga County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 44024CPLYM12080
- EPA registry ID
- 110000385306
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 (6)
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2025-07-15 · Munson Twp
- Reported
- 2025-07-15
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 140 gallons
- Where
- Munson Twp, Geauga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2507EPA0001177
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2024-12-24 · Chardon Twp
- Reported
- 2024-12-24
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 20 gallons
- Where
- Chardon Twp, Geauga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2412EPA0002068
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil2024-02-01 · Munson Twp
- Reported
- 2024-02-01
- What spilled
- Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil
- Largest amount reported
- 5 gallons
- Where
- Munson Twp, Geauga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2402EPA0000174
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil2021-07-19 · Munson Twp
- Reported
- 2021-07-19
- What spilled
- Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil
- Largest amount reported
- 250 gallons
- Where
- Munson Twp, Geauga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2107EPA0001092
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2026-03-24 · Munson Twp
- Reported
- 2026-03-24
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 100 gallons
- Where
- Munson Twp, Geauga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2603EPA0000467
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil2026-03-07 · Munson Twp
- Reported
- 2026-03-07
- What spilled
- Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil
- Where
- Munson Twp, Geauga County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2603EPA0000317
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 Munson Township, Geauga 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44024 Munson Township and Chardon | 26% | Mostly private wells | 2.7 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1978 | Chardon Local · 5 stars overall | 0.5% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 44026 Chester Township and Chesterland | 8% | Mostly private wells | 2.6 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1963 | West Geauga Local · 5 stars overall | 0.6% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 44072 Russell Township and Novelty | 1% | Mostly private wells | 2.6 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1968 | West Geauga Local · 5 stars overall | 0.2% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Munson Township, Geauga County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Money issues on the ballot since 2022: 4 of 4 passed.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-05 | Issue: Renewal Munson Township 0.65 mills - Fire and EMS (0.65 mills, renewal) | 3,227 | 1,263 | Passed (71.87% for), unofficial |
| 2024-11-05 | Issue: Renewal Munson Township 1.75 mills - Fire and EMS (1.75 mills, renewal) | 3,056 | 1,443 | Passed (67.93% for), unofficial |
| 2022-11-08 | Issue: 2 mills - Renewal - Streets, Roads and Bridges (2.0 mills, renewal) | 2,699 | 928 | Passed (74.41% for) |
| 2022-11-08 | Issue: 1 mill Renewal - Fire and EMS (1.0 mills, renewal) | 2,898 | 749 | Passed (79.46% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-19 | Member of County Central Committee (DEM primary) | Elbert Whitright (DEM) 36, 100.0% |
| 2024-03-19 | Member of County Central Committee (DEM primary) | Connie Dustman (DEM) 25, 100.0% |
| 2024-03-19 | Member of County Central Committee (DEM primary) | Michael Dwyer (DEM) 17, 100.0% |
| 2024-03-19 | Member of County Central Committee (DEM primary) | Write-in (DEM) 6, 100.0% |
Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- Financial Audit, 2024 to 2025, released 2026-06-23
The county
Geauga County: 11 ZIP codes, 20 cities, villages and townships, 89,999 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Munson Township, Ohio in?
Munson Township, Geauga County is a township in Geauga County, Ohio, with 7,087 residents.
When was Munson Township, Ohio founded?
Munson Township, Geauga County was settled 1816 (Samuel Hopson, first cabin); incorporated 1817 (as part of Burlington Township); 1821 (first election as Munson Township). Founders on record: Samuel Hopson, first settler. Source
How did Munson Township, Ohio get its name?
The township was first called McDonough by Carey, Hotchkiss & Boone, who bought the south tract not long after the battle of Plattsburgh. Source
What ZIP code is Munson Township, Ohio?
Munson Township, Geauga County is served by ZIP codes 44024 and 44026; 44024 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Munson Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Munson Township, Geauga County (Chardon City): Mostly private wells.
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