Seville

Village · Medina County · 2,335 residents · 1% municipal income tax

Medina County

Local events in Seville

Nothing is posted for Seville itself yet; here is what is on within 10 miles. All local events in Seville

  1. Book Club for Adults- Creston Branch

    7 to 8 p.m. · Creston · Creston · 3.4 mi · From Wayne County Public Library

  2. Family Bingo- Creston Branch

    6 to 7 p.m. · Creston · Creston · 3.4 mi · From Wayne County Public Library

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How Seville began

Seville was platted in 1828 and named for Seville, Spain, reportedly at the suggestion of a former U.S. ambassador to Spain who noted the similarities in climate and setting; a post office opened under the name in 1830, though it was still listed as Guilford until 1873. The village's best-known 19th-century residents were Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and his wife Anna Swan Bates, celebrated in P.T. Barnum's traveling shows and remembered locally as the "Seville Giants," who bought a 130-acre farm just east of the village in the early 1870s. Seville's early brick jail, built to hold prisoners for the surrounding township, and its Phoenix Block commercial building both survive as National Register-listed landmarks; the village is also now home to the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery.

Settled 1828 (platted), platted 1828, incorporated 1853 (though its post office was still listed as Guilford until 1873), by Judge Henry Hosmer, Chester Osmer, Moses Noble, William Bell and Lyman Munson.

Where the name comes from

Founded at the junction of Hubbard Creek and Chippewa Creek by the families of Judge Henry Hosmer, Chester Osmer, Moses Noble, William Bell and Lyman Munson, with Hosmer naming the village in 1828. One local tradition credits the name to a suggestion by a former U.S. ambassador to Spain, who felt the setting resembled Seville, Spain, in climate and situation; another attributes it to author Washington Irving, who reportedly once stayed as a guest at a local hotel. Its post office continued to be listed under the name Guilford until 1873.

Before the town

No Native village, mound, trail or documented encounter site specific to Seville turned up in the sources we checked; the village was platted in 1828, well after the 1805 Treaty of Fort Industry opened Medina County to settlement. The Medina County history carries the fuller treaty context and the one specific, dated Native encounter located in the county -- Potawatomi hunters meeting a squatter in Liverpool Township in 1810.

Timeline

  1. — Judge Henry Hosmer names and lays out the village of Seville at the junction of Hubbard Creek and Chippewa Creek.
  2. — A post office opens under the name Seville.
  3. — Seville formally incorporates as a village, though its post office continues to be listed as Guilford for another two decades.
  4. — The Seville Methodist Church accepts a plot of land at its current location to build a brick building.
  5. — Martin Van Buren Bates, a Kentucky-born Confederate veteran and circus performer, marries Anna Haining Swan, a Nova Scotia-born performer; both stood over 7 feet 6 inches tall.
  6. — Captain and Mrs. Bates move to Ohio and buy a 130-acre farm just east of Seville, building a house designed for their scale; advertised in P.T. Barnum's traveling shows as 8.5 feet tall, they become known locally as the 'Seville Giants.'
  7. — The Seville Jail is built, later listed on the National Register of Historic Places (reference 97001135).
  8. — The Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery opens within Seville's limits.
  9. — The Seville Inn is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Stories

The Seville Giants

In 1871, two of the tallest people ever documented married each other: Martin Van Buren Bates, born in Letcher County, Kentucky in 1839 and standing roughly 7 feet 9 inches, and Anna Haining Swan, a Nova Scotia-born performer who stood even taller, at about 7 feet 11 inches. Both had built careers as circus performers -- Bates as a Confederate veteran turned showman, Swan already a celebrated attraction in her own right -- and P.T. Barnum's traveling shows advertised the married couple as towering 8.5 feet when they appeared together. In 1872 the Bateses settled down, buying a 130-acre farm just east of Seville and building a house with deliberately oversized doorways, furniture and ceilings to suit their scale. Locally they became known simply as the 'Seville Giants,' and though both are long since buried in the village cemetery, their story remains Seville's best-remembered piece of 19th-century history, kept alive today by the village's own museum collection.

A Spanish Name on an Ohio Creek

When Judge Henry Hosmer and four other families -- Chester Osmer, Moses Noble, William Bell and Lyman Munson -- settled the junction of Hubbard Creek and Chippewa Creek in 1828, Hosmer chose an unusual name for a Western Reserve village otherwise surrounded by places called Litchfield, Guilford and Wadsworth after Connecticut and Massachusetts hometowns. Local tradition offers two competing explanations: one credits a former U.S. ambassador to Spain, who supposedly suggested the name because the area's climate and setting reminded him of Seville, Spain; the other credits the author Washington Irving, said to have once stayed as a guest at a hotel kept by a local surgeon who had served with Commodore Perry's fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. Whichever story is true, the Spanish name stuck through a slow start -- the village's post office was still officially listed under the name Guilford until 1873, more than two decades after Seville itself incorporated in 1853.

Photographs

Wood engraving of the 1871 marriage of Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan, the 'Seville Giants.'
Wood engraving of the 1871 marriage of Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan, the 'Seville Giants.' (1871)
Photo: Wellcome Library, London (Wellcome Collection), CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Seville Jail, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Seville Jail, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (2012)
Photo: Duds98, via Wikimedia Commons (Wiki Loves Monuments 2012), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · medinaco.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

Historic places

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

  1. Seville JailBuilding · Seville · listed 1997
    Address
    70 W. Main St.
    Where
    Seville, Medina County · ZIP 44273
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1997
    NRIS reference number
    97001135
    Coordinates
    41.01035, -81.86654

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.

Every historic place in Medina County on the full map

Water

Groundwater wells (2 wells) The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside Seville's boundary: 1 fire or EMS station, 1 power plant, 1 library, 1 police station, 1 public charging site, 1 shale or injection well, 1 Superfund site, 5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 8 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Fire and EMS stations (1)

  1. Seville - Guilford Fire and EMS DepartmentSeville
    Address
    100 West Greenwich Road, Seville, OH 44273
    Coordinates
    41.02491, -81.86437

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.

Power plants (1)

  1. SevillePetroleum · 5 MW
    Capacity
    5 MW
    Main source
    Petroleum
    Technology
    Petroleum Liquids
    Operator
    American Mun Power-Ohio, Inc
    Sector
    Electric Utility
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Generating units
    3
    Built
    2001
    EIA plant code
    7919

Source: EIA-860 power plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025), with plant codes, units and years from EIA-860 2025.

Public libraries (1)

  1. Seville BranchBranch · Seville
    Address
    45 Center St., Seville, OH 44273
    What it is
    Branch
    Library system
    Medina County District Library
    Open
    2,808 hours a year, 52 weeks
    Building
    3,000 sq ft
    System's visits, FY2024
    566,020
    System's loans, FY2024
    2,898,154
    People the system serves
    153,551
    Phone
    (330) 769-2852

Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 (outlets and their systems). Any Ohio resident can get a free card at any Ohio public library.

Police stations (1)

  1. Seville Police DepartmentSeville
    Address
    120 Royal Crest Drive, Seville, OH 44273
    Coordinates
    41.02643, -81.85945

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 (1)

  1. Circle K - Tesla Supercharger DC fast12 DC fast · Seville
    Address
    8700 Wooster Pike, Seville, OH 44273
    Ports
    12 DC fast
    Plugs
    Tesla (NACS)
    Network
    Tesla
    Hours
    24 hours daily. Please check Tesla's online station map to see if an adapter is required at this location.
    Phone
    877-798-3752

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list (May 2026), public and open stations, the posts at one address counted as one site.

Shale and injection wells (1)

  1. Bleach Tech (Smp #1) 6 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
    What it is
    Injection well (Class II)
    Operator
    Bleachtech Llc
    County
    Medina County
    API well number
    34103250400000
    Coordinates
    41.02939, -81.87429

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.

Superfund sites (1)

  1. Akron ProductsSuperfund program · Seville
    Address
    49 Milton Street, Seville, OH 44273
    County
    Medina County
    Status
    Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
    EPA program ID
    OHN000508948
    EPA registry ID
    110071102065

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS) and National Priorities List sites. Many program sites were assessed and needed no cleanup.

Facilities reporting toxic releases (5)

  1. Akron Products CoToxics Release Inventory · Seville
    Address
    21 Mill Street, Seville, OH 44273
    County
    Medina County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44273KRNPR21MIL
    EPA registry ID
    110000766788
  2. Blair Rubber CoToxics Release Inventory · Seville
    Address
    5020 Panther Pkwy, Seville, OH 44273
    County
    Medina County County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)
    EPA program ID
    44273BLRRB52PAN
    EPA registry ID
    110031000404
  3. Bleachtech LlcToxics Release Inventory · Seville
    Address
    8929 Ryan Rd, Seville, OH 44273
    County
    Medina County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44273BLCHT8929R
    EPA registry ID
    110031396102
  4. Diebold IncToxics Release Inventory · Seville
    Address
    4700 Greenwich Rd., Seville, OH 44273
    County
    Medina County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    44273DBLDN4700G
    EPA registry ID
    110000389062
  5. Seville Centrifugal Bronze IncToxics Release Inventory · Seville
    Address
    22 Milton St., Seville, OH 44273
    County
    Medina County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)
    EPA program ID
    44273SVLLC22MIL
    EPA registry ID
    110000389071

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 (8)

  1. Hydrochloric Acid / Muriatic Acid (Hcl)2025-01-17 · Seville
    Reported
    2025-01-17
    What spilled
    Hydrochloric Acid / Muriatic Acid (Hcl)
    Largest amount reported
    1,000 gallons
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2501EPA0000061
  2. Hydrochloric Acid / Muriatic Acid (Hcl)2024-01-15 · Seville
    Reported
    2024-01-15
    What spilled
    Hydrochloric Acid / Muriatic Acid (Hcl)
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2401EPA0000082
  3. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road) Reached water2022-12-07 · Wadsworth Twp
    Reported
    2022-12-07
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Reached a waterway
    Styx River
    Where
    Wadsworth Twp, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2212EPA0001821
  4. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2022-11-19 · Seville
    Reported
    2022-11-19
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Largest amount reported
    10 gallons
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2211EPA0001720
  5. Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2022-08-09 · Seville
    Reported
    2022-08-09
    What spilled
    Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2208EPA0001209
  6. Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2021-10-07 · Seville
    Reported
    2021-10-07
    What spilled
    Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
    Largest amount reported
    15 gallons
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2110EPA0001584
  7. Chlorine (Cl) (Gas)2021-07-06 · Seville
    Reported
    2021-07-06
    What spilled
    Chlorine (Cl) (Gas)
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2107EPA0000996
  8. Material Undetermined / Other2021-06-12 · Seville
    Reported
    2021-06-12
    What spilled
    Material Undetermined / Other
    Where
    Seville, Medina County
    Ohio EPA district office
    NEDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2106EPA0000847

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

Local government

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

Money issues on the ballot since 2019: 3 of 3 passed.

Ballot issues

DateIssueForAgainstResult
2024-11-05 Issue 10: Proposed Tax Levy Seville Village (levy type not on the results report) 964551Passed (63.63% for), unofficial
2019-11-05 23: 23 Proposed Tax Levy Seville Village 311118Passed (72.49% for)
2019-11-05 24: 24 Proposed Tax Levy Seville Village 33097Passed (77.28% for)

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2025-11-04 Member of Council (unofficial count) Dennis Gordon 370, 48.62%; Kathy A. Rhoads 391, 51.38%
2025-11-04 Member of Board of Public Affairs (unofficial count) Richard Barbera 414, 100.0%
2023-11-07 Member of Council (unofficial count) Randy Eby 624, 51.7%; Leslie A. Miler 583, 48.3%
2023-11-07 Member of Board of Public Affairs (unofficial count) Brian Greer 594, 51.88%; Carlene Klinect 551, 48.12%
2023-11-07 Mayor (unofficial count) Carol Carter 733, 100.0%
2021-11-02 Member of Council (unofficial count) Brad Demiter 253, 24.71%; Kathy A. Rhoads 281, 27.44%; W. Matthew Sturgeon 239, 23.34%; Rick Vierheller 251, 24.51%
2021-11-02 Member of Board of Public Affairs (unofficial count) Richard Barbera 211, 63.75%; Write-In: Nathan Stallard 118, 35.65%
2019-11-05 Member of Council Sue A. Frey 304, 48.03%; Leslie A. Miller 329, 51.97%
2019-11-05 Member of Board of Public Affairs Brian Greer 315, 49.37%; Larry L. Landis 323, 50.63%
2019-11-05 Mayor Carol Carter 361, 100.0%
2017-11-07 Public Affairs Richard Barbera 392, 100.0%
2017-11-07 Council Brad Demiter 293, 23.05%; Kathy Rhoads 345, 27.14%; Rick Stallard 349, 27.46%; Glenn E. Vierheller 284, 22.34%

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

Rain and snow

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

rain, last 30 days
1.87 in
2026-09-29 to 2026-10-28
rain so far in 2026
35.2 in
about normal for the date
snow so far in 2026
32.4 in
a normal year brings 39.8 in
a normal year
40.9 in
average of 30 years, 1991-2020
The last twelve months
MonthRain (in)Snow (in)Days counted
October 2026 1.87 — 28
September 2026 4.51 — 30
August 2026 3.89 — 31
July 2026 2.77 — 31
June 2026 3.21 — 30
May 2026 4.98 — 31
April 2026 7.40 0.2 30
March 2026 4.52 1.5 31
February 2026 0.69 9.8 28
January 2026 1.41 21.0 31
December 2025 2.27 12.1 31
November 2025 1.46 4.3 30
On the record, 1893–2026
Wettest year2011 — 61.8 in
Driest year1963 — 21.9 in
Snowiest year1910 — 78.4 in
Wettest day on record5 July 1969 — 4.89 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day9 November 1913 — 20.70 in
Deepest snow on the ground27 December 1995 — 21.75 in

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

48,604 days of records, 1893-01-01 to 2026-10-28. 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 Seville: 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
31
those placed on the map inside Seville

Data centers, power and big tech here. Ohio EPA files that name a data-center company, a power plant or substation, or a large technology firm:

  • OMEGA JV2 - SEVILLE DIESEL GENERATING STATION (air pollution, latest Jul 22, 2025)
What kind of permits
ProgramFacilities and sites
Voluntary cleanup8
Air pollution4
Contaminated-site cleanup4
Site assessment4
Hazardous waste3
State sewer loans2
State water loans2
Wastewater and stormwater discharge2
Public drinking water1
Source-water protection1
The latest filings
DateFacility or siteWhat
AUTUMN MEADOWS SUBDIVISION PHASE 6 Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water report
48FORTY SEVILLE Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
GREAT LAKES PETROLEUM-SEVILLE BULK PLANT Voluntary cleanup covenant
CENTERRA CO-OP SEVILLE Voluntary cleanup inspection
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water plan
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water inspection
GREAT LAKES PETROLEUM-SEVILLE BULK PLANT Voluntary cleanup covenant
CENTERRA CO-OP SEVILLE Voluntary cleanup inspection
GREAT LAKES PETROLEUM-SEVILLE BULK PLANT Voluntary cleanup covenant
GREAT LAKES PETROLEUM-SEVILLE BULK PLANT Voluntary cleanup covenant
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water monitoring results
GREAT LAKES PETROLEUM-SEVILLE BULK PLANT Voluntary cleanup covenant
GREAT LAKES PETROLEUM-SEVILLE BULK PLANT Voluntary cleanup covenant
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water violation resolved
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water letter
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water inspection
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water inspection
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water monitoring results
CENTERRA CO-OP SEVILLE Voluntary cleanup inspection
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
OMEGA JV2 - SEVILLE DIESEL GENERATING STATION Air pollution inspection
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Source-water protection report
SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water report

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 Seville, Ohio in?

Seville is a village in Medina County, Ohio, with 2,335 residents.

When was Seville, Ohio founded?

Seville was settled 1828 (platted); laid out 1828; incorporated 1853 (though its post office was still listed as Guilford until 1873). Founders on record: Judge Henry Hosmer, Chester Osmer, Moses Noble, William Bell and Lyman Munson. Source

How did Seville, Ohio get its name?

Founded at the junction of Hubbard Creek and Chippewa Creek by the families of Judge Henry Hosmer, Chester Osmer, Moses Noble, William Bell and Lyman Munson, with Hosmer naming the village in 1828. Source

What ZIP code is Seville, Ohio?

Most of Seville is in ZIP code 44273.

Where does Seville, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for Seville (Seville Village): Groundwater wells (2 wells).

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