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Reynoldsburg

City · Franklin County · 41,141 residents · 2.5% municipal income tax

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  1. American Red Cross Blood Drive

    10 a.m. to 2 p.m. · Reynoldsburg · Free · From Columbus Metropolitan Library

  2. Family Storytime

    11 to 11:30 a.m. · Reynoldsburg · Free · From Columbus Metropolitan Library

  3. After School Snack

    4:15 to 4:45 p.m. · Reynoldsburg · Free · From Columbus Metropolitan Library

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How Reynoldsburg began

Reynoldsburg grew up on the Cumberland (National) Road in Truro Township, where storekeeper James C. Reynolds persuaded landowner John French to plat a village on his farm in 1831; the plat was registered that November and, despite French's own preference for ‘French Town,’ was officially listed as ‘Reynoldsburgh’ by 1832, for the merchant whose store anchored it. The Crawford family, the area's first known settlers, had arrived by 1802, and the village was incorporated in 1839, becoming a city in 1960. It is known today as the birthplace of the modern tomato: horticulturist Alexander W. Livingston spent two decades stabilizing the wild tomato on his Graham Road farm and released the first commercially successful variety, the Paragon, in 1870, a legacy the city has marked with a Tomato Festival every August since 1965. Though Reynoldsburg is usually listed under Franklin County, where most of its roughly 41,000 residents live, the city's own boundary also crosses into Fairfield County — where Blacklick Creek briefly leaves and re-enters Franklin County through the city's southwest side — and into Licking County to the east, making it, by its own city history, the first Franklin County city to expand into two neighboring counties.

Settled 1802, platted 1831, incorporated 1839, by John French (platted the village on his farmland); James C. Reynolds, the storekeeper it was named for, persuaded him to do it.

Where the name comes from

Reynoldsburg is named for James C. Reynolds (1806-1854), a merchant who arrived around 1831, boarded with landowner John French, and opened a store supplying whiskey, molasses, calico and work clothes to the crews building the National Road through Truro Township. French, on whose farmland the village was platted, is remembered locally as having wanted to call it ‘French Town’ (Ohio Town Names gives the one-word ‘Frenchtown’) after his own family. Instead, when the plat was officially listed the following year, it appeared as ‘Reynoldsburgh’ — possibly, the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society suggests, simply because mail for the settlement was being delivered to Reynolds's store. The post office opened under that spelling in 1833; Wikipedia, citing postal records, dates the change to the modern spelling ‘Reynoldsburg’ to 1893.

Before the town

No named Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Mingo or Miami village, camp or burial ground within Reynoldsburg's own footprint turned up in the sources checked. The broader county-level record includes the Adena and Hopewell mound builders, the historic nations who held and hunted the Scioto valley, the 1795 Treaty of Greenville that ceded this ground, and the Mingo village at the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy. What is recorded locally is thinner but specific to place. Blacklick Creek, which still forms Reynoldsburg's western and southern edge (and briefly crosses into Fairfield County on the city's southwest side), carries a name that Wikipedia's sourced account traces to Native observation: settlers were told the creek was named for the way animals were seen licking its black-colored, salt-bearing rocks. Main Street through town, later the National Road and today US 40, is described by the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society as having begun as 'an animal and Indian trail,' corduroyed with logs and posts by arriving settlers before the National Road was built over it in 1831; no source names the trail or the people who used it. An 1885 manuscript history of the village by local resident David Graham, written while people who remembered the 1820s and 1830s were still living, records that early settlers found a Native sugar camp on the ground where the village later stood, and that a grave marked with poles — still visible as late as 1817, by his account — held a man remembered locally as having died there in an accident while sugaring; Graham does not name a nation or give a firm date. The same account describes several small mounds and earthwork 'forts' that could still be traced around Reynoldsburg in 1885: one about ten feet high near the southeast corner of the village corporation line; a square earthwork, twenty-eight to thirty rods on a side, on Ed. Parkison's farm northwest of town; a circular earthwork sixty to seventy feet around, a half-mile south of the village on the old Lancaster road; and a larger earthwork, its walls ten to fifteen feet above a ten-to-twelve-foot ditch, about two and a half miles northeast toward Jefferson Township. None were mapped or excavated by a trained archaeologist so far as the sources checked record, most had already been plowed down by the time Graham wrote, and no source ties any of them to a specific culture or people — they are noted here as Graham recorded them, not as confirmed sites. Truro Township itself, which Reynoldsburg grew up in, lay within the Refugee Tract, land Congress began setting aside in 1801 for Canadians and Nova Scotians who had aided the American cause in the Revolutionary War and lost their homes for it; the township took its own name from Truro, Nova Scotia, the hometown of early settler families such as the Taylors. The tract, and all of what became Franklin County, lay inside the much larger cession the United States took from the Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape, Miami, Ottawa and other nations at the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.

  • Blacklick Creek salt lick (other) — Blacklick Creek, Reynoldsburg's western and southern city boundary, undated, before white settlement (en.wikipedia.org)
  • Trail under Main Street (later the National Road) (trail) — Main Street through Reynoldsburg, later the National Road / US 40, pre-1831 (rths.info)
  • Sugar camp and grave (camp) — on the ground where the village of Reynoldsburg was later built, undated, before 1802 (genealogytrails.com)
  • Mound near the southeast corporation line (mound) — southeast edge of the old Reynoldsburg village corporation, undated (precontact) (genealogytrails.com)
  • Square earthwork on the Parkison farm (earthwork) — Ed. Parkison's farm, northwest of Reynoldsburg, undated (precontact) (genealogytrails.com)
  • Circular earthwork on the old Lancaster road (earthwork) — half a mile south of Reynoldsburg, west side of the old Lancaster road, undated (precontact) (genealogytrails.com)
  • Earthwork toward Jefferson Township (earthwork) — about 2.5 miles northeast of Reynoldsburg, on the former Dr. Lunn farm, undated (precontact) (genealogytrails.com)

Timeline

  1. — James and Martha Crawford (given as 'Margaret' in some secondary accounts) become the first known pioneer family in the area that becomes Reynoldsburg; their daughter Margaret later marries early settler James Graham.
  2. — John and Jane French settle in the fall on land along the future National Road route, in what is still known locally as 'Old Reynoldsburg.'
  3. — Storekeeper James C. Reynolds persuades John French to plat his farmland into a village (registered November 1831); by August 1832 it is officially listed as 'Reynoldsburgh' rather than French's preferred 'French Town,' and a post office under that name opens in 1833 with Reynolds as postmaster.
  4. — Reynoldsburg is incorporated as a village on March 16.
  5. — Reynoldsburg reaches its greatest prosperity as a National Road stopover, by the account of the 1880 Franklin County history.
  6. — The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is built through the area on a route that bypasses the village, and the wagon and stagecoach trade that had built Reynoldsburg's National Road businesses drains away.
  7. — Cabinetmaker Nathan Orcutt builds Alexander W. Livingston's house at what is now 1792 Graham Road, its foundation cut from William Forrester's local freestone quarry.
  8. — The Reynoldsburg Union Academy opens under Dr. Darlington J. Snyder, drawing tuition-paying students from other counties and states and becoming Franklin County's major public high school of the era.
  9. — Alexander W. Livingston introduces the Paragon, selected and crossed from many varieties on his Buckeye Farm — the first tomato variety bred and stabilized for commercial sale.
  10. — The village's name is officially respelled from 'Reynoldsburgh' to 'Reynoldsburg.'
  11. — Alexander W. Livingston dies November 11 and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus.
  12. — Columbus dedicates Hoover Dam on Big Walnut Creek; the reservoir it impounds now feeds the Hap Cremean treatment plant that supplies most of Reynoldsburg's tap water.
  13. — Reynoldsburg is granted city status.
  14. — The Franklin County Historical Society designates Reynoldsburg 'The Home of the Tomato,' the city and society erect a marker, and the first Tomato Festival (originally called the Tomato Fair) is held.
  15. — The Alexander W. Livingston House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, reference number 94000593, on June 17.

Stories

The Store That Named a Village

In 1831 James C. Reynolds, a young merchant boarding with landowner John French, opened a sutler's store to sell work clothes, whiskey, molasses and calico to the gangs building the Cumberland Road — the National Road — through Truro Township. The store became the neighborhood's gathering place, and Reynolds persuaded French to have his farmland surveyed and platted into a village, registered that November. French, by local tradition, wanted to name the new village after his own family, 'French Town,' but when the plat was officially recorded the following year it was listed instead as 'Reynoldsburgh' — quite possibly, the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society suggests, because mail for the settlement was simply being delivered to Reynolds's store. Reynolds went on to serve as the village's first postmaster and justice of the peace, was elected a Brigadier General in the Ohio Militia and a state representative, and died of complications from malaria in 1854.

The Ark and the Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad ran through Reynoldsburg from about 1840 until the spring of 1865, carried along one of its regular routes: out old Friend (now Main) Street from Columbus, through Reynoldsburg, and twenty miles northeast to Granville. James C. Reynolds's own general store, a log building put up in 1839-1840 on what is now East Main Street, hid a cellar chamber about seven by fifteen feet with airholes on three sides and a trapdoor; the best-remembered station was the David Graham house, where later residents told of digging noises in the cellar and voices in the hallway at night. Alexander W. Livingston — the same man who would later stabilize the tomato — kept a long, bench-lined covered wagon called the Ark, and his employee Ben Patterson (1836-1914) drove it loaded with freedom seekers north to Granville or the many miles to Mt. Vernon, a trip that took a full night. Carpenter Harrison 'Hack' Long hid people in his own house, its living-room floor raised about five feet above ground on a brick wall reached by an outside stair. No single record dates when this network began in Reynoldsburg, but those who took the risk — merchants, carpenters, farmers, several of them elders of the town's Presbyterian and Seceder churches — left enough traces, remembered by name, that the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society could still reconstruct the routes and stations a century and a half later.

From Wild Tomato to Paragon

Alexander W. Livingston was born in 1821 (his own 1965 memorial marker gives October 14, 1821; the city's history page gives 1822) and grew up around his family's farm near Reynoldsburg, at a time when tomatoes were still small, ribbed, hard-cored and often nearly hollow — barely resembling the fruit sold today. Working seed by seed on his own ground, Livingston selected and crossed varieties for uniform roundness, size and flavor for two decades before he had anything worth selling. In 1870 he introduced the Paragon, grown in a field of many varieties on his 'Buckeye Farm' at what is now 1792 Graham Road — the first tomato variety bred and stabilized specifically for commercial sale. He followed it with more than a dozen others, including the purple Acme and yellow Golden Queen, built the seed company that became A. W. Livingston's Sons, and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's own later reckoning, he and his sons were responsible for roughly half of the major American tomato varieties grown by the early 20th century. Livingston died November 11, 1898, and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Columbus; in 1965 the Franklin County Historical Society made the connection official, naming Reynoldsburg 'The Home of the Tomato' and launching the Tomato Festival the city still holds every August.

Boom on the National Road, Bypassed by the Rails

For about fifteen years Reynoldsburg rode the National Road's traffic to real prosperity: within six years of the construction crews passing through, the young village had four taverns, two churches, a school, a post office and two more platted additions, and the 1880 county history recalled the town's best years as falling around 1846 or 1847. Then the railroads came. When the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built through the area in 1853, it ran on its own route rather than through the village, and the wagon and stagecoach trade that had built Reynoldsburg's taverns, stores and blacksmith shops drained away with it. The county historian, writing in 1880, described a village that had settled into quieter farming and small industry — tile-making, a stone quarry, slaughterhouses — rather than recovering its National Road bustle. It would be Columbus's growth into a metropolis, not a railroad, that eventually brought Reynoldsburg's suburban-era growth in the 20th century, marked by the city status it was granted in 1960.

The Meetinghouse That Fell on Its Builders

Raising a meetinghouse by hand was dangerous work, and Reynoldsburg's Presbyterian congregation learned that firsthand when a supporting beam gave way during construction of their church building. Joseph McCray took the worst of it, a blow to the head that left him with lasting memory trouble; a Mr. Sincebaugh and Mark Evans were also hurt, and Blythe Dixon carried visible scars from the accident for years afterward — still noticeable, the 1885 local history noted, as late as 1885. The congregation rebuilt anyway: their meetinghouse had already burned once, around 1860, one of at least ten Reynoldsburg buildings lost to fire over the young village's history, including a two-story dwelling valued at $1,500 and an earlier meetinghouse worth $2,000. Fire and falling beams aside, the church endured, one of half a dozen congregations — Baptist, Methodist, Universalist, Campbellite and the United Presbyterian (Seceder) church among them — that anchored the small village through the 19th century.

Photographs

Alexander W. Livingston (1821-1898), the Reynoldsburg horticulturist who stabilized the tomato for commercial growing.
Alexander W. Livingston (1821-1898), the Reynoldsburg horticulturist who stabilized the tomato for commercial growing. (before 1898 (published 1954))
Photo: Franklin County Historical Society, published in Early Agriculture in Franklin County (1954); Columbus Metropolitan Library, no known copyright restrictions · Wikimedia Commons
A postcard view of Silent Home Cemetery in Reynoldsburg.
A postcard view of Silent Home Cemetery in Reynoldsburg. (1910)
Photo: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio Postcard Collection, no known copyright restrictions · Wikimedia Commons
The Alexander W. Livingston House at 1792 Graham Road, built 1864-1865 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The Alexander W. Livingston House at 1792 Graham Road, built 1864-1865 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. (2015)
Photo: Nyttend, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The Municipal Building, City of Reynoldsburg, photographed newly built with the surrounding lawn not yet grown in.
The Municipal Building, City of Reynoldsburg, photographed newly built with the surrounding lawn not yet grown in. (20th century (undated))
Photo: David E. Lucas, David Lucas Collection, Columbus Metropolitan Library, no known copyright restrictions · Wikimedia Commons

Local history sources: rths.info · reynoldsburg.gov · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · genealogytrails.com · ohiogenealogyexpress.com · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · wosu.org · hmdb.org · hmdb.org · hmdb.org · remarkableohio.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · npgallery.nps.gov · commons.wikimedia.org · digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org · digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org · digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

Historic places

1 place in Reynoldsburg on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

  1. Livingston, Alexander W., HouseBuilding · Reynoldsburg · listed 1994
    Address
    1792 Graham Rd.
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County · ZIP 43068
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1994
    NRIS reference number
    94000593
    Coordinates
    39.94788, -82.79612

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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.

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Water

Big Walnut Creek at the plant's low-head dam and screen house on Morse Rd, below Hoover Dam The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Reynoldsburg's boundary: 1 health center, 1 dialysis center, 1 nursing home, 4 fire and EMS stations, 10 public schools, 1 private school, 1 library, 3 museums, 1 police station, 5 public charging sites, 2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 9 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Community health centers (1)

  1. Reynoldsburg ClinicHealth center · Reynoldsburg
    Run by
    a federally qualified health center
    Setting
    Clinic
    City
    Reynoldsburg
    Coordinates
    39.94475, -82.79704

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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 (1)

  1. Davita Taylor Park DialysisDialysis · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    2363 Taylor Park Dr, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Dialysis stations
    13
    Medicare star rating
    1 of 5 stars
    Services
    in-center hemodialysis
    Ownership
    for profit
    Chain
    DaVita
    Medicare certified since
    2024-01-03
    Phone
    (380) 248-2970
    Medicare ID
    722506

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Source: CMS dialysis facility list, September 2026, geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (an address it could not place sits at its ZIP center).

Nursing homes (1)

  1. Robert A Barnes Center5 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    2225 Taylor Park Drive, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Certified beds
    25
    Residents on an average day
    22
    Medicare overall rating
    5 of 5 stars
    Health inspections
    4 of 5 stars
    Staffing
    5 of 5 stars
    Quality measures
    5 of 5 stars
    Penalties since 2023
    none
    Ownership
    Non profit - Church related
    Continuing care retirement community
    Yes
    Takes
    Medicare and Medicaid
    Phone
    (614) 759-0023
    Medicare ID
    366411

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Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files; Medicare star ratings run 1 to 5.

Fire and EMS stations (4)

  1. Truro Township Fire Department Station 161 HeadquartersReynoldsburg
    Address
    6900 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Coordinates
    39.95554, -82.81311

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  2. Truro Township Fire Department Station 162Reynoldsburg
    Address
    6305 East Livingston Avenue, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Coordinates
    39.94142, -82.82653

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  3. Violet Township Fire Department Station 593Reynoldsburg
    Address
    2365 Taylor Park Drive, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Coordinates
    39.93595, -82.79248

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  4. West Licking Joint Fire District Station 404Reynoldsburg
    Address
    8070 Taylor Road, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Coordinates
    39.97539, -82.76974

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Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.

Public schools (10)

  1. Baldwin Road Junior High School2.5 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    2300 Baldwin Pl, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    788
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    42.77
    Report card, 2025-26
    2.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    55.2%
    Ohio building IRN
    066738
    NCES school ID
    390470002740

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  2. French Run Elementary School2 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    1200 Epworth Ave, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    377
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    19.84
    Report card, 2025-26
    2 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    57.1%
    Ohio building IRN
    012518
    NCES school ID
    390470002736

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  3. Herbert Mills Elementary School2.5 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    6826 Retton Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    410
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    22.5
    Report card, 2025-26
    2.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    58.4%
    Ohio building IRN
    024893
    NCES school ID
    390470002738

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  4. Reynoldsburg High School3.5 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    6699 E Livingston Ave, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    2,268
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    120.27
    Report card, 2025-26
    3.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    70.7%
    Four-year graduation rate
    94.9%
    Ohio building IRN
    020066
    NCES school ID
    390470010851

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  5. Rose Hill Elementary School3.5 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    760 Rosehill Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    384
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    23.33
    Report card, 2025-26
    3.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    70.7%
    Ohio building IRN
    032631
    NCES school ID
    390470002742

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  6. Slate Ridge Elementary School2.5 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    10466 Taylor Rd SW, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    607
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    29
    Report card, 2025-26
    2.5 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    63.8%
    Ohio building IRN
    000878
    NCES school ID
    390470005131

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  7. Summit Road ElementaryReynoldsburg
    Address
    8591 Summit Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    395
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    25
    NCES school ID
    390470005654

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  8. Taylor Road Elementary School3 of 5 stars · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    8200 Taylor Rd SW, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    School district
    Reynoldsburg City School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    440
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    30.33
    Report card, 2025-26
    3 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    71.5%
    Ohio building IRN
    115881
    NCES school ID
    390470000467

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  9. Waggoner Road ElementaryReynoldsburg
    Address
    340 Waggoner Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    712
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    36
    NCES school ID
    390470010886

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  10. Waggoner Road Junior HighReynoldsburg
    Address
    360 Waggoner Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    884
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    50.68
    NCES school ID
    390470005388

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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)

  1. Messiah Christian SchoolPrivate, religious, denomination-affiliated · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    1200 Waggoner Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Kind
    religious, denomination-affiliated
    Students, 2023-24
    12
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    1
    Students per teacher
    12
    Phone
    (614) 864-3506
    NCES private school ID
    A2370957

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Source: NCES Private School Survey 2023-24.

Public libraries (1)

  1. Reynoldsburg Branch LibraryBranch · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    1402 Brice Rd., Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    What it is
    Branch
    Library system
    Columbus Metropolitan Library
    Open
    3,640 hours a year, 52 weeks
    Building
    39,200 sq ft
    System's visits, FY2024
    5,472,220
    System's loans, FY2024
    13,794,599
    People the system serves
    971,930
    Phone
    (614) 645-2275

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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 (3)

  1. Livingston House SocietyHistorical society · Reynoldsburg
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Reynoldsburg
    Coordinates
    39.95529, -82.80522

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    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

  2. Reynoldsburg Community AssociationHistorical society · Reynoldsburg
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Reynoldsburg
    Coordinates
    39.94608, -82.78291

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    The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.

  3. Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical SocietyHistorical society · Reynoldsburg
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    Reynoldsburg
    Coordinates
    39.95370, -82.80023

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    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)

  1. Reynoldsburg Police DepartmentReynoldsburg
    Address
    7240 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Coordinates
    39.95629, -82.80572

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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 (5)

  1. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Columbus East - Tesla Destination4 Level 2 · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    2806 Taylor Rd Ext, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Ports
    4 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772, Tesla (NACS)
    Network
    Tesla Destination
    Phone
    877-798-3752

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  2. REYNOLDSBURG FAST CHARGER 1 DC fast1 DC fast · 2 Level 2 · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    7312 E Main St, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Ports
    1 DC fast · 2 Level 2
    Plugs
    CCS, CHAdeMO, J1772
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  3. REYNOLDSBURG FC YMCA DC fast1 DC fast · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    1553 Davidson Dr, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Ports
    1 DC fast
    Plugs
    CCS, CHAdeMO
    Network
    ChargePoint Network
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    888-758-4389

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  4. Sheetz Store #822 - Reynoldsburg2 Level 2 · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    8555 E Main St, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    Ports
    2 Level 2
    Plugs
    J1772
    Network
    EV Connect
    Hours
    24 hours daily
    Phone
    866-816-7584

    Station Locator (NREL) ↗ Alternative Fuels Data Center (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  5. The Residences at Eastwood - Leasing Center2 Level 2 · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    9060 Heirloom Lane, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    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.

Facilities reporting toxic releases (2)

  1. Dynalab IncToxics Release Inventory · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    555 Lancaster Ave., Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    County
    Franklin County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    43068DYNLB555LA
    EPA registry ID
    110012706036

    EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  2. Shelly Materials Plant No 94 (0145000399)Toxics Release Inventory · Reynoldsburg
    Address
    7661 Taylor Road, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
    County
    Licking County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory
    EPA program ID
    4306WSHLLY7661T
    EPA registry ID
    110054291887

    EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Toxics Release Inventory reporters. Reporting a release is required of large users of listed chemicals; it is not by itself a violation.

Spills reported since 2021 (9)

  1. Oil Transformer Non Pcb2024-11-11 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2024-11-11
    What spilled
    Oil Transformer Non Pcb
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2411EPA0001870

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

  2. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2024-03-28 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2024-03-28
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    30 gallons
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Licking County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2403EPA0000485

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

  3. Oil Transformer Non Pcb2024-02-03 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2024-02-03
    What spilled
    Oil Transformer Non Pcb
    Largest amount reported
    70 gallons
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2402EPA0000187

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

  4. Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle2023-11-27 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2023-11-27
    What spilled
    Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
    Largest amount reported
    1 gallons
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2311EPA0001989

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

  5. Oil Transformer Non Pcb2023-01-21 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2023-01-21
    What spilled
    Oil Transformer Non Pcb
    Largest amount reported
    79 gallons
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2301EPA0000108

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

  6. Material Undetermined / Other Reached water2022-08-30 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2022-08-30
    What spilled
    Material Undetermined / Other
    Reached a waterway
    99 - Unnamed
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2208EPA0001340

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

  7. Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle2022-04-25 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2022-04-25
    What spilled
    Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2204EPA0000577

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

  8. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2021-05-17 · Pataskala
    Reported
    2021-05-17
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    30 gallons
    Where
    Pataskala, Licking County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2105EPA0000692

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

  9. Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)2021-01-25 · Reynoldsburg
    Reported
    2021-01-25
    What spilled
    Oil Hydraulic Fluid(S)
    Largest amount reported
    30 gallons
    Where
    Reynoldsburg, Franklin County
    Ohio EPA district office
    CDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2101EPA0000104

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

ZIPShareWaterRadon Home valueSchoolsFlood
43068 Reynoldsburg 68% Big Walnut Creek at the plant's low-head dam and screen house on Morse Rd, below Hoover Dam 5.8 pCi/L average radon Median year built 1987 Reynoldsburg City · 3.5 stars overall 4.9% of residents in the 1% floodplain
43004 Columbus and Blacklick 1% Big Walnut Creek at the plant's low-head dam and screen house on Morse Rd, below Hoover Dam 6.0 pCi/L average radon Median year built 2003 Licking Heights Local · 4.5 stars overall 1.2% of residents in the 1% floodplain

Local government

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

Who holds office

OfficeNamePartyTerm endsContact
MAYOR ()Joe BegenyD
AUDITOR ()Shanette StricklandD
CITY ATTORNEY ()Chris Shook (Licking)D
PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL ()Bhuwan Pyakurel (Licking)D
COUNCIL AT LARGE ()Stacie BakerD
COUNCIL AT LARGE ()Mildred JohnsonD
COUNCIL AT LARGE ()Angela AbramD
COUNCIL WARD ONE (Appt 2/2025 to UTE 2027)Julie TownsD
COUNCIL WARD TWO ()Louis Salvati (Licking)D
COUNCIL WARD THREE ()Teneah Chambers (Licking)D
COUNCIL WARD FOUR ()Erin HillD

Roster as of 8/17/2026: county board of elections.

Ballot issues

DateIssueForAgainstResult
2022-11-08 Issue: Reynoldsburg City Charter Amendment - Article IV 16412Passed (93.18% for)
2022-11-08 Issue: Reynoldsburg City Charter Amendment - Section 10.01 12532Passed (79.62% for)
2022-11-08 Issue: Reynoldsburg City Charter Amendment - Section 3.04 12938Passed (77.25% for)
2022-11-08 Issue: Reynoldsburg City Charter Amendment - Section 3.07 14430Passed (82.76% for)
2022-11-08 Issue: Reynoldsburg City Charter Amendment - Section 6.06 12844Passed (74.42% for)
2022-11-08 Issue: Reynoldsburg City Charter Amendment - Sections 7.01, 4.11, 7.02 12534Passed (78.62% for)
2022-11-08 #37: #37 City of Reynoldsburg Proposed Charter Amendment - Legislative Procedure 20,5982,716Passed (88.35% for)
2022-11-08 #39: #39 City of Reynoldsburg Proposed Charter Amendment - Council Meetings 16,4606,582Passed (71.43% for)
2022-11-08 #40: #40 City of Reynoldsburg Proposed Charter Amendment - Deptartment of Public Safety 15,1747,750Passed (66.19% for)
2022-11-08 #41: #41 City of Reynoldsburg Proposed Charter Amendment - Planning and Zoning Board 16,8565,730Passed (74.63% for)
2022-11-08 #42: #42 City of Reynoldsburg Proposed Charter Amendment - Initiative and Referendum 15,0826,918Passed (68.55% for)

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2025-11-04 Member of Council at Large (number of seats not on file, so winners are not marked) Angela Abram (Dem) 8,448, 24.35%; Barth R. Cotner (Rep) 5,124, 14.77%; Kamal Subedi (Rep) 4,384, 12.64%; Mildred M. Johnson (Dem) 8,090, 23.32%; Stacie A. Baker (Dem) 8,646, 24.92%
2025-11-04 Auditor Shanette E. Strickland (Dem) 8,686, 62.35%; Stephen Cicak (Rep) 5,246, 37.65%
2023-11-07 RE For Member of Council (4th Ward) Erin Hill (Dem) 2,880, 100.0%
2023-11-07 RE For Member of Council (3rd Ward) Bhuwan Pyakurel (Dem) 4,622, 100.0%
2023-11-07 RE For Member of Council (2nd Ward) Louis M. Salvati (Dem) 4,184, 100.0%
2023-11-07 RE For Member of Council (1st Ward) Shanette E. Strickland (Dem) 3,882, 100.0%
2023-11-07 RE For City Attorney Chris Shook (Dem) 16,130, 100.0%
2023-11-07 President of Council Meredith Lawson-Rowe (DEM) 155, 100.0%
2023-11-07 Member of Council (Ward 4) Erin Hill (DEM) 150, 100.0%
2023-11-07 Mayor Joe Begeny (DEM) 156, 100.0%
2023-11-07 Mayor Joe Begeny (Dem) 17,334, 100.0%
2023-11-07 City Attorney Chris Shook (DEM) 152, 100.0%
2021-11-02 Member of Council at Large (unofficial count) Stacie A. Baker 977, 22.67%; Kristin Jocele Bryant 955, 22.16%; Barth R. Cotner 743, 17.24%; Franklin W. Davis 949, 22.02%; Brett Luzader 685, 15.9%
2021-11-02 Auditor (unofficial count) Stephen Cicak 762, 45.52%; Mildred M. Johnson 912, 54.48%

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

Auditor of State record

The county

Franklin County: 45 ZIP codes, 42 cities, villages and townships, 1,356,733 people.

Nearby places

Columbus Etna Township, Licking County Pataskala Jefferson Township, Franklin County Gahanna

Rain and snow

How much has actually fallen on Reynoldsburg, day by day, from 1893 to now. Daily totals, not averages.

rain, last 30 days
1.20 in
2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29
rain so far in 2026
50.3 in
12.9 in above normal for the date
snow so far in 2026
18.5 in
a normal year brings 25.1 in
a normal year
43.8 in
average of 30 years, 1991-2020
The last twelve months
MonthRain (in)Snow (in)Days counted
October 2026 1.20 — 29
September 2026 7.27 — 30
August 2026 11.41 — 31
July 2026 3.62 — 31
June 2026 4.23 — 30
May 2026 8.12 — 31
April 2026 3.56 — 30
March 2026 6.57 3.1 31
February 2026 2.48 3.8 28
January 2026 1.82 11.7 31
December 2025 2.60 11.1 31
November 2025 2.62 1.4 30
On the record, 1893–2026
Wettest year2018 — 61.3 in
Driest year1934 — 23.1 in
Snowiest year1910 — 58.9 in
Wettest day on record13 July 1992 — 4.57 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day8 March 2008 — 12.26 in
Deepest snow on the ground9 February 1896 — 20.98 in

Mostly estimated. Only 3% of these days come from a gauge standing inside Reynoldsburg - the rest are worked out from the nearest gauges around it, so read them as close estimates rather than readings.

48,474 days of records, 1893-01-01 to 2026-10-29. Source: NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, 3,240 gauges in and around Ohio. A day is "gauged" when a gauge standing inside the boundary reported it, and the value is the mean of those gauges. Otherwise it is interpolated by inverse distance from every gauge reporting within 50 miles. Nothing is carried forward, back-filled or smoothed. Against NOAA nClimDiv county monthly precipitation over 136,848 complete county-months (checked 2026-10-31): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-10-31 from the Cracked Buckeye precipitation archive. Snow is the softer number — snowfall is measured by hand with a ruler, no agency publishes a gridded county snowfall series, and blowing snow defeats every observer.

Environmental permits and filings

What Ohio EPA has on file for Reynoldsburg: 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
92
those placed on the map inside Reynoldsburg
What kind of permits
ProgramFacilities and sites
Wastewater and stormwater discharge44
Sewer and water-line construction11
Wetland and stream fill9
Voluntary cleanup8
Air pollution6
Hazardous waste5
Contaminated-site cleanup3
Public drinking water2
Site assessment2
Medical waste1
State water loans1
The latest filings
DateFacility or siteWhat
PFEIFER - WOODYARD FUNERAL HOME Air pollution report
THE POINTE AT BLACKLICK REYNOLDSBURG Voluntary cleanup inspection
REYNOLDSBURG CITY PWS Public drinking water plan
DELETE-REYNOLDSBURG CITY PWS Public drinking water plan
CMHA - THE HEIGHTS ON MAIN Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
REYNOLDSBURG CITY PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
WILSON RIDGE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
THE POINTE AT BLACKLICK, REYNOLDSBURG Voluntary cleanup inspection
SUMMIT ROAD INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Wetland and stream fill permit
SUMMIT ROAD INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Wetland and stream fill permit
THE POINTE AT BLACKLICK, REYNOLDSBURG Voluntary cleanup inspection
SUMMIT ROAD INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Wetland and stream fill permit
REYNOLDSBURG INDUSTRIAL PARK – SUMMIT ROAD PHASE II Sewer and water-line construction permit
REYNOLDSBURG INDUSTRIAL PARK – SUMMIT ROAD PHASE II Sewer and water-line construction permit
REYNOLDSBURG INDUSTRIAL PARK – SUMMIT ROAD PHASE I Sewer and water-line construction permit
C5 - EASTPOINT Sewer and water-line construction permit
WILSON RIDGE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
OHIO AIR NATIONAL GUARD 121 ARW Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
WILSON RIDGE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
C5 - EASTPOINT Sewer and water-line construction permit
REYNOLDSBURG CITY PWS Public drinking water plan
PFEIFER - WOODYARD FUNERAL HOME Air pollution report
SUMMIT ROAD INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Wetland and stream fill permit
REYNOLDSBURG INDUSTRIAL PARK – SUMMIT ROAD PHASE II Sewer and water-line construction permit
SUMMIT ROAD INDUSTRIAL PARK Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit

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 Reynoldsburg, Ohio in?

Reynoldsburg is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, with 41,141 residents.

When was Reynoldsburg, Ohio founded?

Reynoldsburg was settled 1802; laid out 1831; incorporated 1839. Founders on record: John French (platted the village on his farmland); James C. Reynolds, the storekeeper it was named for, persuaded him to do it. Source

How did Reynoldsburg, Ohio get its name?

Reynoldsburg is named for James C. Source

What ZIP code is Reynoldsburg, Ohio?

Most of Reynoldsburg is in ZIP code 43068.

Where does Reynoldsburg, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Reynoldsburg (Reynoldsburg City): Big Walnut Creek at the plant's low-head dam and screen house on Morse Rd, below Hoover Dam.

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