Local events in Newark
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Lakes near Newark
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Deep dives about Newark
Long reads built from maps, newspapers and public records. All deep dives
- Longaberger Basket BuildingThe seven-story Basket Building in Newark was built in 1995-97 as Longaberger's $32 million headquarters. Emptied in 2016, it sold for $1.2 million in 2017.
- Newark EarthworksHopewell people built the Newark Earthworks between about 160 BC and AD 310. The Great Circle and the Octagon, aligned to the Moon, became a World Heritage Site in 2023.
- Ohio State FairThe Ohio State Fair began in Cincinnati in 1850, moved among ten Ohio cities, then settled in 1886 on the Columbus fairgrounds it still uses.
- The Hopewell CultureOhio's Hopewell people built moon-aligned earthworks around AD 90-430, moved Yellowstone obsidian 1,500 miles, and left a 2023 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- The Mound Builder MythOhio's earthworks were long blamed on a vanished 'lost race,' a myth that helped justify Indian Removal and outlived its 1894 federal debunking.
History from Newark
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How Newark began
Newark, the Licking County seat, was laid out in 1802 by General William C. Schenck at the forks of the Licking River, on ground that already held the largest set of geometric earthworks the Hopewell culture built anywhere in the world 1,600 to 2,000 years earlier. Schenck named the town for his birthplace, Newark, New Jersey. The Ohio and Erie Canal broke ground nearby in 1825, the Central Ohio Railroad and later the Baltimore and Ohio's car shops made it a rail town, and glass, stove and, from 1938, fiberglass manufacturing built its economy through the twentieth century. The surviving Octagon and Great Circle Earthworks were inscribed as part of Ohio's first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, the same square mile of riverbank ground where the county courthouse, a Louis Sullivan bank, and the Longaberger Company's basket-shaped headquarters also stand.
Settled 1802 (cabins built at the site this year), platted 1802, laid out by William C. Schenck; the plat was formally recorded in Fairfield County's records on March 16, 1803, incorporated 1813, by General William C. Schenck, acting for himself and as agent for partners John N. Cummins and John Burnet.
Where the name comes from
Newark was named by its founder and principal proprietor, General William C. Schenck, for his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, when he laid out the town at the forks of the Licking River in 1802.
Before the town
The single most important Native American site in Ohio sits inside the modern city: the Newark Earthworks, a complex of geometric enclosures the Hopewell culture built between roughly 100 BC and AD 400, moving an estimated 7 million cubic feet of earth by hand to lay out circles, squares and an octagon precisely keyed to the 18.6-year cycle of the moon's rising and setting points. It was a gathering and ceremonial place, not a residence: excavations there have turned up obsidian, marine shell, shark teeth, mica and copper carried in from a trade network reaching a thousand miles and more from central Ohio. By the time of historic-era contact the Wyandot and Shawnee used the Licking valley mainly as a hunting ground rather than a place of permanent towns; the 1881 county history, citing the estimate of U.S. geographer Thomas Hutchins for 1764, puts about three hundred Wyandot and five hundred Shawnee warriors in the wider region, and states plainly that the site of Newark itself lay outside the main trails, with only a branch trail passing through the county along the Licking River past a favorite fishing ground at the Bowling Green reservoir. The Licking River and county both take their name from salt licks on its banks that drew deer and buffalo, and later the settlers' own hunters; one early Ohio Delaware-language explanation instead derives the name from a phrase meaning 'where the flood waters recede.' The land that became Licking County lies within the vast tract the United States acquired from the Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Ottawa, and other nations by the Treaty of Greenville on August 3, 1795, whose line ran well to the north and west of the future county. In 1860 the amateur antiquarian David Wyrick, digging in the earthworks' mounds, produced inscribed stones purporting to show an ancient Hebrew presence in Ohio; they are now recognized as a hoax, but the affair shows how much fascination the earthworks already held only a generation after Newark's founding. No source-documented Native village, camp or burial ground specific to the town site itself survives in the record beyond the earthworks and the trail described above. The wider county's record also includes the Adena and Fort Ancient cultures.
Nations recorded here: Hopewell culture, Wyandot, Shawnee.
- Octagon Earthworks (earthwork) — within the city of Newark, joined by parallel walls to an Observatory Circle, Hopewell culture, c. 100 BC - AD 400 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Great Circle Earthworks (earthwork) — in the neighboring city of Heath, immediately south of Newark, part of the same Newark Earthworks complex, Hopewell culture, c. 100 BC - AD 400 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Wright Earthworks (earthwork) — within the city of Newark; a fragment of a once-20-acre square enclosure, largely destroyed by 19th-century canal construction and development, Hopewell culture, c. 100 BC - AD 400 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Newark Holy Stones find site (other) — mounds of the Newark Earthworks complex, Newark, objects excavated June and November 1860; later exposed as a hoax (en.wikipedia.org)
Timeline
- — The Hopewell culture builds the Newark Earthworks, the largest connected set of geometric earthen enclosures known anywhere, covering more than four square miles of what is now Newark and Heath.
- — U.S. geographer Thomas Hutchins estimates about three hundred Wyandot and five hundred Shawnee warriors in the wider region that includes the future Licking County, which the 1881 county history describes as used mainly as a hunting ground rather than settled with permanent towns.
- — The Treaty of Greenville, signed August 3, cedes a large area of Ohio, including the land that becomes Licking County, to the United States.
- — General William C. Schenck lays out the town of Newark at the forks of the Licking River, and settlers including Adam Hatfield, Samuel Elliott and others build the first cabins there the same year.
- — Schenck's plat and description of the town of Newark is sworn before a Fairfield County justice and recorded on March 16.
- — The Ohio legislature establishes Licking County on January 30, organized March 1, with Newark as the county seat.
- — Licking County's first courthouse, a one- or two-story log building on the public square, is erected; it serves until about 1815.
- — Newark is incorporated.
- — Benjamin Briggs founds the Newark Advocate, the city's first newspaper, which is still publishing a century later.
- — On July 4, ground is broken for the Ohio and Erie Canal at Licking Summit near Newark; Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, the guest of honor, turns the first spadeful of earth before a crowd of thousands.
- — Licking County's third courthouse, a two-story brick building with an ungainly wooden third story on stone pillars, replaces the decaying second courthouse on the same public square.
- — John Clem, later famous as the Civil War drummer boy 'Johnny Shiloh,' the youngest noncommissioned officer in U.S. Army history, is born in Newark on August 13.
- — The Central Ohio Railroad begins running trains between Zanesville and Newark on January 19, the city's first rail connection.
- — The Central Ohio Railroad extends service from Newark west to Columbus.
- — David Wyrick excavates the inscribed 'Keystone' in June and the 'Decalogue Stone' in November from mounds of the Newark Earthworks; both are later identified as a hoax rather than evidence of an ancient Hebrew presence.
- — The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad builds heavy car shops at Newark, once described as the most extensive in the western United States, making the city a division headquarters with a 12-track yard and a 25-stall roundhouse.
- — Licking County's third courthouse burns.
- — Construction begins on the present Licking County Courthouse; in March, while still unfinished, its upper stories catch fire from a defective flue and burn to the second story before the fire is put out, damaging county records.
- — James Moser and, from 1885, partner Joseph Wehrle begin making cast-iron stoves at a former machine works in Newark, the start of what becomes the Wehrle Stove Company.
- — The privately owned Newark Water Company begins operating a pumping station and distribution system, drawing water from local wells filtered through wood tubs.
- — A. H. Heisey founds the A. H. Heisey Company glass works in Newark, which becomes one of the country's leading makers of fine pressed and blown tableware.
- — The City of Newark builds its own municipal pumping station and distribution system, drawing water from the North Fork of the Licking River.
- — The city buys out the privately owned Newark Water Company and merges its system with the municipal plant.
- — On July 8, a mob storms the Licking County jail and lynches Carl Etherington, a 17-year-old Anti-Saloon League agent who had shot and killed a man during a raid on illegal Newark saloons; Ohio Governor Judson Harmon removes Newark's mayor from office afterward.
- — Chicago architect Louis Sullivan designs the Home Building Association bank at 1 North Third Street, built in 1914 and opened August 25, 1915; it is one of only eight banks Sullivan designed.
- — Newark's water plant becomes the first municipal waterworks in the country to remove settled sludge by mechanical clarifiers, adding softening and filtration the same year.
- — Aviator Jerrie Mock, who in 1964 becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world, is born in Newark on November 22.
- — Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass spin off their joint glass-fiber research as the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, which keeps its research and development in Newark until moving it to a new technical center in Granville in 1960.
- — The Heisey Glass Company closes after 62 years; the Imperial Glass Company later buys its molds.
- — The Longaberger Company opens its seven-story, basket-shaped corporate headquarters along State Route 16 in Newark, built to resemble the company's Medium Market Basket.
- — Newark's water treatment plant adopts ultraviolet disinfection, becoming one of the first plants in the United States, and the first in Ohio, to disinfect drinking water with UV light.
- — On September 19, UNESCO inscribes the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, including Newark's Octagon Earthworks and the Great Circle Earthworks in neighboring Heath, as Ohio's first World Heritage Site.
- — The Moundbuilders Country Club, which had leased and golfed on the Octagon Earthworks since 1910, vacates the site on January 1 following a 2022 Ohio Supreme Court ruling allowing the Ohio History Connection to acquire the lease by eminent domain, restoring full public access.
Stories
A Basketful at a Time
Roughly two thousand years ago, people of the Hopewell culture began laying out enormous geometric shapes in earth on the flat ground where the North and South forks of the Licking River meet. Working without wheelbarrows, draft animals or writing, they moved an estimated 7 million cubic feet of soil, dug and carried it seems basket by basket, to raise walls in a giant octagon, two great circles and a near-perfect square, connected by parallel embankments across a stretch of land more than four square miles. There is no evidence of an elite class that commanded this labor; houses and grave goods look similar across Hopewell society, so archaeologists believe many communities cooperated to build and periodically gather at the site, bringing with them obsidian, mica, marine shell, shark teeth and copper carried in from trade networks a thousand miles and more away. By the time American surveyors reached central Ohio, canal builders, farmers and the growing town of Newark had already erased nine-tenths of the complex; what is left, about 206 acres split among the Octagon, the Great Circle and the Wright Earthworks fragment, is still the largest connected set of geometric earthworks known anywhere in the world.
The Octagon and the Moon
For more than a century after the Ohio militia stopped using the Octagon Earthworks as a training ground in 1908, the walls of one of the most sophisticated ancient structures in North America doubled as a country-club golf course. That arrangement obscured, but never erased, what two Earlham College professors, astronomer Ray Hively and philosopher Robert Horn, worked out in 1982: that the Octagon's walls and gateways were engineered so that the moon, at the northernmost point of its 18.6-year rise-and-set cycle, appears to rise directly through the passage linking the Observatory Circle to the Octagon, a feat of surveying precision that later analysis judged twice as accurate as the famous solstice alignment at Stonehenge. The Moundbuilders Country Club held its lease until a 2022 Ohio Supreme Court ruling let the Ohio History Connection acquire it by eminent domain; the club played its last round and departed on January 1, 2025, and the following September the Octagon and its neighbor the Great Circle were inscribed, together with sites in Ross and Warren counties, as Ohio's first UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Newark Holy Stones
In 1860 a Newark surveyor and self-taught antiquarian named David Wyrick, convinced that the mound-building people were connected to the Lost Tribes of Israel, dug in the earthworks and came up with proof, or so he believed: a small inscribed 'Keystone' bearing Hebrew phrases including 'Holy of Holies,' found in June, and in November a sandstone box holding a tablet carved with a miniature Ten Commandments in Hebrew, the 'Decalogue Stone.' The find caused a sensation, offering apparent evidence that ancient Israelites, not just prehistoric Indians, had built the wonders on Newark's outskirts. It did not hold up: contemporary Hebrew scholars judged the lettering 'not antique,' Wyrick's own sketches of the stones contained dozens of errors, and the script itself turned out to be a later form of Hebrew inconsistent with a Lost Tribes origin centuries earlier. The stones survive today, not as evidence of ancient Israelites but as a case study in archaeological hoaxes, on display at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in nearby Coshocton.
Governor Clinton Turns the First Spadeful
Before the Ohio and Erie Canal, Licking County farmers had no good way to get produce to market; the 1881 county history recalls eggs selling at four cents a dozen and flour at a dollar a hundredweight for lack of an outlet. The state's canal commissioners chose Licking Summit, just outside Newark, as the place to begin digging, and invited dignitaries from across Ohio and beyond to a groundbreaking on July 4, 1825. Three days of rain before the event turned the woods to mud and ruined the caterer's profits, but the Fourth dawned clear, and Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, the man who had championed the Erie Canal in his own state, was handed a spade and threw out the first shovelful of earth to the cheers of a crowd so large that a cavalry company had to be posted around the speakers' stand. Governor Morrow of Ohio and a young army captain took their turns after him, and the antiquarian Caleb Atwater, watching the horses stamp at flies in front of the podium, remarked afterward that it was only fitting, since horses could not read the speeches and the rest of the crowd could.
A Courthouse Twice Undone by Fire
Licking County has built four courthouses on the same public square in Newark, and fire cuts through the story of nearly all of them. The first, a log building put up around 1809, gave way about 1815 to a two-story brick building with offices in each corner; that one, judged too small and poorly built, was replaced around 1832 by a larger brick structure whose builders added a purely decorative, structurally useless wooden third story propped on stone pillars. That third courthouse burned in 1874, and the county began building its fourth and present courthouse in 1876 at a cost of about $190,000. Even the new building did not escape unscathed: in March 1876, before it was finished, a defective heating flue set the still-unroofed upper stories ablaze, burning down to the second floor and damaging records in the recorder's and auditor's offices before the fire was extinguished. The damaged upper floors were rebuilt at a further cost of forty to fifty thousand dollars, producing the Second Empire courthouse, with its mansard roof and gilded clock tower, that still stands on the square today.
Sullivan's Jewel Box on Third Street
In 1914 the Home Building Association Company hired the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, already famous for skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function,' to design its new bank on a narrow lot at Third and Main streets. Sullivan gave Newark one of only eight small-town 'jewel box' banks he designed late in his career, an unusually tall two-story building for the type, faced in gray-green terra cotta with his signature intertwined foliage ornament, winged lions over the entrance, and his own name worked into a tile mosaic above the door. It opened for business on August 25, 1915, and outlasted the bank itself, serving over the decades as a butcher shop, a jewelry store and an ice cream parlor before Newark businessman Stephen Jones bought it in 2007 to save it from demolition and later donated it to the Licking County Foundation for restoration.
The Lynching of Carl Etherington
In January 1909 Licking County voted itself dry under Ohio's new local-option law, but Newark's saloons kept pouring, reportedly with local officials paid off to look the other way. On July 8, 1910, the Anti-Saloon League sent in roughly twenty special agents, sworn in by the mayor of Granville, to raid three Newark saloons; the raid collapsed into a riot as saloon patrons attacked the agents. One agent, 17-year-old Carl Etherington, was chased more than two miles by a mob that included a former police captain, William Howard; when Howard beat him, Etherington shot Howard in what he said was self-defense and was arrested. Howard died of the wound that evening, and as the news spread a crowd that grew to thousands gathered outside the county jail, broke in, dragged Etherington to the public square, beat him and hanged him from a telegraph pole. Ohio's governor removed Newark's mayor from office for failing to prevent the lynching, the state indicted 39 people, including 15 on murder charges, for the mob's actions, and Newark did not formally commemorate what had happened until a historical marker went up at the old jail in 2017.
Stoves, Glass and Fiberglass
Newark built much of its economy on furnaces. In 1883 James Moser opened an iron foundry at an abandoned machine works on the east side; by 1890 his partner Joseph Wehrle's sons controlled it outright as the Wehrle Stove Company, which grew, by its own later account, into the nation's largest stove maker, running two miles of private railroad track and, at its peak, over two thousand employees. A dozen years after Wehrle started, in 1895, A. H. Heisey opened a glass works elsewhere in the city that became one of the country's most admired makers of fine pressed and blown tableware, a reputation that outlived the factory itself, which closed in 1957; collectors founded the National Heisey Glass Museum in Newark's Veterans Park in 1974. The city's furnace tradition continued into the fiberglass age: when Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass spun off their shared glass-fiber research in 1938 as the new Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, they built its first factory in Newark, a plant the company still calls its flagship, the oldest and among the largest it operates.
The Basket That Ate a Cornfield
In 1997 the Longaberger Company, which had built its fortune selling handwoven maple baskets through home shows, opened a corporate headquarters along State Route 16 outside Newark shaped like its own Medium Market Basket, right down to two 150-ton steel handles arched over the glass roof and heated in winter so they would not ice over. The 180,000-square-foot building, wider at the top than the bottom in imitation of a real basket, became one of Ohio's best-known examples of novelty architecture, a piece of corporate showmanship built at the company's peak, when it employed more than 8,000 people and rang up a billion dollars a year in sales. The company's fortunes fell as fast as they had risen: it vacated the building in 2016 and folded a subsidiary into bankruptcy in 2018. Investors have cycled through the empty basket ever since, one pair paying $1.2 million for it in 2017 and, as of a 2026 listing at $8.5 million, offering it for sale on one condition: whatever it becomes next, they say, 'it's got to stay a basket.'
Photographs
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Historic places
17 places in Newark on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.
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Cedar Hill Cemetery BuildingsBuilding · Newark · listed 1977
- Address
- Cedar St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1977
- NRIS reference number
- 77001071
- Coordinates
- 40.06793, -82.38592
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Courthouse CenterBuilding · Newark · listed 1979
- Address
- 35--37 S. Park Pl. and jct. of S. Park and S. 2nd St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1979
- NRIS reference number
- 79001879
- Coordinates
- 40.05730, -82.40071
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Evans--Holton--Owens HouseBuilding · Newark · listed 1986
- Address
- 162 W. Locust St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1986
- NRIS reference number
- 86002874
- Coordinates
- 40.05845, -82.41035
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Home Building Association BankBuilding · Newark · listed 1973
- Address
- 6 W. Main St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1973
- NRIS reference number
- 73001495
- Coordinates
- 40.05782, -82.40236
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Hull PlaceBuilding · Newark · listed 1979
- Address
- 686 W. Main St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1979
- NRIS reference number
- 79001880
- Coordinates
- 40.05237, -82.42851
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Licking County CourthouseBuilding · Newark · listed 1973
- Address
- Courthouse Sq.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1973
- NRIS reference number
- 73001496
- Coordinates
- 40.05783, -82.40142
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McNamar-McLure-Miller ResidenceBuilding · Newark · listed 1982
- Address
- 124 W. Main St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1982
- NRIS reference number
- 82003603
- Coordinates
- 40.05649, -82.40820
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Newark High SchoolBuilding · Newark · listed 2015
- Address
- 112 W. Main St., 9 N. 5th St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 2015
- NRIS reference number
- 15000613
- Coordinates
- 40.05506, -82.40689
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OakwoodBuilding · Newark · listed 1980
- Address
- 64-70 Penney Ave.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1980
- NRIS reference number
- 80003141
- Coordinates
- 40.06147, -82.38391
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Pennsylvania Railway StationBuilding · Newark · listed 1979
- Address
- 25 E. Walnut St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1979
- NRIS reference number
- 79001881
- Coordinates
- 40.05551, -82.40032
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Rhoads, Peter F., HouseBuilding · Newark · listed 1980
- Address
- 74 Granville St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1980
- NRIS reference number
- 80003142
- Coordinates
- 40.06062, -82.40922
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Rodrick BridgeStructure · Newark · listed 1998
- Address
- N of Granville Rd., between Hall Ave. and Village Dr. W
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Structure
- Listed on the National Register
- 1998
- NRIS reference number
- 98000442
- Coordinates
- 40.06817, -82.44057
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Sherwood-Davidson And Buckingham HousesBuilding · Newark · listed 1977
- Address
- W. Main and 6th Sts.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1977
- NRIS reference number
- 77001072
- Coordinates
- 40.05647, -82.40995
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Shield's BlockBuilding · Newark · listed 1978
- Address
- 23--29 S. Park Pl.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1978
- NRIS reference number
- 78002101
- Coordinates
- 40.05730, -82.40071
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Upham-Wright HouseBuilding · Newark · listed 1979
- Address
- 342 Granville St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1979
- NRIS reference number
- 79001882
- Coordinates
- 40.06356, -82.41925
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West Side Planing Mill (rear)Building · Newark · listed 1983
- Address
- 197 Maholm St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1983
- NRIS reference number
- 83002000
- Coordinates
- 40.05085, -82.42754
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Williams, Elias, HouseBuilding · Newark · listed 1979
- Address
- 565 Granville St.
- Where
- Newark, Licking County · ZIP 43055
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1979
- NRIS reference number
- 79001883
- Coordinates
- 40.06472, -82.42748
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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
North Fork of the Licking River, drawn directly at riverbank intake screens beside the plant at the north end of Newark The water here
- Newark City98% of residentsNorth Fork Licking River
- Licking County Prescott Estates1% of residentsGroundwater wells (3 wells)
- Lakeshore Court Mobile Home1% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)
- St. Louisville Village0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- City of Heath0% of residentslocal wells
- Winding Creek Estates0% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)
- Valley Mobile Home Park0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Wilkins Mobile Home Park0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Newark's boundary: 3 hospitals, 1 health center, 2 dialysis centers, 5 nursing homes, 4 fire and EMS stations, 3 colleges, 16 public schools, 5 private schools, 1 poor-rated bridge, 3 libraries, 6 museums, 2 police stations, 9 public charging sites, 3 Superfund sites, 9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities, 1 station or terminal and 25 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Hospitals (3)
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Licking Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital · Newark
- What it is
- General hospital
- Address
- 1320 West Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Beds
- 213
- Helipad
- Yes
- Ownership
- Non-profit
- Medicare overall rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Emergency department (Medicare)
- Yes
- Phone
- (220) 564-4100
- Medicare ID
- 360218
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Select Specialty Hospital Southeast OhioLong-term acute care hospital · Newark
- What it is
- Long-term acute care hospital
- Address
- 2000 Tamarack Road, 2Nd Floor, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Beds
- 35
- Ownership
- Proprietary
- Phone
- (717) 975-4502
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Shepherd Hill HospitalPsychiatric hospital · Newark
- What it is
- Psychiatric hospital
- Address
- 200 Messimer Drive, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Beds
- 14
- Ownership
- Non-profit
- Phone
- (220) 564-4100
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.
Community health centers (1)
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Lower Lights Health NewarkHealth center · Newark
- Run by
- a federally qualified health center
- Setting
- Clinic
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.04342, -82.46028
Find a Health Center (HRSA) ↗ HRSA data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: HRSA health center service delivery sites, active, September 2026 (school-based sites left out). Health centers see patients whether or not they have insurance, with fees on a sliding scale.
Dialysis centers (2)
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Davita Cherry Valley DialysisDialysis · Newark
- Address
- 1627 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Dialysis stations
- 26
- Medicare star rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Services
- in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis training
- Ownership
- for profit
- Chain
- DaVita
- Medicare certified since
- 2009-09-24
- Phone
- (740) 522-1699
- Medicare ID
- 362744
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS dialysis facility list (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Davita Premiere Kidney Center Of NewarkDialysis · Newark
- Address
- 65 South Terrace Ave, Newark, OH 43055
- Dialysis stations
- 21
- Medicare star rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Services
- in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis training
- Shift starting after 5 pm
- Yes
- Ownership
- for profit
- Chain
- DaVita
- Medicare certified since
- 2002-05-30
- Phone
- (740) 522-2955
- Medicare ID
- 362644
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 (5)
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Altercare Newark North Inc.3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 151 Price Road, Newark, OH 43055
- Certified beds
- 75
- Residents on an average day
- 66
- Medicare overall rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 2 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- ALTERCARE
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (740) 366-2321
- Medicare ID
- 365481
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Altercare Newark South Inc.3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 17 Forry Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Certified beds
- 47
- Residents on an average day
- 44
- 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
- 2 fines totalling $252,477 (latest 2025-05-20)
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- ALTERCARE
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (740) 349-8175
- Medicare ID
- 366196
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Arlington Care Center3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 98 South 30Th Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Certified beds
- 110
- Residents on an average day
- 102
- 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
- FOUNDATIONS HEALTH SOLUTIONS
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (740) 344-0303
- Medicare ID
- 365440
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Flint Ridge Nrsg & Rehab Ctr3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 1450 West Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Certified beds
- 99
- Residents on an average day
- 81
- Medicare overall rating
- 3 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 2 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 3 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain
- CCH HEALTHCARE
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (740) 344-9465
- Medicare ID
- 365485
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Nursing & Rehab2 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 75 Mcmillen Drive, Newark, OH 43055
- Certified beds
- 145
- Residents on an average day
- 122
- Medicare overall rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 1 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (740) 344-0357
- Medicare ID
- 365425
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 (4)
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Newark Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services Station 1Newark
- Address
- 75 South 4th Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Coordinates
- 40.05486, -82.40395
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Fire Department Station 2Newark
- Address
- 1140 Hollander Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Coordinates
- 40.08523, -82.41010
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Fire Department Station 3Newark
- Address
- 1800 West Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Coordinates
- 40.04285, -82.46659
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Fire Department Station 4Newark
- Address
- 1225 East Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Coordinates
- 40.06152, -82.35611
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 (3)
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Career and Technology Education Centers of Licking CountyPublic career school · Newark
- What it is
- Public career school
- City
- Newark
- Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
- 454
- IPEDS unit ID
- 418205
College Navigator (NCES) ↗ IPEDS data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Central Ohio Technical CollegePublic community or technical college · Newark
- What it is
- Public community or technical college
- City
- Newark
- Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
- 4,349
- Tuition and fees, in state
- $5,136
- Tuition and fees, out of state
- $7,896
- Graduation rate
- 24% (all programs, within 150% of normal time) (a class of 194)
- IPEDS unit ID
- 201672
College Navigator (NCES) ↗ IPEDS data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Ohio State University-Newark CampusRegional campus of a public university · Newark
- What it is
- Regional campus of a public university
- City
- Newark
- Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
- 2,845
- Tuition and fees, in state
- $9,212
- Tuition and fees, out of state
- $34,718
- Graduation rate
- 31% of bachelor's students, within six years (a class of 1,334)
- IPEDS unit ID
- 204705
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.
Public schools (16)
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Ben Franklin Elementary School3.5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 533 Beacon Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 274
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 18.66
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 69.8%
- Ohio building IRN
- 012229
- NCES school ID
- 390444501376
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Career and Technology Educational CentersNewark
- Address
- 150 Price Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind (NCES)
- Career and Technical School
- Students, 2023-24
- 727
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 76
- NCES school ID
- 390512004073
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Carson Elementary School3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 549 E Main St, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 392
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 25.86
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 72.9%
- Ohio building IRN
- 009212
- NCES school ID
- 390444505427
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Cherry Valley Elementary School3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 1040 W Main St, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 380
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 25.17
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 74.8%
- Ohio building IRN
- 006080
- NCES school ID
- 390444501373
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Headstart EastlandNewark
- Address
- 986 E Main St, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind (NCES)
- Special Education School
- Students, 2023-24
- 16
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 2
- NCES school ID
- 390444505912
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Heritage Middle School2.5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 600 Arlington Ave, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 392
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 25.11
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 60.6%
- Ohio building IRN
- 009213
- NCES school ID
- 390444505383
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Hillview Elementary School5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 1927 Horns Hill Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 475
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 25.33
- Report card, 2025-26
- 5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 87.9%
- Ohio building IRN
- 009214
- NCES school ID
- 390444505411
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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John Clem Elementary School3.5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 475 Jefferson Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 395
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 26.37
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 74.3%
- Ohio building IRN
- 006627
- NCES school ID
- 390444501374
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Legend Elementary4.5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 1075 Evans Blvd, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 493
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 27.81
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 85.5%
- Ohio building IRN
- 009216
- NCES school ID
- 390444505369
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Liberty Middle School4 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 1055 Evans Blvd, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 438
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 23.67
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 77.3%
- Ohio building IRN
- 009218
- NCES school ID
- 390444505379
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Little Learners PreschoolNewark
- Address
- 1440 Granville Rd Ste G, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 59
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 3
- NCES school ID
- 390444505987
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McGuffey Elementary School2.5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 130 Green Wave Dr, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 438
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 25.85
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 66.9%
- Ohio building IRN
- 023572
- NCES school ID
- 390444501384
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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NCS Digital2 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 1440 Granville Rd Ste J, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 310
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 10.5
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 57.4%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 63.2%
- Ohio building IRN
- 017325
- NCES school ID
- 390444505989
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark High School2.5 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 314 Granville St, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 1,408
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 68.62
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 71.7%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 84.7%
- Ohio building IRN
- 027011
- NCES school ID
- 390444501385
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Par Excellence Academy dba Par Excellence STEM AcademyNewark
- Address
- 1350 Granville Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 189
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 8.4
- NCES school ID
- 390056705059
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Wilson Middle School3 of 5 stars · Newark
- Address
- 805 W Church St, Newark, OH 43055
- School district
- Newark City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 357
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 23.5
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 66%
- Ohio building IRN
- 041657
- NCES school ID
- 390444501389
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 (5)
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Blessed Sacrament SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Newark
- Address
- 394 E Main St, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind
- Catholic
- Students, 2023-24
- 161
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 12.8
- Students per teacher
- 12.5781
- Phone
- (740) 345-4125
- NCES private school ID
- 01059745
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Montessori Community School LlcPrivate, nonsectarian · Newark
- Address
- 621 Country Club Dr, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind
- nonsectarian
- Students, 2023-24
- 6
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 2
- Students per teacher
- 3
- Phone
- (740) 344-9411
- NCES private school ID
- A0902586
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My Place To BePrivate, religious, independent · Newark
- Address
- 17 N Chalfant Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind
- religious, independent
- Students, 2023-24
- 38
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 10
- Students per teacher
- 3.8
- Phone
- (740) 899-4296
- NCES private school ID
- A2302176
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Newark Catholic High SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Newark
- Address
- 1 Green Wave Dr, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind
- Catholic
- Students, 2023-24
- 207
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 20
- Students per teacher
- 10.35
- Phone
- (740) 344-3594
- NCES private school ID
- 01059756
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St Francis De Sales SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Newark
- Address
- 38 Granville St, Newark, OH 43055
- Kind
- Catholic
- Students, 2023-24
- 271
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 15.3
- Students per teacher
- 17.7124
- Phone
- (740) 345-4049
- NCES private school ID
- 01059767
Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.
Bridges rated poor (1)
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Riverside Drive over Log Pond RunPoor · built 1935
- Condition
- Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale
- What it is
- Bridge
- Built
- 1935
- Length
- 10 ft
- Owner
- City
- Vehicles a day
- 800
- Coordinates
- 40.06408, -82.40021
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.
Public libraries (3)
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Emerson R. Miller BranchBranch · Newark
- Address
- 990 W. Main St., Newark, OH 43055
- What it is
- Branch
- Library system
- Licking County Library
- Open
- 2,496 hours a year, 52 weeks
- Building
- 8,400 sq ft
- System's visits, FY2024
- 217,984
- System's loans, FY2024
- 943,592
- People the system serves
- 118,136
- Phone
- (740) 344-2155
IMLS Public Libraries Survey (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Licking County LibraryCentral library · Newark
- Address
- 101 W. Main St., Newark, OH 43055
- What it is
- Central library
- Library system
- Licking County Library
- Open
- 2,496 hours a year, 52 weeks
- Building
- 70,000 sq ft
- System's visits, FY2024
- 217,984
- System's loans, FY2024
- 943,592
- People the system serves
- 118,136
- Phone
- (740) 349-5500
IMLS Public Libraries Survey (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Licking County Library (Newark)Bookmobile stop · Newark
- Address
- 101 W. Main St., Newark, OH 43055
- What it is
- Bookmobile stop
- Library system
- Licking County Library
- Open
- 728 hours a year, 52 weeks
- System's visits, FY2024
- 217,984
- System's loans, FY2024
- 943,592
- People the system serves
- 118,136
- Phone
- (614) 345-8972
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 (6)
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Heisey Collectors Of AmericaMuseum · Newark
- What it is
- Museum
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.05679, -82.41023
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.
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Historic Hudson Community AssociationHistorical society · Newark
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.07189, -82.41298
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.
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Licking County Historical SocietyHistorical society · Newark
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.05694, -82.40899
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.
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Licking County Historical Society MuseumsHistorical society · Newark
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.06004, -82.40008
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.
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Licking County Veterans Memorial Education CenterHistorical society · Newark
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.06004, -82.40008
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.
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Works: Ohio Center For History Art And TechnologyScience or technology museum · Newark
- What it is
- Science or technology museum
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.05669, -82.39876
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)
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Licking County Sheriff's OfficeNewark
- Address
- 155 East Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- Coordinates
- 40.05886, -82.39487
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Police DepartmentNewark
- Address
- 39 South 4th Street, Newark, OH 43055-5435
- Coordinates
- 40.05562, -82.40387
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 (9)
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KIA OF NEWARK CPF50 DC fast1 DC fast · 3 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 1475 Mt Vernon Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- Ports
- 1 DC fast · 3 Level 2
- Plugs
- CCS, J1772
- Network
- ChargePoint Network
- Hours
- 24 hours daily
- Phone
- 888-758-4389
Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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LMH 2000 TAMARACK 12 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 2000 Tamarack Road, Newark, OH 43055
- 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 ↗
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LMH LMH ED LOT 22 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 1320 West Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- 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 ↗
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LMH STATION 12 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 1320 W Main St, Newark, OH 43055
- 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 ↗
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LP FLATS LP FLATS 12 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 1401 Log Pond Dr, Newark, OH 43055
- 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 ↗
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NEWARK OHIO STATION 2 DC fast2 DC fast · Newark
- Address
- 51 E Church St, Newark, OH 43055
- Ports
- 2 DC fast
- Plugs
- CCS, CHAdeMO
- Network
- ChargePoint Network
- Hours
- 24 hours daily
- Phone
- 888-758-4389
Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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PNB NTT2 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 57 N 3rd St, Newark, OH 43055
- 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 ↗
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PNB PARK 222 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 22 S 1st St, Newark, OH 43055
- 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 ↗
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Weekly Electric2 Level 2 · Newark
- Address
- 1960 Mount Vernon Road, Newark, OH 43055
- Ports
- 2 Level 2
- Plugs
- J1772
- Network
- Blink Network
- Hours
- 24 hours daily
- Phone
- 888-998-2546
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.
Superfund sites (3)
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Legend Smelting and RecyclingSuperfund program · Newark
- Address
- 139 South 21St Street (Location Where 1995 Fire Oc, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
- EPA program ID
- OHN000521975
- EPA registry ID
- 110071524217
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Quality Chemical SiteSuperfund program · Newark
- Address
- 217 South 21St Street, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
- EPA program ID
- OHN000520663
- EPA registry ID
- 110071102306
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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S-21 NewarkSuperfund program · Newark
- Address
- 209 and 217 South 21St Street, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
- EPA program ID
- OHN000520478
- EPA registry ID
- 110071102293
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS) and National Priorities List sites. Many program sites were assessed and needed no cleanup.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (9)
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American National Can CoToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 950 Brice St., Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (closed)
- EPA program ID
- 43055MRCNN950BR
- EPA registry ID
- 110002109058
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Anomatic CorpToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 1650 Tamarack Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055NMTCC1650T
- EPA registry ID
- 110000381621
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Arboris LlcToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 1780 Tamarack Rd, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055RGNCT1780T
- EPA registry ID
- 110042056976
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Composix CoToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 23 Sisal St, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055MCHLN23SIS
- EPA registry ID
- 110042037426
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Modern WeldingToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 72 Modern Way, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055MDRNW72WAL
- EPA registry ID
- 110000381612
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Electro Plating IncToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 30-32 East Harrison Street, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (closed)
- EPA program ID
- 43055NWRKL3032E
- EPA registry ID
- 110000381630
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Newark Processing Co, Inc.Toxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 1367 E. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055NWRKP1367E
- EPA registry ID
- 110001628212
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Owens Corning Insulating Systems, LlcToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 400 Case Ave., Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055WNSCRCASEA
- EPA registry ID
- 110000498710
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Tamarack Farms DairyToxics Release Inventory · Newark
- Address
- 1701 Tamarack Drive, Newark, OH 43055
- County
- Licking County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
- EPA program ID
- 43055THKRG1701T
- EPA registry ID
- 110000381667
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.
Stations and terminals (1)
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Central Ohio Technical CollegeIntercity bus stop · Greyhound Lines
- What it is
- Intercity bus stop
- Operator
- Greyhound Lines
- City
- Newark
- Coordinates
- 40.07069, -82.44630
BTS Intermodal Passenger Connectivity Database (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: BTS Intermodal Passenger Connectivity Database and National Transit Map (2025). Bus stops are counted on the card and drawn on the full map.
Spills reported since 2021 (25)
-
Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2025-09-23 · Newark
- Reported
- 2025-09-23
- What spilled
- Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2509EPA0001594
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2025-08-19 · Newark
- Reported
- 2025-08-19
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2508EPA0001410
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)2025-06-06 · Newark
- Reported
- 2025-06-06
- What spilled
- Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)
- Largest amount reported
- 10 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2506EPA0000922
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Ink / Printing Ink2025-04-18 · Newark Twp
- Reported
- 2025-04-18
- What spilled
- Ink / Printing Ink
- Largest amount reported
- 45 gallons
- Where
- Newark Twp, Fairfield County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2504EPA0000592
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2024-11-26 · Newark
- Reported
- 2024-11-26
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 36 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2411EPA0001941
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Unknown2024-11-20 · Newark
- Reported
- 2024-11-20
- What spilled
- Material Unknown
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2411EPA0001907
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Paint Waste(S)2024-10-28 · Newark
- Reported
- 2024-10-28
- What spilled
- Paint Waste(S)
- Largest amount reported
- 1 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2410EPA0001807
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material White2024-10-20 · Newark
- Reported
- 2024-10-20
- What spilled
- Material White
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2410EPA0001771
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2024-10-08 · Newark
- Reported
- 2024-10-08
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2410EPA0001716
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Freon2024-02-05 · Newark
- Reported
- 2024-02-05
- What spilled
- Freon
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2402EPA0000193
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)2023-09-12 · Newark
- Reported
- 2023-09-12
- What spilled
- Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)
- Largest amount reported
- 10 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2309EPA0001599
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2023-08-07 · Newark
- Reported
- 2023-08-07
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 30 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2308EPA0001357
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sulfur (S)2023-08-07 · Newark
- Reported
- 2023-08-07
- What spilled
- Sulfur (S)
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2308EPA0001356
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Natural Gas2023-06-27 · Newark
- Reported
- 2023-06-27
- What spilled
- Natural Gas
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2306EPA0001059
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2023-04-01 · Newark
- Reported
- 2023-04-01
- What spilled
- Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
- Reached a waterway
- Licking River
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2304EPA0000499
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)2023-01-07 · Newark
- Reported
- 2023-01-07
- What spilled
- Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)
- Largest amount reported
- 2 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2301EPA0000040
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2022-12-05 · Newark
- Reported
- 2022-12-05
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2212EPA0001798
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2022-07-17 · Newark
- Reported
- 2022-07-17
- What spilled
- Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2207EPA0001083
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Pcb Reached water2022-05-22 · Newark
- Reported
- 2022-05-22
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 50 gallons
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2205EPA0000757
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2022-04-18 · Newark
- Reported
- 2022-04-18
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2204EPA0000526
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle2022-02-07 · Newark
- Reported
- 2022-02-07
- What spilled
- Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
- Largest amount reported
- 55 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2202EPA0000144
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2021-09-24 · Newark
- Reported
- 2021-09-24
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 1,100 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2109EPA0001516
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Crude2021-09-15 · Newark
- Reported
- 2021-09-15
- What spilled
- Oil Crude
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2109EPA0001459
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2026-03-16 · Newark
- Reported
- 2026-03-16
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 50 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2603EPA0000402
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
-
Oil Transformer Non Pcb2026-03-13 · Newark
- Reported
- 2026-03-13
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 30 gallons
- Where
- Newark, Licking County
- Ohio EPA district office
- CDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2603EPA0000371
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 Newark, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43055 Newark | 80% | North Fork of the Licking River, drawn directly at riverbank intake screens beside the plant at the north end of Newark | 11.5 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1960 | Newark City · 2.5 stars overall | 6.1% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Newark, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Who holds office
| Office | Name | Party | Term ends | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor | Jeff Hall | (740) 670-7510 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | ||
| Council Member, At-Large (President) | Jeff Harris | 2027 | (740) 403-0481 · jaharris@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, At-Large | Dustin Neely | 2027 | (740) 877-8489 · dneely@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, At-Large | Bill Cost Jr. | 2027 | (740) 403-8625 · bcostjr@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, At-Large | Bradley Chute | 2027 | (740) 344-1338 · bchute@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 1 | Jim Lemley | 2027 | (740) 328-7083 · jlemley@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 2 | Beth Bline | 2029 | (740) 258-8659 · bbline@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 3 | Molly Ingold | 2029 | (740) 975-4967 · mingold@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 4 | Mark Labutis | 2029 | (740) 527-0825 · mlabutis@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 5 | Spencer Barker | 2029 | (740) 877-1770 · sbarker@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 6 | Doug Marmie | 2029 | (740) 403-9340 · dmarmie@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| Council Member, Ward 7 | Michelle Newman | 2029 | (740) 919-6617 · mnewman@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | |
| City Auditor | Ryan T. Bubb | (740) 670-7560 · rbubb@newarkohio.net 40 W. Main Street, Newark, OH 43055 · website | ||
| City Treasurer | Brad Feightner | (740) 670-7580 · bfeightner@newarkohio.net 15 N 3rd St, Second Floor, Newark, Ohio 43055 · website |
Roster as of 2026-09-18: county board of elections.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-03 | Issue: City of Newark - Electric Aggregation | 2,866 | 2,864 | Passed (50.02% for) |
| 2022-05-03 | Issue: City of Newark - Gas Aggregation | 2,851 | 2,807 | Passed (50.39% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-02 | Treasurer (unofficial count) | Bradley B. Feightner, Jr. 4,595, 100.0% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 7 (unofficial count) | Donna E. Ellis-Shaw 234, 41.86%; Colton Rine 325, 58.14% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 6 (unofficial count) | Zachary Dobbelaer 281, 26.66%; Doug Marmie 773, 73.34% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 5 (unofficial count) | Jonathan Lang 900, 64.98%; Mollie Prasher 485, 35.02% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 4 (unofficial count) | Joshua Jenkins 287, 33.18%; Mark Labutis 578, 66.82% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 3 (unofficial count) | David Lipstreu 380, 38.93%; Jeff Rath 596, 61.07% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 2 (unofficial count) | Jeremy Eugene Blake 206, 38.08%; Beth Bline 335, 61.92% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council, Ward 1 (unofficial count) | Michael B. Houser 273, 68.42%; Michael O. Reagan 126, 31.58% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council at Large (unofficial count) | Spencer A. Barker 3,253, 55.98%; Bill Cost, Jr. 2,315, 39.84%; Daniel Crawford 243, 4.18% |
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 Health Indicators (the Auditor of State's 17 measures; critical / cautionary / positive): 2020 0 / 2 / 14; 2021 0 / 3 / 13; 2022 0 / 2 / 14; 2023 0 / 2 / 14; 2024 0 / 4 / 12; 2025 0 / 4 / 11.
- OP&F Examination, 2024, released 2026-04-14
- Financial Audit, 2024, released 2026-01-06
- Financial Audit, 2023, released 2024-08-22
The county
Licking County: 17 ZIP codes, 38 cities, villages and townships, 160,939 people.
Nearby places
Rain and snow
How much has actually fallen on Newark, day by day, from 1893 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 1.46 in
- 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30
- rain so far in 2026
- 51.9 in
- 15.2 in above normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 13.8 in
- a normal year brings 16.7 in
- a normal year
- 43.1 in
- average of 30 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 1.46 | — | 30 |
| September 2026 | 7.30 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 10.02 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 4.21 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 5.63 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 8.25 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 3.48 | — | 30 |
| March 2026 | 6.91 | — | 31 |
| February 2026 | 2.54 | 1.3 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 2.10 | 12.5 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 2.44 | 10.0 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 2.81 | 0.9 | 30 |
| Wettest year | 2018 — 57.1 in |
|---|---|
| Driest year | 1963 — 26.9 in |
| Snowiest year | 1910 — 62.5 in |
| Wettest day on record | 14 September 1979 — 4.16 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day | 14 January 1968 — 12.99 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground | 28 January 1918 — 19.45 in |
69% of these days are measurements from a gauge inside Newark; the rest are estimated from the nearest gauges around it.
48,836 days of records, 1893-01-01 to 2026-10-30. 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 2026-11-01): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-11-01 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 Newark: 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
- 260
- those placed on the map inside Newark
| Program | Facilities and sites |
|---|---|
| Wastewater and stormwater discharge | 71 |
| Hazardous waste | 28 |
| State sewer loans | 27 |
| Site assessment | 21 |
| Sewer and water-line construction | 19 |
| Air pollution | 18 |
| Voluntary cleanup | 18 |
| Contaminated-site cleanup | 17 |
| Public drinking water | 9 |
| Wetland and stream fill | 7 |
| State water loans | 6 |
| Medical waste | 3 |
| 11 smaller programs |
| Date | Facility or site | What |
|---|---|---|
| ODOT FORMER DISTRICT 5 HEADQUARTERS | Hazardous waste plan | |
| MODERN WELDING COMPANY OF OHIO INC | Air pollution report | |
| LICKING CO HIGHWAY GARAGE | Scrap tires cleanup response | |
| OWENS CORNING INSULATING SYSTEMS LLC | Industrial landfills permit | |
| BUCKEYE LAKE, VILLAGE OF PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| LICKING COUNTY PRESCOTT ESTATES PWS | Public drinking water notice of violation | |
| LICKING COUNTY HARBOR HILLS PWS | Public drinking water notice of violation | |
| ALIVE VINEYARD PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| NEWARK CITY PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| SHERMAN RECYCLING SERVICES | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| NEWARK CITY PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| TECTUM INC NEWARK PLANT | Industrial landfills plan | |
| ODOT FORMER DISTRICT 5 HEADQUARTERS | Hazardous waste plan | |
| WARNER FARMS DEVELOPMENT II | Wetland and stream fill permit | |
| LICKING VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| STEWART ROAD FARM FIELD | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| ODOT FORMER DISTRICT 5 HEADQUARTERS | Hazardous waste compliance letter | |
| NEWARK CITY PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| PICKLEVILLE | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| NEWARK CITY PWS | Public drinking water compliance letter | |
| WEST CANAL PARK | Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit | |
| WARNER FARMS DEVELOPMENT | Wetland and stream fill permit | |
| OWENS CORNING INSULATING SYSTEMS LLC | Industrial landfills inspection | |
| LICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | Medical waste registration | |
| LICKING CO HIGHWAY GARAGE | Scrap tires cleanup response |
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 Newark, Ohio in?
Newark is a city in Licking County, Ohio, with 50,043 residents.
When was Newark, Ohio founded?
Newark was settled 1802 (cabins built at the site this year); laid out 1802, laid out by William C. Schenck; the plat was formally recorded in Fairfield County's records on March 16, 1803; incorporated 1813. Founders on record: General William C. Schenck, acting for himself and as agent for partners John N. Cummins and John Burnet. Source
How did Newark, Ohio get its name?
Newark was named by its founder and principal proprietor, General William C. Source
What ZIP code is Newark, Ohio?
Most of Newark is in ZIP code 43055.
Where does Newark, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Newark (Newark City): North Fork of the Licking River, drawn directly at riverbank intake screens beside the plant at the north end of Newark.
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