Local events in Salem Township, Monroe County
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How Salem Township, Monroe County began
Salem Township, organized July 19, 1815 -- one of Monroe County's first four townships -- grew up along Sunfish Creek, the largest creek in the county, which drew settlers as early as 1798-1799. An 1831 account recorded by Dr. N. E. Henthorn names Sunfish Creek's Native name as 'Buckchitawa' and Opossum Creek's as 'Eagle Creek,' along with a story of a fatal 1788 ambush attempt near Sunfish Creek. Most settlers here were squatters on Congressional land, and the township's culture discouraged outsiders from 'entering out' land already claimed by a settler unable yet to buy it.
Settled 1798-1799 (James Henthorn, mouth of Sunfish Creek), incorporated 1815-07-19 (township organized).
Where the name comes from
The origin of the township name Salem is not recorded.
Before the town
The township's history preserves the Native names for its two creeks, Buckchitawa for Sunfish Creek and Eagle Creek for Opossum Creek, given in 1831 to Dr. N. E. Henthorn at a tavern in Reading by an aged Indian who had lived with the Jackson family since the War of 1812 and who said he had been wounded and spared by Jackson's father at the time Boggs was killed on Boggs Island. The old man told how, about 1788, when Marietta was settling, Indians forced a white prisoner to decoy a passing boat to the shore at Buckchitawa; a big Indian who looked out from behind a tree was killed by the steersman's bullet, the Indians cried Wetzel, Wetzel and fled, and returned next day to bury him. He also said there was lead on Opossum, Sunfish and Captina creeks but the veins were thin. The 1882 history adds that a skeleton eight feet five inches long found at Clarington was probably the big Indian, and that a stone image of a lion-like beast with a human face found about 1860 where the bank caved in; the nation of the men is not stated.
Nations recorded here: Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga).
- 1788 ambush and killing near the mouth of Sunfish Creek (other) — mouth of Sunfish Creek, Salem Township, 1788 (monroe.ohgenweb.org)
- 'Big Indian' decoy ambush and skeleton find near Buckchitawa/Clarington (other) — near Buckchitawa (Sunfish Creek), with a related skeleton reportedly found in a cellar excavation at Clarington, before 1831 (event undated; skeleton found before 1831) (archive.org)
- Skeleton and stone image found at Clarington (burial) — Clarington, mouth of Sunfish Creek, found about 1860-1870; date of origin unknown (monroe.ohgenweb.org)
Timeline
- — A Native man attempting an ambush near the mouth of Sunfish Creek was killed, per an 1831 account by Dr. N. E. Henthorn.
- — James Henthorn arrived at the mouth of Sunfish Creek, later settling near present-day Clarington.
- — William Henthorn and John Hilmore tried to capture a bear swimming in Sunfish Creek; the bear boarded their boat and they fled, and other men later shot it from a raft.
- — Cornelius Vandevanter settled below the mouth of Opossum Creek, among the earliest documented settlers in the township; the county history dates his settlement only as prior to 1802.
- — Alexander Newlen cleared ten acres on what became the Joel Yost farm; most early settlers were squatters who entered their land when they could, and entering out a squatter was thought a very mean trick.
- — Jonathan Rutter and John Vandevanter built the first mill in the township on Sunfish Creek in 1805 or 1806, with millstones of blue rock from the cliffs, and Mitchell Atkinson taught the first school in a cabin on his brother Charles's farm in 1804 or 1805.
- — Salem Township was formally organized as one of Monroe County's first four townships.
- — The Baptists built the first church in the township a mile from the mouth of Opossum Creek; Rev. Joseph Junior Smith served it for many years.
- — David Pierson settled the Henthorn farm at the mouth of Sunfish Creek and named the village of Clarington for his daughter Clarinda; the post office opened in 1824 as Sunfish.
- — Dr. N. E. Henthorn recorded, from an elderly Native man he met near Cincinnati, the story of a white decoy prisoner and the killing of a very tall Native man ('the big Indian') near Buckchitawa (Sunfish Creek), a story later related by Henthorn to John B. Noll and published by Henry Howe in 1891.
- — The Christians built a church at Clarington and the Methodists, who had preached in the township since 1802, built theirs in 1842.
- — About this date an image in hard gray stone, a lion-like animal with a human head and face, eight inches high on an eight-by-ten pedestal, was found where the river bank had caved in at Clarington; a skeleton unearthed there earlier, measured at eight feet five inches, was thought to be the big Indian.
- — Salem Township had 2,377 residents, 915 of them in Clarington; the township made 88,910 pounds of cheese in 1881.
- — The census counted 831 residents in the 26.4-square-mile township, 280 of them in Clarington.
Stories
The bear that came aboard
In 1801, William Henthorn and John Hilmore spotted a bear swimming across Sunfish Creek and set out in a boat to capture it, a common enough sport among the township's early hunters. The plan went wrong when the bear, rather than being subdued, climbed into the boat with them; the two men abandoned ship rather than fight a bear at close quarters on the water. Other men from the settlement, alerted to the chase, finished the job from a raft, shooting the animal before it could reach shore -- a small, almost comic episode that nonetheless captures how close early Salem Township settlers lived to the wild creek bottoms they were clearing.
The big Indian
In 1831, Dr. N. E. Henthorn was traveling home to Monroe County from Cincinnati when he stopped overnight at a tavern near Reading, Ohio, and was asked to sit with the innkeeper's father and an elderly Native man who had lived with the family since the War of 1812. The old man told Henthorn that Sunfish Creek's Native name was Buckchitawa and Opossum Creek's was Eagle Creek, then told a story from the settlement era: Native raiders once forced a white prisoner to stand on the riverbank near Buckchitawa and call a passing boatload of settlers ashore, promising he had escaped captivity. As the boat neared, an unusually tall man among the raiders -- 'the big Indian' -- raised his head from behind a tree to watch, and the boat's steersman shot him dead; the rest of the party fled, crying the name 'Wetzel.' Years afterward, a Clarington man digging a cellar for a neighbor's house turned up a skeleton that a local doctor, measuring the bones, judged to have belonged to a man about eight feet five inches tall -- taken locally, though never proven, to be the remains of the big Indian himself.
Local history sources: monroe.ohgenweb.org · archive.org · monroe.ohgenweb.org · en.wikipedia.org · archive.org
Water
Mostly private wells The water here
- Clarington Village80% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Ohio and Lee Twp Water Authority18% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Switzer Water Association2% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Salem Township, Monroe County's boundary: 2 poor-rated bridges, 1 museum, 43 shale and injection wells, 1 Toxics Release Inventory facility and 1 spill case. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Bridges rated poor (2)
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Salem Twp 2214 over Sunfish CreekPoor · built 1980
- Condition
- Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale
- What it is
- Bridge
- Built
- 1980
- Length
- 17 ft
- Owner
- County
- Vehicles a day
- 96
- Coordinates
- 39.76490, -80.93210
National Bridge Inventory (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Twp Rd 183 over Paine RunPoor · built 1900
- Condition
- Poor: a deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert rated 4 or below on the 0 to 9 scale
- What it is
- Bridge
- Built
- 1900
- Length
- 15 ft
- Owner
- County
- Vehicles a day
- 96
- Coordinates
- 39.77583, -80.93789
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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Ohio Valley River MuseumMuseum · Clarington
- What it is
- Museum
- City
- Clarington
- Coordinates
- 39.75827, -80.89312
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.
Shale and injection wells (43)
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Ballpark 2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111248020000
- Coordinates
- 39.79865, -80.87877
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Ballpark 4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111248030000
- Coordinates
- 39.79863, -80.87870
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Bauer North U2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246330000
- Coordinates
- 39.72877, -80.93462
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Bauer South U1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246340000
- Coordinates
- 39.72875, -80.93461
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Circosta 1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246090000
- Coordinates
- 39.77624, -80.92524
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Circosta B 1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111247760000
- Coordinates
- 39.78337, -80.92084
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Circosta B 3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111247750000
- Coordinates
- 39.78343, -80.92080
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Circosta South U1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246440000
- Coordinates
- 39.78033, -80.91357
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Circosta South U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246410000
- Coordinates
- 39.78034, -80.91360
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Dietrich C 4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245810000
- Coordinates
- 39.78595, -80.90403
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Dietrich C 6HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245820000
- Coordinates
- 39.78601, -80.90409
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Faunda S U1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111247600000
- Coordinates
- 39.74511, -80.89069
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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Faunda S U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111247610000
- Coordinates
- 39.74518, -80.89065
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Holliday A 1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245920000
- Coordinates
- 39.77605, -80.92537
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Holliday A 3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245910000
- Coordinates
- 39.77598, -80.92537
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Holliday B 7HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111245960000
- Coordinates
- 39.77618, -80.92525
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Moser A 1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246310000
- Coordinates
- 39.78569, -80.88292
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Moser A 3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246300000
- Coordinates
- 39.78574, -80.88286
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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Moser A 5HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246290000
- Coordinates
- 39.78586, -80.88283
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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Moser C 2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246650000
- Coordinates
- 39.78581, -80.88288
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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Moser C 4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246260000
- Coordinates
- 39.78557, -80.88295
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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Moser C 6HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246250000
- Coordinates
- 39.78550, -80.88294
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Moser C 8HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246820000
- Coordinates
- 39.78562, -80.88291
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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Pfalzgraf N U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246970000
- Coordinates
- 39.75124, -80.93412
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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Pfalzgraf S U1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246890000
- Coordinates
- 39.75116, -80.93417
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Pfalzgraf S U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246960000
- Coordinates
- 39.75122, -80.93413
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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Pfalzgraf U5HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111249910000
- Coordinates
- 39.72624, -80.91123
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Pirl South U2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246620000
- Coordinates
- 39.76457, -80.91608
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Pirl South U3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246630000
- Coordinates
- 39.76456, -80.91603
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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Pittman 3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246100000
- Coordinates
- 39.77615, -80.92531
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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Schindler S U1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111249850000
- Coordinates
- 39.72615, -80.91157
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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Schindler S U2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111249840000
- Coordinates
- 39.72618, -80.91149
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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Schindler S U3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111249860000
- Coordinates
- 39.72620, -80.91140
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Schindler S U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111249870000
- Coordinates
- 39.72622, -80.91132
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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Shroyer Unit 2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111244160000
- Coordinates
- 39.79856, -80.87857
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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Shroyer Unit 4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Expand Operating Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111244150100
- Coordinates
- 39.79852, -80.87843
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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Wefler N U 1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111244620100
- Coordinates
- 39.73883, -80.90832
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The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.
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Wefler N U2H St03Utica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246060300
- Coordinates
- 39.73896, -80.90839
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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Wefler N U3HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246070000
- Coordinates
- 39.73892, -80.90837
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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Wefler N U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246080000
- Coordinates
- 39.73895, -80.90829
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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Wefler S U1HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111248890000
- Coordinates
- 39.73887, -80.90843
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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Wefler S U2HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111248880000
- Coordinates
- 39.73891, -80.90844
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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Wefler South U4HUtica shale well
- What it is
- Utica shale well
- Drilled sideways
- Yes
- Operator
- Rice Drilling D Llc
- County
- Monroe County
- API well number
- 34111246360000
- Coordinates
- 39.73887, -80.90826
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.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (1)
-
American Mine Services, Inc.Toxics Release Inventory · Clarington
- Address
- 52427 Beautiful Ridge Rd, Clarington, OH 43915
- County
- Monroe County County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory
- EPA program ID
- 4391WMRCNM52427
- EPA registry ID
- 110071256710
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 (1)
-
Antifreeze Vehicle Cooling2025-01-28 · Salem Twp
- Reported
- 2025-01-28
- What spilled
- Antifreeze Vehicle Cooling; Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road); Oil Motor / Lube Oil / Vehicle
- Largest amount reported
- 100 gallons
- Where
- Salem Twp, Monroe County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2501EPA0000107
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 Salem Township, Monroe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43915 Salem Township and Clarington | 40% | Mostly private wells | 3.8 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1965 | Switzerland of Ohio Local · 3 stars overall | 5.9% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Salem Township, Monroe County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-05 | Township Fiscal Officer | Jamison Talkington 117, 63.93%; Linda Wisvari 66, 36.07% |
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, 2022 to 2023, released 2024-07-18
The county
Monroe County: 10 ZIP codes, 27 cities, villages and townships, 13,100 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Salem Township, Ohio in?
Salem Township, Monroe County is a township in Monroe County, Ohio, with 555 residents.
When was Salem Township, Ohio founded?
Salem Township, Monroe County was settled 1798-1799 (James Henthorn, mouth of Sunfish Creek); incorporated 1815-07-19 (township organized). Source
How did Salem Township, Ohio get its name?
The origin of the township name Salem is not recorded. Source
What ZIP code is Salem Township, Ohio?
Most of Salem Township, Monroe County is in ZIP code 43915.
Where does Salem Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Salem Township, Monroe County (Clarington Village): Mostly private wells.
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