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New Concord

Village · Muskingum County · 2,361 residents · 2.25% municipal income tax

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Local events in New Concord

41 events in the next 90 days from 2 public calendars. All local events in New Concord

  1. Fall in Love with N.C. Community-Wide Exhibit

    All day · From Village of New Concord

  2. After Hours

    3 to 6 p.m. · New Concord Branch Library · Free · From Muskingum County Library System

  3. Trail of Treats

    5 to 6 p.m. · Free · From Village of New Concord

Checked October 20; the events page is refreshed daily.

Notable people from New Concord

Ohioans tied to this place, each with a sourced profile. All notable Ohioans

How New Concord began

New Concord was laid out on March 24, 1827, by Judge David Findley on his own pastureland as a stop on the National Road, and was officially incorporated in 1838. It was settled largely by Scots-Irish Presbyterians whose families had come from western Pennsylvania along Zane's Trace, and in 1837 those settlers chartered Muskingum College (now Muskingum University) to educate the sons of the farming community in the classical tradition; women were admitted on equal terms beginning in 1854. The village is best known today as the boyhood home of astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, whose family moved there soon after his birth, and as the birthplace of William Rainey Harper, the scholar who became the first president of the University of Chicago.

Platted March 24, 1827, incorporated 1838, by Judge David Findley.

Where the name comes from

No source consulted explains why the founders chose the name "New Concord"; it was not stated in the village's own history page or in the Wikipedia article. (Concord, a common New England and Pennsylvania place name meaning harmony/agreement, was widely reused by settlers moving west; that general pattern is not, however, a cited fact about this specific village.)

Before the town

No Native American sites, villages, or trails specific to New Concord's own ground were found in the sources we checked. The village grew up along Zane's Trace, the road Ebenezer Zane and his party (including his brother Jonathan) cut through Ohio beginning in 1796-97; the Zane family is recorded as having close friendships with Wyandot and Delaware (Lenape) people, who visited their homes at the Muskingum River crossing that became Zanesville, a day's travel west of New Concord. No mound, earthwork or named village at the New Concord site itself was documented in these sources.

Nations recorded here: Wyandot, Lenape (Delaware).

Timeline

  1. — Judge David Findley lays out New Concord on his own pastureland as a stop on the National Road.
  2. — The village blacksmith builds the log house later known as Harper's Cabin, where William Rainey Harper, founder of the University of Chicago, is later born.
  3. — Muskingum College is chartered, founded by local Presbyterians to educate the village's young men.
  4. — New Concord is officially incorporated as a village.
  5. — Muskingum College graduates its first class.
  6. — Muskingum College begins admitting women on an equal basis with men.
  7. — John Herschel Glenn Jr. is born in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 18; his family moves to New Concord soon after his birth, and his father opens a plumbing business there.
  8. — John Glenn graduates from Muskingum College with a bachelor's degree in engineering.
  9. — The United Presbyterian Church of North America and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America sign a historic merger agreement in Brown Chapel on the Muskingum campus.
  10. — Muskingum names its gymnasium John Glenn Gym in honor of the alumnus's orbital spaceflight earlier that year.
  11. — The Boyhood Home of John H. Glenn Jr. at 72 W. Main Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10.
  12. — Muskingum College becomes Muskingum University.

Stories

The boy from New Concord who orbited the Earth

John Glenn's family moved to New Concord when he was a toddler, and he grew up in the small Presbyterian college town along the National Road, attending New Concord schools and then Muskingum College, where he earned an engineering degree in 1943 and met Annie Castor, whom he married. He became a Marine Corps fighter pilot, then a test pilot, then in February 1962 the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times aboard Friendship 7. He later served four terms as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and, in 1998 at age 77, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery. His boyhood home at 72 West Main Street, where his father ran a plumbing business, is preserved today as the John and Annie Glenn Museum and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

A college chartered by farmers' sons

Ten years after Judge Findley laid out New Concord as a National Road stop, the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian families who had settled the area petitioned the Ohio legislature to charter a college. Muskingum College opened in 1837 specifically, in the founders' words, to educate the sons of the farming village in the classical college tradition, and graduated its first class just two years later. The school broke from many contemporaries by admitting women on equal terms starting in 1854, more than a century before it eventually took university status in 2009. In 1958, two major branches of American Presbyterianism chose the campus's Brown Chapel as the site to sign their historic merger agreement, underscoring how tightly the college and the village's Presbyterian identity stayed bound together.

Photographs

The restored S Bridge carrying the old National Road over Fox Creek near New Concord
The restored S Bridge carrying the old National Road over Fox Creek near New Concord (c. 1995-2013)
Photo: A. E. Crane, U.S. Department of Transportation, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The John Glenn boyhood home at 72 W. Main Street, New Concord, now the John and Annie Glenn Museum
The John Glenn boyhood home at 72 W. Main Street, New Concord, now the John and Annie Glenn Museum (2011)
Photo: Nyttend (Wikimedia Commons), public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Paul Hall on the Muskingum College (now Muskingum University) campus, listed on the National Register
Paul Hall on the Muskingum College (now Muskingum University) campus, listed on the National Register (2009)
Photo: Bwsmith84 (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · newconcord-oh.gov · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · muskingumcountyhistory.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org

Historic places

5 places in New Concord on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

  1. "S" Bridge IIStructure · New Concord · listed 1973
    Address
    U.S. 40 W of New Concord
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County · ZIP 43762
    What it is
    Structure
    Listed on the National Register
    1973
    NRIS reference number
    73001513
    Coordinates
    39.99301, -81.74647

    National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map

  2. Glenn, John, Boyhood HomeBuilding · New Concord
    Address
    72 Main St.
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County · ZIP 43762
    What it is
    Building
    Latest NPS certification action
    2018
    NRIS reference number
    100003210
    Coordinates
    39.99330, -81.73632

    National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map

  3. Harper, William Rainey, Log HouseBuilding · New Concord · listed 1978
    Address
    E. Main St.
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County · ZIP 43762
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1978
    NRIS reference number
    78002154
    Coordinates
    39.99390, -81.73453

    National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map

  4. Paul Hall, Muskingum CollegeBuilding · New Concord · listed 1973
    Address
    Layton Dr., Muskingum College campus
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County · ZIP 43762
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1973
    NRIS reference number
    73001514
    Coordinates
    39.99543, -81.73443

    National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map

  5. Stormont, David, HouseBuilding · New Concord · listed 1983
    Address
    103 W. Main St.
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County · ZIP 43762
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1983
    NRIS reference number
    83002017
    Coordinates
    39.99369, -81.73805

    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.

Every historic place in Muskingum County on the full map

Water

Mostly private wells The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside New Concord's boundary: 1 fire or EMS station, 1 college, 1 high-hazard dam, 1 public school, 1 library, 1 museum, 2 police stations, 1 public charging site and 2 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Fire and EMS stations (1)

  1. New Concord Fire DepartmentNew Concord
    Address
    2 West Main Street, New Concord, OH 43762
    Coordinates
    39.99342, -81.73421

    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.

Colleges (1)

  1. Muskingum UniversityPrivate nonprofit college · New Concord
    What it is
    Private nonprofit college
    City
    New Concord
    Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
    2,771
    Tuition and fees, in state
    $31,440
    Graduation rate
    53% of bachelor's students, within six years (a class of 385)
    IPEDS unit ID
    204264

    College Navigator (NCES) ↗ IPEDS data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 2023-24 enrollment and tuition, graduation rates for the 2017 (four-year) and 2020 (two-year) entering classes.

High-hazard dams (1)

  1. Muskingum College Lake Dam PoorTributary To North Crooked Creek · condition: poor
    Hazard class
    High: a failure would probably cost a life
    Condition
    Poor (assessed 09/10/2023)
    River or stream
    Tributary To North Crooked Creek
    Purpose
    Recreation
    Type
    Earth
    Height
    28 ft
    Storage
    36 acre-feet
    Completed
    1935
    Owner type
    Private
    County
    Muskingum County
    Nearest town (NID)
    New Concord
    Last inspection
    11/15/2022
    Emergency action plan
    Yes
    NID ID
    OH02190

    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 (1)

  1. New Concord Elementary School3.5 of 5 stars · New Concord
    Address
    4 Stormont St, New Concord, OH 43762
    School district
    East Muskingum Local School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    258
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    13.5
    Report card, 2025-26
    3.5 of 5 stars
    Ohio building IRN
    026690
    NCES school ID
    390488303417

    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.

Public libraries (1)

  1. New Concord BranchBranch · New Concord
    Address
    77 W Main St, New Concord, OH 43762
    What it is
    Branch
    Library system
    Muskingum County Library System
    Open
    2,180 hours a year, 52 weeks
    Building
    4,500 sq ft
    System's visits, FY2024
    214,604
    System's loans, FY2024
    486,677
    People the system serves
    86,410
    Phone
    (740) 826-4184

    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 (1)

  1. John And Annie Glenn MuseumMuseum · New Concord
    What it is
    Museum
    City
    New Concord
    Coordinates
    39.99453, -81.73866

    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)

  1. Muskingum University Police DepartmentNew Concord
    Address
    104 Montgomery Boulevard, New Concord, OH 43762
    Coordinates
    39.99754, -81.73839

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

  2. New Concord Police DepartmentNew Concord
    Address
    2 West Main Street, New Concord, OH 43762
    Coordinates
    39.99330, -81.73421

    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 (1)

  1. GARLAND HOTEL GARLAND 22 Level 2 · New concord
    Address
    150 garland way, New concord, OH 43762
    Ports
    2 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.

Spills reported since 2021 (2)

  1. Oil Transformer Pcb2022-05-04 · New Concord
    Reported
    2022-05-04
    What spilled
    Oil Transformer Pcb
    Largest amount reported
    20 gallons
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2205EPA0000633

    Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  2. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2026-04-08 · New Concord
    Reported
    2026-04-08
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    150 gallons
    Where
    New Concord, Muskingum County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2604EPA0000590

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

ZIPShareWaterRadon Home valueSchoolsFlood
43762 New Concord 44% Mostly private wells 3.7 pCi/L average radon Appraisal records without year built East Muskingum Local · 3.5 stars overall 2.5% of residents in the 1% floodplain

Local government

Who holds office in New Concord, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.

Who holds office

OfficeNamePartyTerm endsContact
MayorJennifer Lyle2023 180 Montgomery Blvd New Concord 43762
CouncilRobert L. Dickson2023 101 E Maple Ave New Concord 43762
CouncilLevi Masuda Shegog2023 765 Friendship Drive New Concord 43762
CouncilRobert E. Baier Sr2021 219 Westview Drive New Concord 43762
CouncilWilliam T. Kerrigan2021 159 Harper Street New Concord 43762
CouncilJennifer S. Lyle2021 180 Montgomery Blvd New Concord 43762
CouncilSteven B. Wootton2021 161 W Main Street New Concord 43762

Roster as of 2019: county board of elections.

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2021-11-02 Council Member Stan Taylor 235, 22.21%; Kristi Kearns 226, 21.36%; Jim Whitehair 224, 21.17%; Steven Wootton 218, 20.6%; Wm Troy Cole 155, 14.65%
2019-11-05 Mayor Jennifer Lyle 268, 60.09%; Brett W. Essex 178, 39.91%
2019-11-05 Council Member Levi Masuda Shegog 325, 58.77%; Robert Dickson 228, 41.23%

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

The county

Muskingum County: 17 ZIP codes, 38 cities, villages and townships, 91,875 people.

Nearby places

Union Township, Muskingum County Westland Township, Guernsey County Highland Township, Muskingum County Monroe Township, Muskingum County Adams Township, Guernsey County Rich Hill Township, Muskingum County Knox Township, Guernsey County

Rain and snow

How much has actually fallen on New Concord, day by day, from 1887 to now. Daily totals, not averages.

rain, last 30 days
1.37 in
2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29
rain so far in 2026
53.8 in
18.9 in above normal for the date
snow so far in 2026
22.8 in
a normal year brings 20.9 in
a normal year
41.0 in
average of 30 years, 1991-2020
The last twelve months
MonthRain (in)Snow (in)Days counted
October 2026 1.37 — 29
September 2026 5.49 — 30
August 2026 11.39 — 31
July 2026 6.45 — 31
June 2026 4.56 — 30
May 2026 8.87 — 31
April 2026 4.32 — 30
March 2026 8.22 4.0 31
February 2026 1.32 2.8 28
January 2026 1.84 16.0 31
December 2025 2.52 10.2 31
November 2025 2.32 0.4 30
On the record, 1887–2026
Wettest year2011 — 55.6 in
Driest year1930 — 22.2 in
Snowiest year1910 — 54.5 in
Wettest day on record14 July 1913 — 5.17 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day20 April 1901 — 12.60 in
Deepest snow on the ground18 February 2003 — 18.35 in

Estimated, not measured. No rain gauge has ever stood inside New Concord, so every figure here is worked out from the gauges around it - the nearest ones weighted most. Treat them as close estimates rather than readings.

49,674 days of records, 1887-08-01 to 2026-10-29. 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 2026-10-31): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-10-31 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 New Concord: 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
13
those placed on the map inside New Concord
What kind of permits
ProgramFacilities and sites
Wastewater and stormwater discharge5
Hazardous waste3
Sewer and water-line construction2
Public drinking water1
State sewer loans1
State water loans1
The latest filings
DateFacility or siteWhat
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
MAPLEVIEW ENTERPRISES APARTMENTS Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water report
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water letter
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water plan
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water inspection
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge report
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water inspection
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge report
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water inspection
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water warning letter
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water violation resolved
NEW CONCORD PWS Public drinking water report
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results
NEW CONCORD WWTP Wastewater and stormwater discharge monitoring results

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 New Concord, Ohio in?

New Concord is a village in Muskingum County, Ohio, with 2,361 residents.

When was New Concord, Ohio founded?

New Concord was laid out March 24, 1827; incorporated 1838. Founders on record: Judge David Findley. Source

What ZIP code is New Concord, Ohio?

Most of New Concord is in ZIP code 43762.

Where does New Concord, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for New Concord (New Concord): Mostly private wells.

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