Local events in Poland Township, Mahoning County
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How Poland Township, Mahoning County began
Poland Township was the first parcel surveyed in the entire Connecticut Western Reserve: surveyors Moses Warren and Amos Spafford planted a starting marker at its southeast corner on July 23, 1796, and it was drawn by lottery among nine Connecticut Land Company proprietors in January 1798. Turhand Kirtland, the company's western land agent, surveyed the township and helped lay out neighboring Youngstown before Jonathan Fowler and his family, arriving from Guilford, Connecticut in May 1799, became its first permanent settlers on Yellow Creek. Coal, iron ore and limestone drew early industry -- the Hopewell Furnace, built about 1802-1803, is counted the first industrial works in the Western Reserve -- and Poland Village grew into a market town that incorporated in 1866, later sending Poland Seminary graduate William McKinley off to the Civil War from a tavern porch on its main street. Today Poland Township surrounds the still-intact historic village, with the South Main Street district, several Yellow Creek furnace and bridge sites, and the Kirtland family's houses among its National Register listings.
Settled 1799 (Jonathan Fowler and family, first permanent settlers, arrive in May), platted Surveyed 1796 as Township One, Range One, the first parcel surveyed in the Western Reserve; distributed by lottery to nine Connecticut Land Company proprietors in January 1798, incorporated Poland Village incorporated August 7, 1866; township organized as part of Youngstown civil township in 1802, later separately incorporated, by Surveyed for the Connecticut Land Company by Moses Warren and Amos Spafford (1796) and Turhand Kirtland (1798); settled by Jonathan Fowler of Guilford, Connecticut.
Where the name comes from
Accounts of the name disagree. The village's Wikipedia article says Poland was named to honor the country of Poland for its support during the American Revolutionary War, possibly for a specific Polish hero, though an alternative 1905 account attributes it to an early proprietor named George Poland. The Poland Township Bicentennial Society's own local history instead states that founders Turhand Kirtland and Jonathan Fowler simply wanted a name for Township One, Range One that would not be duplicated elsewhere and so would not be confused in mail delivery -- with no mention of a Polish namesake. Both accounts are given here since the sources do not agree.
Before the town
No Native American village, trail, or site specific to Poland Township is documented in the sources consulted, though the Bicentennial Society's local history records that Native people continued to pass through the settlement in its first years: Jonathan Fowler's infant daughter Rachel, born February 16, 1800 and said to be the first white child born in the township, was repeatedly taken and held for hours by Native visitors curious to see a white infant, unsettling her mother, who nonetheless allowed it rather than risk giving offense. The township lies within the Connecticut Western Reserve, land ceded by the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi in the 1805 Treaty of Fort Industry.
Timeline
- — Surveyors Moses Warren and Amos Spafford, working for the Connecticut Land Company, arrive on July 23 at the southeast corner of the Western Reserve and set a marker there, the starting point for surveying Township One, Range One -- present Poland Township, the first township surveyed in the Reserve.
- — The Western Reserve lands are distributed by lottery in January; Township One goes to nine proprietors including Turhand Kirtland. Kirtland, the company's western land agent, reaches the Mahoning Valley about August 1 to survey a highway and assists John Young in laying out Youngstown before surveying Poland Township.
- — Jonathan Fowler, his wife (a sister of Turhand Kirtland), and infant daughter arrive from Guilford, Connecticut in May and become the township's first permanent settlers, camping under an oak tree near Yellow Creek before their cabin is built.
- — John Struthers purchases 400 acres and a mill site from Turhand Kirtland and settles on October 19 on land that becomes the City of Struthers; he builds the township's first grist mill the same year.
- — Daniel and James Heaton build the Hopewell Furnace, a small charcoal blast furnace on the banks of Yellow Creek, beginning industrial iron-making in the Western Reserve.
- — Jonathan Fowler erects a stone tavern building in the village, later known as the Sparrow Tavern; the settlement is known locally as "Fowler's" for a time.
- — John Struthers and Robert Montgomery build a second iron furnace below the Heaton stack on Yellow Creek; in 1807 the new owners buy out the Heaton furnace's ore and wood rights.
- — Poland Township's early iron furnaces cease operating during the War of 1812 as ironmaking shifts to the Mill Creek and Mahoning River valleys; the furnace sites are not fully abandoned until the 1930s.
- — Mahoning County is organized by the Ohio Legislature on February 16 (effective March 1), formed from Trumbull County townships including Poland together with townships taken from Columbiana County.
- — William McKinley, a Poland Seminary graduate, enlists in the Union Army on the porch of the old stone tavern (by then the Sparrow Tavern) on Poland's main street.
- — Poland Village is incorporated August 7 after a petition signed by 63 voters; Andrew Campbell and Seth H. Truesdale serve as its first temporary mayor and recorder.
- — The Jared P. Kirtland House in Poland is added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 13.
Stories
The first line drawn in the Western Reserve
Every township boundary in Ohio's Connecticut Western Reserve traces back, in principle, to a single wooden marker on what is now State Line Road in Poland Township. On July 23, 1796, surveyors Moses Warren and Amos Spafford reached the spot where they believed the forty-first parallel met the Pennsylvania line -- they were off by half a mile, as later surveys showed -- and planted a marker there as the starting point for laying out the entire Reserve into townships. Because it sat at that starting corner, Poland became Township One, Range One, the first parcel surveyed of the whole 5,700-square-mile tract Connecticut had reserved for itself. When the lottery distributing the land was held in January 1798, Township One went to nine Connecticut Land Company proprietors, among them Turhand Kirtland, the company's western agent, who arrived that August to survey the township himself -- after first helping John Young lay out the neighboring settlement that became Youngstown.
A future president enlists on a tavern porch
In 1804 Jonathan Fowler, the township's first permanent settler, built a stone tavern in the young village on Yellow Creek, a building later known as the Sparrow Tavern and, for years, the home of one Charles Austin. It served as a stagecoach stop on the road between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and, in its early years, doubled as Fowler's store. Decades later, in 1861, it was on that tavern's porch that a young graduate of nearby Poland Seminary named William McKinley enlisted in the Union Army -- the beginning of a career that would carry him to the governorship of Ohio and, in 1897, the presidency of the United States. The tavern survives, photographed as early as 1861, as one of the oldest standing buildings on Poland's Main Street.
The valley's first furnace
Before Youngstown's mills, before the Brier Hill furnace, before the whole Mahoning Valley became a national byword for steel, there was a small charcoal stack on Yellow Creek in Poland Township. Around 1802 or 1803, brothers Daniel and James Heaton arranged for rights to dig iron ore and cut charcoal timber from the surrounding land and built what local histories call the first industrial operation anywhere in the Connecticut Western Reserve. A second, larger furnace went up nearby in 1806, built by John Struthers -- who had already founded the settlement that became Struthers -- and Robert Montgomery; the new owners bought out the Heaton brothers' rights the following year. The furnaces ran only until the War of 1812 disrupted operations, after which Mahoning Valley ironmaking shifted downstream to the Mill Creek and Mahoning River valleys where Youngstown's mills would eventually rise. The abandoned furnace sites themselves were not fully dismantled until the 1930s, more than a century after Poland's brief turn as the valley's industrial pioneer.
Photographs
Photo: Unknown photographer, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · polandhistoricalsociety.com · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org
Historic places
2 places in Poland Township, Mahoning County on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.
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Lake Hamilton DamStructure · Struthers · listed 1984
- Address
- 1.5 miles NE of Poland off SR 616
- Where
- Struthers, Mahoning County · ZIP 44471
- What it is
- Structure
- Listed on the National Register
- 1984
- NRIS reference number
- 84003774
- Coordinates
- 41.03694, -80.59162
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
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Poland Center SchoolBuilding · Poland · listed 1984
- Address
- US 224 and Struthers Rd.
- Where
- Poland, Mahoning County · ZIP 44514
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1984
- NRIS reference number
- 84003779
- Coordinates
- 41.02379, -80.56660
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file. The listing year is shown where NPS's certification date agrees with the listing's reference number. Listing recognizes significance; it does not restrict a private owner.
Water
Evans Lake, an Aqua Ohio-owned impoundment of Yellow Creek in southeastern Mahoning County (near New Springfield), supplying Aqua Ohio's treatment plant in Poland that serves Struthers and nearby communities. The water here
- Aqua Ohio - Struthers90% of residentsEvans Lake (Yellow Creek impoundment)
- Youngstown City10% of residentsMeander Creek Reservoir + Berlin Reservoir (Mahoning River basin)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Poland Township, Mahoning County's boundary: 2 fire and EMS stations, 1 high-hazard dam, 2 public schools, 1 private school, 1 museum, 1 police station, 7 shale and injection wells and 9 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Fire and EMS stations (2)
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Western Reserve Joint Fire District Station 92Poland
- Address
- 7519 Youngstown - Pittsburgh Road, Poland, OH 44514
- Coordinates
- 41.00772, -80.59815
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Western Reserve Joint Fire District Station 93Lowellville
- Address
- 2040 South Hubbard Road, Lowellville, OH 44436
- Coordinates
- 41.05426, -80.54391
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.
High-hazard dams (1)
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Lake Hamilton Dam PoorYellow Creek · condition: poor
- Hazard class
- High: a failure would probably cost a life
- Condition
- Poor (assessed 04/01/2023)
- River or stream
- Yellow Creek
- Purpose
- Recreation;Water Supply
- Type
- Concrete
- Height
- 70 ft
- Storage
- 3,273 acre-feet
- Completed
- 1905
- Owner type
- Public Utility
- County
- Mahoning County
- Nearest town (NID)
- Struthers
- Last inspection
- 12/14/2021
- Emergency action plan
- Yes
- NID ID
- OH00629
National Inventory of Dams record ↗ National Inventory of Dams (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams, August 2026. "High hazard" rates what a failure would cost downstream, not how likely one is; the condition is the state's assessment.
Public schools (2)
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Dobbins Early Learning CenterPoland
- Address
- 3030 Dobbins Rd, Poland, OH 44514
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 51
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 1
- NCES school ID
- 390483406141
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Poland Seminary High School3.5 of 5 stars · Poland
- Address
- 3199 Dobbins Rd, Poland, OH 44514
- School district
- Poland Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 813
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 42.03
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 83.2%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 99.1%
- Ohio building IRN
- 030452
- NCES school ID
- 390483403218
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: NCES EDGE public school locations 2024-25 and Common Core of Data 2023-24 (type, students, teachers); Ohio School Report Cards 2025-26 (Department of Education and Workforce), matched by name within the district.
Private schools (1)
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Holy Family Elementary SchoolPrivate, Catholic · Youngstown
- Address
- 2731 Center Rd, Youngstown, OH 44514
- Kind
- Catholic
- Students, 2023-24
- 246
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 21
- Students per teacher
- 11.7143
- Phone
- (330) 757-3713
- NCES private school ID
- 01603493
Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.
Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)
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Poland Township Historical SocietyHistorical society · Poland
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Poland
- Coordinates
- 41.01176, -80.61284
Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Source: IMLS Museum Data Files, 2018.
Police stations (1)
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Poland Township Police DepartmentPoland
- Address
- 3339 Dobbins Road, Poland, OH 44514
- Coordinates
- 41.00457, -80.58823
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.
Shale and injection wells (7)
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Poland-Cll1 1AhUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099231850200
- Coordinates
- 41.01279, -80.54305
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Poland-Cll2 1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099231990000
- Coordinates
- 41.01370, -80.53609
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Poland-Cll2 2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099231970000
- Coordinates
- 41.01370, -80.53614
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Poland-Cll2 3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099232000000
- Coordinates
- 41.01370, -80.53620
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Poland-Cll2 4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099231980000
- Coordinates
- 41.01369, -80.53624
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Poland-Cll2 5HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099231960000
- Coordinates
- 41.01370, -80.53630
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Poland-Cll2 6HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Hilcorp Energy Company
- County
- Mahoning County
- API well number
- 34099231920000
- Coordinates
- 41.01370, -80.53636
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
Source: ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources well inventory (September 2026): drilled Utica, Marcellus and horizontal wells and Class II injection wells not plugged. Older vertical wells are on the full map.
Spills reported since 2021 (9)
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Material Green2025-06-07 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2025-06-07
- What spilled
- Material Green
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2506EPA0000932
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2024-01-31 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2024-01-31
- What spilled
- Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2401EPA0000164
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Unknown2023-09-18 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2023-09-18
- What spilled
- Material Unknown
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2309EPA0001622
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2023-06-07 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2023-06-07
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2306EPA0000941
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Undetermined / Other2023-03-26 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2023-03-26
- What spilled
- Material Undetermined / Other
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2303EPA0000452
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Leachate2023-01-14 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2023-01-14
- What spilled
- Leachate
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2301EPA0000076
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil Reached water2022-01-06 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2022-01-06
- What spilled
- Fuel Oil/ Home Heating / Heating Oil
- Reached a waterway
- 50 - Mahoning River
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2201EPA0000017
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2026-05-19 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2026-05-19
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 2 gallons
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2605EPA0000844
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2026-04-19 · Poland Twp
- Reported
- 2026-04-19
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 15 gallons
- Where
- Poland Twp, Mahoning County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2604EPA0000658
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 Poland Township, Mahoning County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
Local government
Who holds office in Poland Township, Mahoning County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-19 | Issue: Proposed Tax Levy Poland Township Poland Township | 2,787 | 991 | Passed (73.77% for) |
| 2023-11-07 | Issue: Poland Township additional of 0.98 mill for police dept. Poland Township | 2,847 | 3,231 | Failed (46.84% for) |
| 2022-11-08 | Issue: Poland Township renewal of 2 mills for current expenses Poland Township | 4,147 | 2,379 | Passed (63.55% for) |
| 2022-11-08 | Issue: Poland Township Precinct 2 POT 2 | 698 | 200 | Passed (77.73% for) |
| 2021-11-02 | Issue: Poland Township renewal of 2 mills for current expenses Poland Township | 1,799 | 953 | Passed (65.37% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-07 | Township Trustee Poland Township | Eric Ungaro 5,614, 100.0% |
| 2023-11-07 | Township Fiscal Officer Poland Township | Paul J. Canter 5,000, 100.0% |
| 2021-11-02 | Township Trustees Poland Township | Edward R. Kempers 2,179, 51.4%; Joanne Wollet 2,060, 48.6% |
| 2019-11-05 | Township Trustee Poland Township | Ricky Morrison 978, 27.94%; Eric Ungaro 2,522, 72.06% |
| 2019-11-05 | Township Fiscal Officer Poland Township | Paul J. Canter 2,504, 100.0% |
Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- Agreed Upon Procedures, 2023 to 2024, released 2025-09-09
- Financial Audit, 2021 to 2022, released 2024-08-29
The county
Mahoning County: 28 ZIP codes, 23 cities, villages and townships, 227,071 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Poland Township, Ohio in?
Poland Township, Mahoning County is a township in Mahoning County, Ohio, with 12,201 residents.
When was Poland Township, Ohio founded?
Poland Township, Mahoning County was settled 1799 (Jonathan Fowler and family, first permanent settlers, arrive in May); laid out Surveyed 1796 as Township One, Range One, the first parcel surveyed in the Western Reserve; distributed by lottery to nine Connecticut Land Company proprietors in January 1798; incorporated Poland Village incorporated August 7, 1866; township organized as part of Youngstown civil township in 1802, later separately incorporated. Founders on record: Surveyed for the Connecticut Land Company by Moses Warren and Amos Spafford (1796) and Turhand Kirtland (1798); settled by Jonathan Fowler of Guilford, Connecticut. Source
How did Poland Township, Ohio get its name?
Accounts of the name disagree. Source
What ZIP code is Poland Township, Ohio?
Poland Township, Mahoning County is served by ZIP codes 44514, 44436 and 44471; 44514 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Poland Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Poland Township, Mahoning County (Aqua Ohio - Struthers): Evans Lake, an Aqua Ohio-owned impoundment of Yellow Creek in southeastern Mahoning County (near New Springfield), supplying Aqua Ohio's treatment plant in Poland that serves Struthers and nearby communities.
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