Shawnee, Village Of

• Shawnee was a genuine coal boomtown: it had roughly 4,000 residents around 1900 but only about 500-600 today, an over 85% population collapse.
• The Cincinnati Reds played a demonstration game in Shawnee in 1906, a sign of the village's regional prominence at its peak.
• Shawnee's 1881 Knights of Labor Opera House and 1907-08 Tecumseh Theater (restored starting 1976) reflect its early organized-labor and immigrant mining history.
• Shawnee today relies entirely on purchased water: it has no wells or treatment plant of its own, buying finished water from Burr Oak Regional Water District, which has served the region since 1959.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

• 1872Railroad reached the site and investor T.J. Davis platted the town on the former Israel Gordon farm.
• 1874Shawnee was incorporated as a village, at the start of a coal, clay, and oil boom.
• 1890s-1900sPopulation peaked near 3,000-4,000 as Welsh, Irish, and Eastern European immigrant miners arrived; the 1890 census recorded 3,266 residents.
• 1890-2020Population fell about 85%, from 3,266 to 505, as coal mining declined through the 20th century.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

How it is treated

Shawnee has no wells or treatment plant of its own; it buys finished water wholesale from Burr Oak Regional Water District (PWSID OH0501311). Burr Oak has operated since 1959, drawing on six groundwater wells that feed a single treatment plant with 4-million-gallon-per-day capacity, four booster…

Source: burroakwater.org

Water pressure

Not published for Shawnee or Burr Oak Regional Water District in sources reviewed.

No rate schedule specific to Shawnee customers was found; Perry County's water/wastewater office handles billing but its site does not name Shawnee or list rates. Burr Oak…

Source: burroakwater.org

EPA compliance record

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.4 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA health-based violations since 2015:

• 2017Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) · exceeded a maximum contaminant level · measured 0.085 MG/L (limit 0.08 MG/L) · returned to compliance

EPA's count of 2 includes 1 repeat quarterly violation of the problems listed.

EPA compliance record · Burr Oak Regional Water District (treats the water)

Lead at the tap: 90th-percentile result 1.7 ppb in 2025 (action level 15 ppb).

EPA record: no health-based violations since 2015.

1 violation of any kind logged since 2020, 1 of them paperwork (monitoring, reporting, public notice or consumer report).

Burr Oak Regional Water District's single 4-MGD groundwater plant supplies 17 satellite systems and 38,000+ people across four counties; this scale gives Shawnee a buffer against a local well failure, but also means a regional supply disruption would affect Shawnee along with many other communities. No specific contamination, drought, or…

Source: burroakwater.org

Sanitary

Not confirmed. Perry County's water/wastewater services are split into Northern and Southern Perry County Water & Wastewater divisions along a boundary at Sheridan Schools; Shawnee, south of county seat New Lexington, would likely fall in the southern district's territory, but Shawnee is not named on the county's water/wastewater page…

Storm

Not published in sources reviewed.

Source: perrycountyohio.gov

Compiled from the utility's own reports and public records, then independently re-checked against primary sources.