Local events in Shalersville Township, Portage County
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How Shalersville Township, Portage County began
Shalersville Township, surveyed as Town 4, Range 8 of the Connecticut Western Reserve and covering about 28 square miles, takes its name from General Nathaniel Shaler, its original proprietor; it was first known as Middletown, after Shaler's hometown of Middletown, Connecticut. The Baker family of Tolland County, Connecticut, led by Joel Baker, became the township's first settlers in 1806, and township government organized in 1812. A post office served the community from 1824 to 1904. It is the only Shalersville Township in Ohio, and the county's own water history records the Ohio EPA's ongoing source-water assessment of the county's Shalersville well field, still found highly susceptible to contamination as of 2025. Today the township has 5,245 residents (2020).
Settled 1806 (Joel Baker family, of Tolland County, Connecticut), incorporated Township government organized 1812, by General Nathaniel Shaler (proprietor); Joel Baker (first settler).
Where the name comes from
Named for General Nathaniel Shaler, the township's original Connecticut proprietor; it was first called Middletown, for Shaler's own hometown of Middletown, Connecticut, before taking the proprietor's own name.
Before the town
No Native American village, camp or mound site specific to Shalersville Township is documented in the sources consulted, and the township is not among those the 1957 county history 'Portage Heritage' lists as holding recorded prehistoric sites. For the county's broader Native history.
Timeline
- — The family of Joel Baker, of Tolland County, Connecticut, becomes the township's first settlers.
- — Simeon Crane and his brothers Belden and Calvin build two log houses and move in for good in 1809; Lucinda Baker, born this year to the first settler, is the first child in the township.
- — Simeon Crane's son E. M. Crane, born June 14, is the first male child; Hezekiah Hine and Mary Atwater of Mantua are married, the township's first wedding, by Squire Elias Harmon.
- — Township government is organized.
- — Nathan Muzzy, a Yale graduate hired by Stephen Mason, finds a sawmill site on the Cuyahoga near the township's western line; a freshet destroys the new dam before the mill can run, and Mason later adds a grist-mill and becomes sheriff in 1814.
- — Silas Crocker, fifteen, comes with the Thompson families; he lives to eighty-five and serves as justice of the peace for many years.
- — George Barnes is elected justice of the peace by votes thrown away, as the voters supposed, on a man who lived in a corner of the township with no road to his place; he serves well, and three appeals from his decisions are all upheld.
- — A post office opens in the township.
- — General David McIntosh, a poor boy who worked for Judge Atwater and became a major-general of militia, dies on April 17 and leaves money to furnish flags to the county forever.
- — The township post office closes.
- — The township's population is 2,823, rising to 4,967 in 1970 and 5,976 in 2000.
- — The census counts 5,245 people; the Portage County Airport is in the southern part of the township.
- — The Ohio EPA updates its source water assessment for Portage County's Shalersville well field, again finding the aquifer highly susceptible to contamination.
Stories
A proprietor's hometown, twice over
General Nathaniel Shaler, the Connecticut proprietor who held title to this township, never lived on the land himself, but he left his mark on it twice. First the settlement was informally called Middletown, borrowing the name of Shaler's own hometown in Connecticut — a common pattern across the Western Reserve, where transplanted New Englanders often reached for a familiar name before settling on something more permanent. When the township organized formally in 1812, six years after the Baker family had arrived from Tolland County to become its first settlers, it took Shaler's own surname instead, becoming the only Shalersville in Ohio.
The constable who served himself
The first lawsuit in Shalersville, in the first two years after the township's organization on April 6, 1812, was Greenhood Burroughs against Richard Gay, the constable, to recover the value of a cow bell that had been lent and lost. Since the constable had to serve the summons, Gay is said to have taken himself aside and gravely read it to himself; the plaintiff did not recover. In 1815 the voters dissatisfied with the regular candidates for justice threw their votes, as they supposed, away on George Barnes, an erratic man living in the southwest corner of the township without a road to his place; when the ballots were counted Barnes was elected. Everybody was surprised, but Barnes pocketed the joke, qualified, and made a good justice. Meanwhile the township's founder, General Nathaniel Shaler of Middletown, Connecticut, a violent Federalist, is said to have refused to light his windows for his son-in-law Commodore McDonough's victory on Lake Champlain until the crowd threatened to tear his house down.
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · archive.org · archive.org
Historic places
1 place in Shalersville Township, Portage County on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.
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Nelson, Luman, HouseBuilding · Ravenna · listed 1993
- Address
- 8219 OH 44
- Where
- Ravenna, Portage County · ZIP 44266
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1993
- NRIS reference number
- 93001393
- Coordinates
- 41.21487, -81.24246
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
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.
Water
Mostly private wells The water here
- Ravenna City53% of residentsLake Hodgson
- Streetsboro City25% of residentsBuried valley/sandstone aquifer wells (12 county wells)
- Portage County Wr - Mantua Village9% of residentsGroundwater wells (3 wells)
- Blackbrook Valley Estates3% of residentsGroundwater wells (3 wells)
- Maple Del Manor Llc2% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Aurora Estates2% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Birchwood Manor Mhc New2% of residentsGroundwater wells (1 wells)
- Mantua Mobile Home Park2% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Aqua Ohio - Aurora E1% of residentsBuried valley/sandstone aquifer wells (12 county wells)
- Aurora City - Portage1% of residentsBuried valley/sandstone aquifer wells (12 county wells)
- Ranch Club Estates Water Association0% of residentsGroundwater wells (2 wells)
- Orchard Estates I Mhc, Llc0% of residentsBuried valley/sandstone aquifer wells (12 county wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Shalersville Township, Portage County's boundary: 1 fire or EMS station, 1 high-hazard dam, 1 museum, 1 police station, 4 shale and injection wells, 2 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)
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Mantua - Shalersville Fire DepartmentMantua
- Address
- 10303 State Highway 44, Mantua, OH 44255
- Coordinates
- 41.27304, -81.22916
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.
High-hazard dams (1)
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Tucaway Lake DamEckert Ditch · condition: fair
- Hazard class
- High: a failure would probably cost a life
- Condition
- Fair (assessed 12/08/2021)
- River or stream
- Eckert Ditch
- Purpose
- Recreation
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 25 ft
- Storage
- 1,163 acre-feet
- Completed
- 1973
- Owner type
- Private
- County
- Portage County
- Nearest town (NID)
- Kent
- Last inspection
- 12/08/2021
- Emergency action plan
- No
- NID ID
- OH00670
National Inventory of Dams record ↗ National Inventory of Dams (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams, August 2026. "High hazard" rates what a failure would cost downstream, not how likely one is; the condition is the state's assessment.
Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)
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William Marsh Bower CenterMuseum · Ravenna
- What it is
- Museum
- City
- Ravenna
- Coordinates
- 41.20877, -81.24652
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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Portage County Sheriff's OfficeRavenna
- Address
- 8240 Infirmary Road, Ravenna, OH 44266
- Coordinates
- 41.21439, -81.25795
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.
Shale and injection wells (4)
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F. Crane {Swiw #14} 1 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
- What it is
- Injection well (Class II)
- Operator
- Petrox, Inc
- County
- Portage County
- API well number
- 34133214590000
- Coordinates
- 41.20820, -81.22559
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Ferrara & Ferrara Inc. {Swiw #27} 2 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
- What it is
- Injection well (Class II)
- Operator
- Select Water Solutions, Llc
- County
- Portage County
- API well number
- 34133214730000
- Coordinates
- 41.20703, -81.19453
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Kovach {Erp#1} 1 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
- What it is
- Injection well (Class II)
- Operator
- Ows Acquisition Co Llc
- County
- Portage County
- API well number
- 34133214390000
- Coordinates
- 41.25921, -81.27152
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Solak {Swiw #3} 1 InjectionInjection well (Class II)
- What it is
- Injection well (Class II)
- Operator
- Ows Acquisition Co Llc
- County
- Portage County
- API well number
- 34133207470000
- Coordinates
- 41.26686, -81.28139
ODNR oil and gas wells (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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 (2)
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Quikrete - Cleveland, Oh PlantToxics Release Inventory · Ravenna
- Address
- 2693 Lake Rockwell Rd, Ravenna, OH 44266
- County
- Portage County County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (***unchanged***)
- EPA program ID
- 4426WQKRTC2693L
- EPA registry ID
- 110071432986
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Viega LlcToxics Release Inventory · Mantua
- Address
- 4400 Beck Rd, Mantua, OH 44255
- County
- Portage County County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (***unchanged***)
- EPA program ID
- 4425WVGLLC44BEC
- EPA registry ID
- 110072195414
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 (8)
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Oil Transformer Non Pcb2025-02-17 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2025-02-17
- What spilled
- Oil Transformer Non Pcb
- Largest amount reported
- 300 gallons
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2502EPA0000219
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Drilling Waste / Cuttings2024-11-27 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2024-11-27
- What spilled
- Drilling Waste / Cuttings
- Largest amount reported
- 20 gallons
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2411EPA0001950
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Paint Nos / Lacquer (Not Specified)2024-08-02 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2024-08-02
- What spilled
- Paint Nos / Lacquer (Not Specified); Chemical(S) Unk
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2408EPA0001323
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Oil Crude2024-06-10 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2024-06-10
- What spilled
- Oil Crude
- Largest amount reported
- 420 gallons
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2406EPA0000973
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Bentonite / Drilling Mud2024-03-19 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2024-03-19
- What spilled
- Bentonite / Drilling Mud
- Largest amount reported
- 50 gallons
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2403EPA0000435
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Bentonite / Drilling Mud2024-03-06 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2024-03-06
- What spilled
- Bentonite / Drilling Mud
- Largest amount reported
- 3 gallons
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2403EPA0000355
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2023-03-10 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2023-03-10
- What spilled
- Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
- Largest amount reported
- 150 gallons
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2303EPA0000369
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sewage Sludge / Biosolids Reached water2021-05-26 · Shalersville Twp
- Reported
- 2021-05-26
- What spilled
- Sewage Sludge / Biosolids
- Reached a waterway
- 67 - Cuyahoga River
- Where
- Shalersville Twp, Portage County
- Ohio EPA district office
- NEDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2105EPA0000740
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 Shalersville Township, Portage County, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
Local government
Who holds office in Shalersville Township, Portage County, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- Agreed Upon Procedures, 2023 to 2024, released 2025-12-30
The county
Portage County: 15 ZIP codes, 29 cities, villages and townships, 169,745 people.
Nearby places
Quick answers
What county is Shalersville Township, Ohio in?
Shalersville Township, Portage County is a township in Portage County, Ohio, with 5,245 residents.
When was Shalersville Township, Ohio founded?
Shalersville Township, Portage County was settled 1806 (Joel Baker family, of Tolland County, Connecticut); incorporated Township government organized 1812. Founders on record: General Nathaniel Shaler (proprietor); Joel Baker (first settler). Source
How did Shalersville Township, Ohio get its name?
Named for General Nathaniel Shaler, the township's original Connecticut proprietor; it was first called Middletown, for Shaler's own hometown of Middletown, Connecticut, before taking the proprietor's own name. Source
What ZIP code is Shalersville Township, Ohio?
Shalersville Township, Portage County is served by ZIP codes 44255, 44266 and 44241; 44255 holds the largest share of its residents.
Where does Shalersville Township, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Shalersville Township, Portage County (Ravenna City): Mostly private wells.
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