Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County
Township · Columbiana County · 7,804 residents
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How Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County began
St. Clair Township, in the southeastern corner of Columbiana County along the Ohio River, was among the first townships organized in the county in 1803 and is thought to be named for Arthur St. Clair, first governor of the Northwest Territory. It holds the site of the county's earliest credited permanent settlement -- hunter John Quinn's cabin of about 1792-93, near what became the village of Calcutta -- and it was in a one-room Calcutta schoolhouse that a 14-year-old William Holmes McGuffey began the teaching career that led to the McGuffey Readers, one of the most widely used textbook series in American history. The township wraps around, but does not include, the independent city of East Liverpool, and today combines the unincorporated communities of Calcutta, Glenmoor and Fredericktown with farmland and low-density development along State Route 170.
Settled 1792 or 1793 (John Quinn), platted 1810 (Calcutta, as West Union), incorporated 1803 (township organized), by John Quinn (first settler); township organization by Columbiana County commissioners.
Where the name comes from
St. Clair Township is thought to be named for Arthur St. Clair, first governor of the Northwest Territory, which included the land that became Ohio. Within the township, the community of Calcutta went through several earlier names -- West Union at its 1810 platting, then Foulkstown for early resident William Foulks, then Nineveh -- before taking its present name from the Indian city then commonly anglicized as Calcutta; a post office under that name operated from 1838 to 1913.
Before the town
No source we reviewed names a specific Native American village, camp, mound or burial site within St. Clair Township's present boundaries. The township holds the credited site of the county's earliest recorded permanent Euro-American settlement, John Quinn's cabin near present Calcutta of about 1792-93, built after the region's Native land claims had already been ceded under the 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh and confirmed by the 1795 Treaty of Greenville. No township-specific Native site, encounter or place name was found in the sources checked.
Timeline
- — Hunter John Quinn settles near the future site of Calcutta, the earliest credited permanent Euro-American settlement in Columbiana County.
- — St. Clair Township is organized, among the first townships formed in the newly created Columbiana County.
- — The village later known as Calcutta is platted as West Union.
- — Fourteen-year-old William Holmes McGuffey begins teaching a one-room subscription school in Calcutta, his first teaching post.
- — Future U.S. Representative Jonathan H. Wallace is born in St. Clair Township.
- — A post office operates in Calcutta under that name.
- 20th century — Calcutta grows as businesses and residents relocate from nearby East Liverpool to shopping centers along State Route 170.
Stories
The schoolteacher who taught America to read
In 1814, a 14-year-old named William Holmes McGuffey took charge of a one-room subscription school in Calcutta, in St. Clair Township, teaching students ranging from six-year-olds to young adults of twenty-one, eleven hours a day, six days a week, for whatever tuition their families could pay. Textbooks were scarce on the Ohio frontier; many of his students brought a family Bible to class because there was little else to read from. McGuffey went on to a long career as a college professor and president, but it was his later work compiling graded elementary readers -- the McGuffey Readers, first published in 1836 -- that made him one of the most influential figures in American education. More than 120 million copies sold by 1960, a circulation rivaled at the time only by the Bible and Webster's Dictionary, and the readers shaped the reading, spelling and moral instruction of generations of American schoolchildren, all traceable back to a teenage teacher's first classroom in a Columbiana County township.
A township-born congressman unseats a future president
Jonathan H. Wallace, born in St. Clair Township in 1824, built a conventional county-lawyer's career -- Washington College graduate, twice Columbiana County prosecuting attorney, married into the locally prominent McCook family -- before an 1884 congressional race made him briefly notable well beyond the county. Running in Ohio's 18th district against William McKinley, the future 25th president of the United States, Wallace lost the initial count but contested the result; the dispute rose all the way to the U.S. House of Representatives, which in May 1884 seated Wallace instead of McKinley. Wallace served less than a year before McKinley reclaimed the seat in the next election, but the episode remains a footnote in McKinley's long rise to the presidency, and a reminder that Gilded Age congressional elections could be decided in Washington as easily as at the ballot box.
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
Water
Ohio River The water here
- East Liverpool City100% of residentsOhio River
- Aqua Ohio - Tomahawk Utilities0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County's boundary: 2 health centers, 1 dialysis center, 1 nursing home, 2 fire and EMS stations, 1 college, 3 public schools, 2 poor-rated bridges, 1 museum, 1 police station and 3 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Community health centers (2)
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CAA East Liverpool Campus Building #2Health center · East Liverpool
- Run by
- a federally qualified health center
- Setting
- Clinic
- City
- East Liverpool
- Coordinates
- 40.66181, -80.57417
Find a Health Center (HRSA) ↗ HRSA data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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CAA Health, Behavioral Health, and Dental Center at East LiverpoolHealth center · East Liverpool
- Run by
- a federally qualified health center
- Setting
- Clinic
- City
- East Liverpool
- Coordinates
- 40.66214, -80.57401
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 (1)
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Independent Dialysis Group Northeast Ohio LlcDialysis · Calcutta
- Address
- 48444 Bell School Road, Calcutta, OH 43920
- Dialysis stations
- 1
- Medicare star rating
- not rated
- Services
- home hemodialysis training
- Ownership
- for profit
- Chain
- independent
- Medicare certified since
- 2021-06-22
- Phone
- (330) 831-2404
- Medicare ID
- 362899
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS dialysis facility list (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS dialysis facility list, September 2026, geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (an address it could not place sits at its ZIP center).
Nursing homes (1)
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Calcutta Health Care Center1 of 5 stars · Calcutta
- Address
- 48444 Bell School Road, Calcutta, OH 43920
- Certified beds
- 97
- Residents on an average day
- 91
- Medicare overall rating
- 1 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 1 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 4 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 4 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- 1 fine totalling $25,495 (latest 2026-04-01)
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (330) 385-7100
- Medicare ID
- 365987
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 (2)
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Calcutta Volunteer Fire DepartmentEast Liverpool
- Address
- 15445 Pugh Road, East Liverpool, OH 43920
- Coordinates
- 40.67737, -80.57931
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Glenmoor Volunteer Fire DepartmentGlenmoor
- Address
- 16320 Annesley Road, Glenmoor, OH 43920
- Coordinates
- 40.66425, -80.61145
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.
Colleges (1)
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East Ohio CollegeFor-profit two-year college · East Liverpool
- What it is
- For-profit two-year college
- City
- East Liverpool
- Students, 2023-24 (12-month count)
- 220
- Tuition and fees, in state
- $14,370
- Graduation rate
- 67% within three years (a class of 33)
- IPEDS unit ID
- 204884
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 (3)
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Beaver Local Elementary School3.5 of 5 stars · East Liverpool
- Address
- 46088 Bell School Rd, East Liverpool, OH 43920
- School district
- Beaver Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 626
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 43
- Report card, 2025-26
- 3.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 79.3%
- Ohio building IRN
- 004549
- NCES school ID
- 390464202548
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Beaver Local High School4 of 5 stars · East Liverpool
- Address
- 46088 Bell School Rd, East Liverpool, OH 43920
- School district
- Beaver Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 518
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 29
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 81%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 98.7%
- Ohio building IRN
- 001958
- NCES school ID
- 390464202547
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Beaver Local Middle School4.5 of 5 stars · East Liverpool
- Address
- 46088 Bell School Rd, East Liverpool, OH 43920
- School district
- Beaver Local School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 548
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 22
- Report card, 2025-26
- 4.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 81.9%
- Ohio building IRN
- 001933
- NCES school ID
- 390464202546
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.
Bridges rated poor (2)
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US 30 & SR 7 over Hill Ave Twp Rd 1082Poor · built 1964
- Condition
- Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale
- What it is
- Bridge
- Built
- 1964
- Length
- 41 ft
- Owner
- State
- Vehicles a day
- 20,444
- Coordinates
- 40.65565, -80.58799
National Bridge Inventory (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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US 30 over Carpenters RunPoor · built 1963
- Condition
- Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale
- What it is
- Culvert
- Built
- 1963
- Length
- 6 ft
- Owner
- State
- Vehicles a day
- 13,000
- Coordinates
- 40.66245, -80.59018
National Bridge Inventory (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025. "Poor" means one major part rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale; it calls for repair, not closing, unless the state posts or closes the bridge.
Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)
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Beaver Creek State ParkHistorical society · East Liverpool
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- East Liverpool
- Coordinates
- 40.72256, -80.61411
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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Saint Clair Township Police DepartmentEast Liverpool
- Address
- 15442 Pugh Road Suite 1, East Liverpool, OH 43920
- Coordinates
- 40.67747, -80.57851
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.
Spills reported since 2021 (3)
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Solid Waste Nos (Not Specified)2021-06-08 · St Clair Twp
- Reported
- 2021-06-08
- What spilled
- Solid Waste Nos (Not Specified)
- Where
- St Clair Twp, Columbiana County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2106EPA0000812
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2021-03-08 · St Clair Twp
- Reported
- 2021-03-08
- What spilled
- Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
- Where
- St Clair Twp, Columbiana County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2103EPA0000300
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Material Unknown2026-05-19 · Saint Clair Twp
- Reported
- 2026-05-19
- What spilled
- Material Unknown
- Where
- Saint Clair Twp, Columbiana County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2605EPA0000842
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 Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
| ZIP | Share | Water | Radon | Home value | Schools | Flood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43920 East Liverpool | 36% | Ohio River | 9.2 pCi/L average radon | Appraisal records without year built | East Liverpool City · 2.5 stars overall | 0.4% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
| 44441 Middleton Township and Negley | 3% | Mostly private wells | 10.7 pCi/L average radon | Appraisal records without year built | Beaver Local · 4.5 stars overall | 9.6% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Money issues on the ballot since 2021: 1 of 2 passed.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-08 | Issue: St. Clair Township Tax Levy Fire | 2,094 | 908 | Passed (69.75% for) |
| 2021-11-02 | Issue: St. Clair Twp Tax Levy Roads | 751 | 777 | Failed (49.15% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-07 | Township Trustee | David J. McCoy 1,128, 43.94%; Jordan G. Williams 1,439, 56.06% |
| 2023-11-07 | Township Fiscal Officer | Deborah Dawson 2,186, 100.0% |
| 2021-11-02 | Township Trustee | Doug Blaner 685, 26.21%; James Sabatini II 1,140, 43.61%; Robert M. Swickard 789, 30.18% |
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 Audit, 2022 to 2023, released 2024-09-17
The county
Columbiana County: 20 ZIP codes, 33 cities, villages and townships, 106,075 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Saint Clair Township, Ohio in?
Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County is a township in Columbiana County, Ohio, with 7,804 residents.
When was Saint Clair Township, Ohio founded?
Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County was settled 1792 or 1793 (John Quinn); laid out 1810 (Calcutta, as West Union); incorporated 1803 (township organized). Founders on record: John Quinn (first settler); township organization by Columbiana County commissioners. Source
How did Saint Clair Township, Ohio get its name?
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What ZIP code is Saint Clair Township, Ohio?
Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County is served by ZIP codes 43920 and 44441; 43920 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Saint Clair Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Saint Clair Township, Columbiana County (East Liverpool City): Ohio River.
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