Seneca Township, Noble County

Township · Guernsey County · 423 residents

Guernsey County

Local events in Seneca Township, Noble County

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  1. Fall story time

    Oct 6 to Nov 10 · Caldwell · 9.7 mi · From Caldwell Public Library

  2. Community puzzle swap

    Oct 27 to Dec 29 · Caldwell · 9.7 mi · From Caldwell Public Library

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How Seneca Township, Noble County began

Seneca Township lies in the northern part of Noble County. A Seneca Township was one of the five original townships Guernsey County erected on April 28, 1810, but it was soon broken up; in 1830 the land now in Seneca lay in Richland Township, a new Seneca was organized by 1843, and the Noble County commissioners fixed its present 24 sections on May 1, 1851. Timothy Bates, who came from Captina Creek about 1805, was probably its first permanent settler; his mill and distillery just over the present Wayne line drew customers from twenty and thirty miles, and early religious meetings were held in the distillery loft among the whisky barrels. Mount Ephraim, platted in 1838 for Ephraim Vorhies around his moss-chinked log tavern, is the township's only village. In 1872 a mound in the township (one account places it in Beaver Township), known as the Bates Mound, was dug open.

Settled about 1805 (Timothy Bates, probably the earliest permanent settler), platted Mount Ephraim, 1838, for Ephraim Vorhies, incorporated a Seneca Township erected by Guernsey County April 28, 1810; the present Seneca organized by 1843 and altered by Noble County May 1, 1851, by Guernsey County commissioners; boundaries reset by the Noble County commissioners.

Where the name comes from

The name goes back to one of the five original townships of Guernsey County, erected in 1810 and soon divided; a later township called Seneca appears on the tax duplicate by 1843. The area is drained by the Seneca Fork of Wills Creek. No source read says whether the township was named for the stream or directly for the Seneca people, and none records who chose the name.

Before the town

Henry Howe's Historical Collections records that in 1872 one of the numerous Indian mounds in the neighborhood of Seneca Township, known locally as the Bates Mound, was dug open. It held a few broken pieces of pottery, a lot of flint points, one or two stone tools and the remains of three skeletons that crumbled when exposed to the air; Howe's account, and Martin's 1904 version of it, claimed the skeletons were eight feet tall with double teeth, a kind of claim common in nineteenth-century mound reports and not supported by any measurement in the sources. Martin places the mound in Beaver Township instead. Neither source names the builders. The 1887 county history says Timothy Bates came from Captina Creek as soon as settlers dared enter the wilderness on account of the Indians.

  • Bates Mound (mound) — Seneca Township according to Howe; Martin (1904) places it in Beaver Township; exact location not given, prehistoric; builders not identified in the sources; opened 1872 (archive.org)

Timeline

  1. — Timothy Bates and his brother Isaac came from Captina Creek, near the Ohio River, about this year and entered land on section 24.
  2. — Guernsey County erected Seneca as one of its five original townships; it was soon divided into new townships under other names.
  3. — Guernsey County erected Richland Township, which in 1830 included the land now in Seneca, and ordered an election at Samuel Leath's house on July 28.
  4. — The Guernsey County commissioners voted a $2 bounty for every scalp of a wolf over six months old, and many pioneers earned money from it.
  5. — Abraham Rich married Annie Thompson and settled in Seneca Township, after three years in Buffalo Township.
  6. — William Thompson presented a petition for the election of school-section trustees in township 8, range 8, which had twenty electors.
  7. — Timothy Bates's mill was in operation by this year, visited by settlers from many miles around.
  8. — Abraham Rich built a frame house, then the only building of its kind for miles; it still stood in 1887.
  9. — Real estate owners are recorded in what was then Richland Township of Guernsey County, the area that became Seneca Township, among them Abraham Rich, Timothy Bates, David Craft, Samuel and Hiram Danford and Aaron Vorhies.
  10. — Mount Ephraim was platted for Ephraim Vorhies, whose double-log tavern there was known as the Moss Tavern.
  11. — Crawford Glover opened the first store in Mount Ephraim, and the evangelist John Burnett and Timothy Bates began organizing a Christian church there, completed in June 1840.
  12. — St. Michael's Catholic church at Mount Ephraim was founded, according to Martin's 1904 history alone.
  13. — The Christian congregation built a hewed-log meeting-house on a lot, with graveyard, donated by Ephraim Vorhies.
  14. — The Methodist class at Mount Ephraim, organized before 1830, built a frame church.
  15. — The Noble County commissioners altered Seneca Township to its present 24 sections as part of the new county, formed from parts of Guernsey, Morgan, Monroe and Washington counties.
  16. — The Bates Mound was dug open, yielding pottery fragments, flint points, stone tools and three skeletons that crumbled on exposure.
  17. — The census counted 1,004 people in the township; Mount Ephraim had 167, against 162 in 1870.
  18. — The Bates Ridge union church was built for $800, free to all denominations; a Methodist class formed there after a revival that winter.

Stories

The distillery that served as a meeting-house

Timothy Bates, born in Pennsylvania in 1778, built one of the earliest mills in the county, in what is now Wayne Township, north of his Seneca land, and ran a distillery beside it. People came twenty and thirty miles for his whisky, hauling the barrels on two poles harnessed to a horse, pinned in place with wooden pegs; the rig was called cars. Bates also drove hogs to Baltimore, swimming them across the Ohio. He belonged to the Christian church and sometimes preached, and in the early years religious meetings were held in the loft of the distillery, with the whisky barrels serving as pews and pulpit. The 1887 county history remarks that the people of the time saw nothing improper in it.

A wheat field harvested by moonlight

Daniel Meade and his wife Hannah were Methodists and opposed to whisky, at a time when temperance men were rare. One year Meade resolved to get his wheat harvested without it and invited his neighbors to come help on Monday morning. Some of the neighbors, hearing of his plan, gathered on Sunday night with a supply of whisky and cut the whole field by the light of the moon. When Meade got up on Monday, his wheat was already in the shock.

Abraham Rich and the bear

Soon after Abraham Rich came to the township, a fat hog of his wandered off. Following its squeals in the evening, he found it in a ravine, alive but with part of its shoulder eaten away, and a large black bear standing near it. Rich had no gun. He and the bear looked at each other, then each walked off in a different direction. The next evening he came back armed, found the bear again and shot it as it reared to jump a fallen tree. Another winter he tracked a bear into a hollow poplar and left it there until Christmas; when he, Levi Keller and John Rich cut the tree, all three missed their first shots and killed it only after a long fight.

The Moss Tavern

Ephraim Vorhies, son of the Wayne Township pioneer John Vorhies, was the first settler near Mount Ephraim, and the village and a mound-shaped rise nearby were both named for him. Before the town was platted in 1838 he kept a tavern there in a double log house on the McConnelsville and Barnesville road, the earliest route through the township. The spaces between its logs were filled with moss instead of mortar, and it was known across the countryside as the Moss Tavern. The building still stood in 1887 as a residence. The village grew around it with a store from 1839, tobacco packing, a tannery run for about thirty years by an Englishman named Henry Steel, and Christian and Methodist churches.

Photographs

Seneca Township Hall, State Route 147, Mount Ephraim
Seneca Township Hall, State Route 147, Mount Ephraim (2017)
Photo: Nyttend, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Mount Ephraim United Methodist Church, Mud Run Road, Seneca Township
Mount Ephraim United Methodist Church, Mud Run Road, Seneca Township (2017)
Photo: Nyttend, public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Water

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Inside Seneca Township, Noble County's boundary: 67 shale and injection wells and 5 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Shale and injection wells (67)

  1. Ar Miley 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244100000
    Coordinates
    39.85449, -81.45340

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  2. Ar Miley 5HauUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121243460200
    Coordinates
    39.85455, -81.45333

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  3. Billy Sherman N Snc Nb 16 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244740000
    Coordinates
    39.84841, -81.39823

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  4. Billy Sherman S Snc Nb 16 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121243670100
    Coordinates
    39.84826, -81.39813

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  5. Bond-Becker 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245040000
    Coordinates
    39.86509, -81.37101

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  6. Bond-Becker 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245290000
    Coordinates
    39.86506, -81.37097

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  7. Bond-Hall 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245490000
    Coordinates
    39.86503, -81.37093

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  8. Bond-Hall 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245480000
    Coordinates
    39.86501, -81.37089

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  9. Bond-Iles 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245390000
    Coordinates
    39.86490, -81.37073

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  10. Bond-Iles 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245400000
    Coordinates
    39.86487, -81.37069

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  11. Bond-Walsh 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245380000
    Coordinates
    39.86498, -81.37085

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  12. Bond-Walsh 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245360000
    Coordinates
    39.86496, -81.37081

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  13. Bond-Walsh E 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245370000
    Coordinates
    39.86493, -81.37077

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  14. Cynthia-Schafer 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244490000
    Coordinates
    39.88134, -81.40431

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  15. Cynthia-Schafer 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244500000
    Coordinates
    39.88137, -81.40427

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  16. Cynthia-Seneca 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245160000
    Coordinates
    39.88140, -81.40423

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  17. Cynthia-Seneca 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245150000
    Coordinates
    39.88140, -81.40423

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  18. Cynthia-Seneca 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245140000
    Coordinates
    39.88146, -81.40416

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  19. Justice-Vorhies 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244230000
    Coordinates
    39.88254, -81.42279

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  20. Justice-Vorhies 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244240000
    Coordinates
    39.88250, -81.42279

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  21. Justice-Vorhies 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244250000
    Coordinates
    39.88246, -81.42279

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  22. Krupa-Clay 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246450000
    Coordinates
    39.88461, -81.36404

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  23. Krupa-Clay E 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246440000
    Coordinates
    39.88466, -81.36403

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  24. Krupa-Doctor 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246460000
    Coordinates
    39.88453, -81.36404

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  25. Krupa-Doctor 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246480000
    Coordinates
    39.88457, -81.36404

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  26. Krupa-Gopher 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246470000
    Coordinates
    39.88449, -81.36404

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  27. Krupa-Watchtower 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246500000
    Coordinates
    39.88470, -81.36403

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  28. Miley 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245470100
    Coordinates
    39.85278, -81.45743

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  29. Miley 4HUtica shale well · Drilling
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Status (ODNR)
    Drilling
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245460000
    Coordinates
    39.85277, -81.45733
  30. Miley 5HUtica shale well · Well drilled
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Status (ODNR)
    Well drilled
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245440000
    Coordinates
    39.85274, -81.45761

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  31. Miley 6HUtica shale well · Drilling
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Status (ODNR)
    Drilling
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245430000
    Coordinates
    39.85273, -81.45755
  32. Miley 7HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121245420000
    Coordinates
    39.85277, -81.45738

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  33. Moonstone E Snc Nb 8HUtica shale well · Well drilled
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Status (ODNR)
    Well drilled
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121247110000
    Coordinates
    39.83761, -81.38033

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  34. Moonstone S Snc Nb 4HUtica shale well · Well drilled
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Status (ODNR)
    Well drilled
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121247090000
    Coordinates
    39.83763, -81.38047

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  35. Moonstone Se Snc Nb 6HUtica shale well · Well drilled
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Status (ODNR)
    Well drilled
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121247100000
    Coordinates
    39.83761, -81.38040

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  36. Moonstone Sn Nbl 19 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121243960100
    Coordinates
    39.83755, -81.38046

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  37. Moonstone Sn Nbl 19 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244130000
    Coordinates
    39.83756, -81.38053

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  38. Moonstone Sn Nbl 19 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244140000
    Coordinates
    39.83757, -81.38060

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  39. Moonstone Sw Snc Nb 2HUtica shale well · Well drilled
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Status (ODNR)
    Well drilled
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121247080000
    Coordinates
    39.83764, -81.38054

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  40. Myron 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244330000
    Coordinates
    39.88399, -81.39308

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  41. Myron 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244320000
    Coordinates
    39.88402, -81.39305

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  42. Myron 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244310000
    Coordinates
    39.88405, -81.39301

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  43. Myron-Frakes 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244550000
    Coordinates
    39.88392, -81.39313

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  44. Myron-Frakes 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244540000
    Coordinates
    39.88396, -81.39311

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  45. Rich-Milligan 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244080000
    Coordinates
    39.86403, -81.43084

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  46. Rich-Milligan 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244090000
    Coordinates
    39.86407, -81.43083

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  47. Rich-Milligan 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244070000
    Coordinates
    39.86411, -81.43082

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  48. Rich-Neuhart 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244280000
    Coordinates
    39.86423, -81.43079

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  49. Rich-Neuhart W 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244710000
    Coordinates
    39.86415, -81.43081

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  50. Rich-Neuhart W 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244720000
    Coordinates
    39.86419, -81.43080

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  51. Robert-Coal 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244110000
    Coordinates
    39.86194, -81.44097

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  52. Robert-Coal 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244120000
    Coordinates
    39.86197, -81.44094

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  53. Ruby Opal S Snc Nb 4HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246820000
    Coordinates
    39.83837, -81.39334

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  54. Ruby Opal Se Snc Nb 6HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246830000
    Coordinates
    39.83842, -81.39337

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  55. Ruby Opal Sn Nbl 18 1HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244150000
    Coordinates
    39.83758, -81.39294

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  56. Ruby Opal Sn Nbl 18 3HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244190000
    Coordinates
    39.83763, -81.39297

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  57. Ruby Opal Sn Nbl 18 5HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244160000
    Coordinates
    39.83768, -81.39300

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  58. Ruby Opal Sn Nbl 18 7HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244170000
    Coordinates
    39.83772, -81.39302

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  59. Ruby Opal Sn Nbl 18 9HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244180100
    Coordinates
    39.83778, -81.39306

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  60. Ruby Opal Sw Snc Nb 2HUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Ascent Resources Utica Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121246810000
    Coordinates
    39.83832, -81.39331

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  61. Smierciak-Law 1HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244650000
    Coordinates
    39.87989, -81.40856

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  62. Smierciak-Law 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244660000
    Coordinates
    39.87992, -81.40855

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  63. Wayne 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121243890000
    Coordinates
    39.86814, -81.42232

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  64. Wayne 3HauUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121243870000
    Coordinates
    39.86807, -81.42226

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  65. Wayne 4HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244000000
    Coordinates
    39.86804, -81.42223

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  66. Wayne-Scheetz 2HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244270000
    Coordinates
    39.86824, -81.42240

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

  67. Wayne-Scheetz 3HuUtica shale well
    What it is
    Utica shale well
    Drilled sideways
    Yes
    Operator
    Inr Ohio Llc
    County
    Noble County
    API well number
    34121244290000
    Coordinates
    39.86821, -81.42237

    The point is the surface well head (the pad); a horizontal well runs a mile or more underground from it.

Source: ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources well inventory (September 2026): drilled Utica, Marcellus and horizontal wells and Class II injection wells not plugged. Older vertical wells are on the full map.

Spills reported since 2021 (5)

  1. Bentonite / Drilling Mud2023-11-11 · Seneca Twp
    Reported
    2023-11-11
    What spilled
    Bentonite / Drilling Mud
    Largest amount reported
    75 gallons
    Where
    Seneca Twp, Noble County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2311EPA0001928
  2. Bentonite / Drilling Mud Reached water2023-11-09 · Seneca Twp
    Reported
    2023-11-09
    What spilled
    Bentonite / Drilling Mud
    Largest amount reported
    1,000 gallons
    Reached a waterway
    61 - North Fork Buffalo Creek
    Where
    Seneca Twp, Noble County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2311EPA0001916
  3. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2023-10-25 · Seneca Twp
    Reported
    2023-10-25
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    200 gallons
    Where
    Seneca Twp, Noble County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2310EPA0001823
  4. Oil Crude2022-05-30 · Summerfield
    Reported
    2022-05-30
    What spilled
    Oil Crude
    Largest amount reported
    1,500 gallons
    Where
    Summerfield, Noble County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2205EPA0000792
  5. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2022-01-31 · Seneca Twp
    Reported
    2022-01-31
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    28 gallons
    Where
    Seneca Twp, Noble County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2201EPA0000096

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 Seneca Township, Noble County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

Quick answers

What county is Seneca Township, Ohio in?

Seneca Township, Noble County is a township in Guernsey County, Ohio, with 423 residents.

When was Seneca Township, Ohio founded?

Seneca Township, Noble County was settled about 1805 (Timothy Bates, probably the earliest permanent settler); laid out Mount Ephraim, 1838, for Ephraim Vorhies; incorporated a Seneca Township erected by Guernsey County April 28, 1810; the present Seneca organized by 1843 and altered by Noble County May 1, 1851. Founders on record: Guernsey County commissioners; boundaries reset by the Noble County commissioners. Source

How did Seneca Township, Ohio get its name?

The name goes back to one of the five original townships of Guernsey County, erected in 1810 and soon divided; a later township called Seneca appears on the tax duplicate by 1843. Source

What ZIP code is Seneca Township, Ohio?

Seneca Township, Noble County is served by ZIP codes 43779, 43780 and 43788; 43779 holds the largest share of its residents.

Where does Seneca Township, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Seneca Township, Noble County (Clear Water Corporation): Mostly private wells.

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