ZIP code 44828: Thompson Township and Flat Rock

Seneca County · 186 residents · Flat Rock post office; 100% of residents live in the township of Thompson Township

Mostly private wells. No community water system mapped here. The water here

Seneca County

44828 in 10 facts

The 10 things that stand out about this ZIP against the other 1,232 in Ohio, each with its source.

  1. Where the water comes from Where the water here comes from: Mostly private wells. Source: EPA SDWIS
  2. Historic places 0 This ZIP has few listed historic places: 0 on the National Register, fewer than 52% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: National Register data
  3. Traffic 254 vehicles a day Traffic runs light here: the busiest counted road carries 254 vehicles a day, fewer than 99% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: ODOT TIMS traffic count segments
  4. People 1% Educational attainment runs low here: 1% of adults 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree, lower than 98% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: Census ACS
  5. Groundwater 185 Groundwater here is more vulnerable than most: a DRASTIC index of 185, higher than 98% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: ODNR Geological Survey
  6. Air 9.9 µg/m³ Air quality runs worse here: PM2.5 at the nearest monitor averages 9.9 µg/m³, higher than 96% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: EPA air data files
  7. Wetlands 0.0% This ZIP has little mapped wetland: 0.0% of the land, lower than 93% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: USFWS wetlands inventory
  8. Airports and Amtrak 53.5 mi This ZIP sits far from a scheduled-service airport: the nearest is 53.5 miles away, farther than 95% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: BTS transportation atlas
  9. Aquifer 100% This ZIP sits over a sensitive aquifer setting: 100% of the land is in an Ohio EPA sensitive geologic setting, more than 90% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: Ohio EPA geology layers
  10. Toxic sites 39.4 mi This ZIP sits far from a federal Superfund site: the nearest is 39.4 miles away, farther than 95% of Ohio ZIPs. Source: EPA Facility Registry

Where does the tap water come from?

Where the tap water comes from and what is in it: the lake, river, reservoir or aquifer behind every tap, the plant that treats it, and what the compliance record and the lab results say about it.

Where the water comes from

Mostly private wells

Mostly private wellsNo community water system mapped here

Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water… · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey

Mostly private wells
No community water system is mapped here, so homes likely rely on private wells or small non-community systems.

Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · EPA service area boundaries · Ohio EPA drinking water · Ohio EPA rate survey

Violationsprivate wellsRadonno testsStream health100% of land drains to streams failing aquatic lifeNearest sewage plantCity of Bellevue Water Pollution Control Facility, 3.2 mi, 4/12 quarters in violationGroundwaterDRASTIC 185, 37 well logsElectricOhio EdisonGas pipelinenearest transmission line 0.8 miNearest power plantFremont Energy Center 18.5 mi, 685 MW gasGasColumbia Gas of Ohio, 100% on gasSchool districtBellevue CitySocial vulnerability49th percentile in OhioUpward mobilityrank 44 for low-income childrenPeople0.8% with a degree, 0% born abroadJobs50 jobs here, residents mostly work in TiffinSchool tax29.9 mills, ~$2,096 on a $200K homePhoneFrontier NorthFlood0% in floodplainInternet100% served, fiber 67%Hazard risk24, above 24% of US tractsOil and gas wellsnone inside, nearest 0.99 miSoilsMilton, septic very limitedAbandoned minesnone mappedSpills0 reported since 2021Disasters8 tornado tracks within 5 mi, 16 FEMA declarationsDams5 high-hazard within 10 mi, nearest 2.6 miTraffic254 a day on county road 29Bridgesnone insideRail crossings1 public crossing, up to 26 trains a dayTransit0% within half a mile of a stopWalkability4.0 of 20, least walkableAirportCLE 53.5 mi, Amtrak 16 miClimate33" snow, 51°F averageAlgal toxinsprivate wellsPFASprivate wellsLeadprivate wellsByproductsno samples on fileFluorideprivate wellsWatershedSandusky, Pickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky BayLocal governmentThompson TownshipCell signal5G on 100% of landU.S. HouseOH-5 Bob Latta (R)Life expectancy78.4 yearsHealth19% fair or poor health, obesity 37%Nearest hospitalBellevue Hospital, 3.8 mi, 4★Toxic sitesSuperfund 39.4 mi away, 0 TRIToxic releasesno TRI reporterAirPM2.5 9.9 µg/m³, monitor 44.4 miFire/EMSBellevue Fire Department, 2.8 miLibraryBellevue Public Library, 2.8 miGroceries99% over 1 mi from a supermarketEV chargersfast charger 2.7 mi, 0 stations hereHistorynot researched yetHistoric placesnearest Henny Barn, 0.5 miWetlands0.0% of land, 0 acresLand cover57% developed, 2% tree canopyParks0% public land, East Harbor State Park 20.7 miNursing homeBELLEVUE CARE CENTER, 1 mi, 5★PoliceBellevue Police Station, 3.2 miCrime0.6 violent per 1,000, Seneca County SheriffAquifer100% sensitive setting, karst, thin driftCollegeElite School of Cosmetology, 13.1 miSchool ratings4 stars, Bellevue CityHome pricesno indexBuilding permitshouses not surveyed in Seneca CountyHomes and incomeno dataHouses62 homes (parcel list)

Infrastructure in this ZIP

0.5 mi of railroad (Norfolk Southern) · 1 grade crossing (Norfolk Southern) · 1 post office · 1 other permitted discharger (Flat Rock Homes).

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Intakes and plants

Mostly private wells

Mostly private wellsNo community water system mapped here

Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water… · EPA SDWIS · Ohio EPA source water protection

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Mostly private wells
No community water system is mapped here, so homes likely rely on private wells or small non-community systems.

Source: U.S. EPA SDWIS and Community Water System Service Area Boundaries (v3, 2026), Ohio EPA primacy data, 2020 census blocks: the system serving most residents, traced through purchases to the treating utility; Ohio EPA 2023 Sewer and Water Rate Survey (Ohio State, May 2025) for household bills; Ohio EPA DEFA loan awards since 2016 for the loans paragraph · EPA SDWIS · Ohio EPA source water protection

Violationsprivate wellsRadonno testsStream health100% of land drains to streams failing aquatic lifeNearest sewage plantCity of Bellevue Water Pollution Control Facility, 3.2 mi, 4/12 quarters in violationGroundwaterDRASTIC 185, 37 well logsElectricOhio EdisonGas pipelinenearest transmission line 0.8 miNearest power plantFremont Energy Center 18.5 mi, 685 MW gasGasColumbia Gas of Ohio, 100% on gasSchool districtBellevue CitySocial vulnerability49th percentile in OhioUpward mobilityrank 44 for low-income childrenPeople0.8% with a degree, 0% born abroadJobs50 jobs here, residents mostly work in TiffinSchool tax29.9 mills, ~$2,096 on a $200K homePhoneFrontier NorthFlood0% in floodplainInternet100% served, fiber 67%Hazard risk24, above 24% of US tractsOil and gas wellsnone inside, nearest 0.99 miSoilsMilton, septic very limitedAbandoned minesnone mappedSpills0 reported since 2021Disasters8 tornado tracks within 5 mi, 16 FEMA declarationsDams5 high-hazard within 10 mi, nearest 2.6 miTraffic254 a day on county road 29Bridgesnone insideRail crossings1 public crossing, up to 26 trains a dayTransit0% within half a mile of a stopWalkability4.0 of 20, least walkableAirportCLE 53.5 mi, Amtrak 16 miClimate33" snow, 51°F averageAlgal toxinsprivate wellsPFASprivate wellsLeadprivate wellsByproductsno samples on fileFluorideprivate wellsWatershedSandusky, Pickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky BayLocal governmentThompson TownshipCell signal5G on 100% of landU.S. HouseOH-5 Bob Latta (R)Life expectancy78.4 yearsHealth19% fair or poor health, obesity 37%Nearest hospitalBellevue Hospital, 3.8 mi, 4★Toxic sitesSuperfund 39.4 mi away, 0 TRIToxic releasesno TRI reporterAirPM2.5 9.9 µg/m³, monitor 44.4 miFire/EMSBellevue Fire Department, 2.8 miLibraryBellevue Public Library, 2.8 miGroceries99% over 1 mi from a supermarketEV chargersfast charger 2.7 mi, 0 stations hereHistorynot researched yetHistoric placesnearest Henny Barn, 0.5 miWetlands0.0% of land, 0 acresLand cover57% developed, 2% tree canopyParks0% public land, East Harbor State Park 20.7 miNursing homeBELLEVUE CARE CENTER, 1 mi, 5★PoliceBellevue Police Station, 3.2 miCrime0.6 violent per 1,000, Seneca County SheriffAquifer100% sensitive setting, karst, thin driftCollegeElite School of Cosmetology, 13.1 miSchool ratings4 stars, Bellevue CityHome pricesno indexBuilding permitshouses not surveyed in Seneca CountyHomes and incomeno dataHouses62 homes (parcel list)

Infrastructure in this ZIP

0.5 mi of railroad (Norfolk Southern) · 1 grade crossing (Norfolk Southern) · 1 post office · 1 other permitted discharger (Flat Rock Homes).

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Violations

No data

Mostly private wells, no system record

Source: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026): health-based violations since 2015, all violations since 2020, lead and copper 90th-percentile results, for the system serving most of the ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO

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Drinking-water compliance

Most homes here are on private wells, which EPA does not regulate or test; a well owner tests on their own.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026), violations and lead and copper sampling for the system that serves most of this ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO

Disinfection byproducts

No data

No byproduct samples on file

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019: total trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids (HAA5) sampled in the distribution system, nitrate, arsenic, combined radium, gross alpha and uranium at entry points; yearly means…

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Byproducts and contaminants

Most homes here are on private wells, which nobody samples for compliance; a well owner tests on their own.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019 (TTHM, HAA5 and coliform from distribution-system samples of the system that serves most of this ZIP; nitrate, arsenic, radionuclides, solvents, herbicides and metals from the entry points of the same system); non-detects counted as zero

PFAS

No data

Mostly private wells, untested

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026: 29 PFAS and lithium at 347 Ohio systems) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 (1,479 systems), for the system serving most of each ZIP; Ohio EPA water treatment plant… · Ohio EPA PFAS

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PFAS

Most homes here are on private wells, which nobody tests for PFAS unless the owner pays for it.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 and its current status map, for the system that serves most of this ZIP; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS

Lead

No data

Mostly private wells, no system record

Source: SDWIS lead and copper 90th-percentile tap results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2 submissions), for the system serving most of each ZIP; Ohio Department of Health high-risk ZIP code list for childhood… · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio

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Lead at the tap

Most homes here are on private wells; lead there comes from the house plumbing, and only a lab test of the tap will find it.

Children: the Ohio Department of Health lists this ZIP as high-risk for childhood lead exposure, mostly from old paint and soil, so every child living here should get a blood lead test at ages 1 and 2 (Medicaid covers it, and doctors are required to order it).

Housing age: 100% of the homes here were built before 1960 and 76% before 1940, when lead service lines, lead solder and lead paint were common; 100% predate 1980 (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System lead and copper 90th-percentile results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2), for the system that serves most of this ZIP · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio

Fluoride and treatment

No record

Mostly private wells

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride (fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health, fetched 2026-09-10); SDWIS treatment table (Envirofacts): each system's registered treatment steps, inherited from the supplier for… · EPA SDWIS search

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Fluoride and treatment

Most homes here are on private wells: no fluoride is added, and any treatment is the household softener or filter.

The health department counts 100% of Seneca County residents on community water as receiving fluoridated water.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride, fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health; EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System treatment table for the system serving most of this ZIP; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring, 2012 to 2019; Ohio Department of Health fluoridation report (DataOhio) for the county share · EPA SDWIS search

Algal toxins

No data

Mostly private wells

Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (geo.epa.ohio.gov DrinkingWater/HAB): microcystin results in raw and treated water since 2016 for surface-water systems, for the system serving most of each ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems

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Algal toxins

Most homes here are on private wells, which algal blooms do not reach.

Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (HAB data and map, DrinkingWater/HAB service, fetched 2026-09-09), total microcystins by ELISA in raw and treated water, for the system that serves most of this ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems

Groundwater

160 and up

DRASTIC 185 · Limestone37 well logs · median 200 ft deep · 7 karst and spring points

Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey: DRASTIC groundwater vulnerability polygon at each ZIP's population center, mapped karst features, and the state water well log inventory (about 655,000 logs) counted inside each ZIP; ODNR glacial… · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data

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Groundwater

185DRASTIC groundwater vulnerability index under the population center (23 least to 230 most vulnerable; Ohio runs about 80 to 200)
Under the surface
glacial till (clay-rich, poor yields), part of the Tiffin Thin Upland Aquifer (thin upland setting); wells there yield < 5 gallons a minute, deposits < 25 ft thick
Bedrock
Delaware and Columbus Limestones, yielding 25 - 100 gpm to a well
Setting
Limestone; water table 50-75 ft down, 10+ in/yr recharge, clay shrink-swell soil (hydrogeologic setting 7K); pesticide index 206
Karst
7 karst and spring points in ODNR's inventory inside the ZIP (4 field-verified), 41.3 per square mile
Well logs
37 drilled wells on file (198.9 per 1,000 residents), median 200 ft deep, 15 gallons a minute median test yield, water 100 ft down
Aquifers
100% of wells in bedrock, 0% in sand, gravel and other unconsolidated material; typical well drilled 1970, 11 since 2000; uses: Domestic 23, Drainage 6
Wellhead protection
100% of this ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA source water protection areas for 2 public water systems; the largest, Bubbarock Meat Co, is rated high susceptibility in a karst setting
Geology
100% of the ZIP is a sensitive geologic setting, where thin or sandy cover leaves the aquifer open to what soaks in from the surface; its population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under less than 20 ft of drift; 4 field-verified sinkholes and 3 probable sinkholes inside the ZIP, where surface water can pour straight into the aquifer (Ohio EPA and ODNR Geological Survey)
Injection wells
11 Class V injection wells on Ohio EPA's books inside this ZIP (11 active): 11 stormwater drainage; these put fluids underground above or into drinking water aquifers
Water table
E-10 OH monitoring well (USGS), 5.1 mi away: water 48.3 ft below ground on 2026-09-08; averaged 39.9 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 47.7 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 7.8 ft lower; range 4.1 to 65.2 ft over 4,165 readings since 2015
Nitrate risk
EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Pickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 30% if it draws on groundwater and 38% if it draws on rivers or lakes, judged from land use, geology and past results (EnviroAtlas nitrate violation index; the typical Ohio subwatershed scores 23% for groundwater and 39% for surface water)
Quality monitoring
Ohio EPA's nearest ambient groundwater monitoring well is Vickery Environmental (Sandusky County), 11 mi away: 59 ft deep in limestone or dolomite (Undiff Salina Dolom aquifer); bedrock 43 ft down; wells there yield 5 to 25 gallons a minute; sampled on the standard cycle. 2 active wells within 15 mi

Vulnerability rates how easily a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer, not whether anything has. Well logs include abandoned and replaced wells, so counts overstate wells in use; a private well owner is the only one who tests it.

Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey, Groundwater Vulnerability (DRASTIC) map (polygon at the ZIP's population-weighted center), karst feature inventory, and the Ohio water well log database (logs inside the ZIP boundary) · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data

Aquifer

85% or more

100% sensitive geologic settingkarst-prone bedrock, thin drift at the center · 4 verified sinkholes · 100% wellhead protection

Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings (geology/Geology layer 0) intersected with ZCTA polygons; ODNR karst geology at the ZIP center (layer 7, point query) and karst and spring points (layer 5); Ohio EPA source water protection areas… · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey

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Aquifer exposure

100%of this ZIP is a sensitive geologic setting, where thin or sandy cover leaves the drinking water aquifer open to what soaks in from the surface
Karst
the population center sits on Silurian-Devonian limestone and dolomite known to form karst, under less than 20 ft of drift; 4 field-verified and 3 probable sinkholes inside the ZIP; nearest verified sinkhole 0.2 mi from the center
Wellhead protection
100% of the ZIP lies inside Ohio EPA source water protection areas for 2 public water systems; the largest, Bubbarock Meat Co, is rated high susceptibility in a karst setting
Vulnerability index
DRASTIC 185 (ODNR; higher means a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer more easily)

Sensitive settings are outwash plains, buried valleys, karst and shallow bedrock, mapped statewide by Ohio EPA for siting decisions. Exposure is not contamination: it says how quickly a spill, a failing tank or heavy manure would reach the water table, not whether one has.

Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings and karst geology layers (geology/Geology), ODNR Geological Survey karst and spring points, Ohio EPA source water protection areas (DrinkingWater/SWAP); shares by ZIP boundary overlay, karst by a point query at the population-weighted center · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey

Sewage plants

4 to 7 quarters

City of Bellevue Water Pollution Control Facility · 3.2 mi4 of 12 quarters in violation · 2.4 MGD

Source: EPA ECHO Clean Water Act facilities, Ohio NPDES permits with a publicly owned treatment works component, plants of 0.1 MGD or more or designated major: nearest plant, design flow, significant-noncompliance status, quarters in… · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder

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Sewage treatment

3.2 mito City of Bellevue Water Pollution Control Facility, Bellevue, the nearest public sewage treatment plant; 1 within 5 miles, 3 within 10
Size
2.4 million gallons a day design flow; a major facility
Compliance
4 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; currently in violation (not significant); 1 formal enforcement action in 5 years; 15 effluent limit exceedances in 3 years

Other discharge permits: 1 facility inside this ZIP other than sewage plants holds a Clean Water Act permit (factories, water plants, quarries, package plants, storm water); 1 facility-quarters with a violation in the last three years.

Sludge source: nearest Bellevue WWTP, 4.2 mi away (a major plant); 3 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).

State water loans: no Ohio EPA revolving-fund project inside this ZIP; the nearest is ODH - Household Sewage Treatment Systems Repair/Replacement (Sandusky County Health Department, 2015, $150,000), 5.5 mi away.

Sewer planning: 100% of it is assigned to Seneca County as the designated sewage management agency under Ohio's Clean Water Act section 208 plan (generic prescriptions). The 208 plan decides who may build and extend sewers.

Stormwater: this ZIP lies outside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, so its storm drains and ditches carry runoff without a municipal stormwater permit.

Where a home's sewage actually goes depends on the sewer district, and rural homes are on septic systems the county health department permits; the nearest plant is a proxy. Violations range from paperwork to raw discharges.

Source: EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Clean Water Act NPDES facilities with a POTW component in Ohio; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Compliance data lag about a quarter.; other Clean Water Act permit holders inside the ZIP from the same service · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder

Stream health

Three quarters or more

100% of the land drains to streams failing aquatic lifePickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay · bacteria (pathogens), sediment and silt

Source: EPA ATTAINS, Ohio 2024 Integrated Report assessment units (1,545 watershed polygons) overlaid on ZCTAs in Albers equal-area with the Lake Erie units clipped out: share of land in units not supporting aquatic life, recreation, fish… · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map

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Stream health

100%of this ZIP's land drains to streams that fail Ohio's aquatic-life standard, across 1 watershed unit
Uses failing
aquatic life 100% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 100%, fish consumption not assessed here
Causes listed
bacteria (pathogens) (100%), sediment and silt (100%)
Cleanup plans
100% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget

Watersheds here: Pickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay (not supporting).

Fish advisories (Ohio EPA): Steelhead trout from Lake Erie or any of its tributaries: one meal a month (PCBs). Statewide, every other fish is one meal a week because of mercury.

Nearest stream assessment (Ohio EPA): Emerson Creek (Royer Ditch) Near Fireside @ Ron Meyers Rd. on the Royer Ditch, 3.2 mi away, draining 15 square miles: non attainment of its warmwater use; fish IBI 18 of 60 (2009); bugs rated poor; habitat QHEI 30.5 of 100. 0 within 3 miles, 23 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.

Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): no designated stream segment crosses this ZIP. Nearest specially protected stream: the West Branch Huron river (Slate run (RM 10.52) to the mouth), 8.1 mi away, a Superior High Quality Water. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.

Proposed for 2026: the nearest reach Ohio EPA proposes to add to the antidegradation tiers is the Sandusky River (Grass run (RM 96.61) to Roger Young Memorial park in Fremont (RM 16.6)), 14.1 mi away, as Outstanding State Water.

PFAS in the river (Ohio EPA large river survey): at Sandusky R. Dst Tiffin @ Abbotts Bridge, 15 mi away, the water carried 69.23 ng/L of total PFAS (PFOA 2.7, PFOS 1.6 ng/L); fish fillets held 150.34 ng/g in bluegill and 18.59 ng/g in catfish (PFOS 110 in bluegill). Drinking water limits are 4 ng/L for PFOA and PFOS; river water is not drinking water, but treatment plants that draw from it start from these numbers.

Farm chemicals (USGS estimate, 2018): farms in Seneca County used about 266 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 481 kg per square mile, 21st of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: glyphosate 114 t, metolachlor 49 t, atrazine 40 t, 2,4-D 9 t, glufosinate 9 t. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains; this county used 40 t of it.

Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 1,080 farms work 233,145 acres of Seneca County, with 59.1% of its land in cropland, 216 acres to a farm. 4,385 cattle, 59,788 hogs, 1,424 laying hens, 324 broilers; 65,707 acres of corn and 111,329 of soybeans. Sales $213 million, 19% from animals and animal products. Manure and fertilizer from farms like these carry the phosphorus and nitrogen behind Ohio's algae and nitrate problems; withheld figures protect individual farms.

A watershed unit fails when any sampled stream in it fails; ditches in flat farm country fail on habitat and nutrients, city creeks on bacteria and sediment. Ohio's own report is at epa.ohio.gov; the EPA link on each unit's report page has the sampling detail.

Source: EPA ATTAINS (Ohio EPA 2024 Integrated Report), watershed assessment units overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection; shares are of the ZIP's land area · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map

Watershed

Drains to Lake Erie

Sandusky subbasinPickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay · drains to lake erie

Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset: HUC-8 subbasins by resident share (2020 census blocks) and the HUC-12 subwatershed at each ZIP's population-weighted center with its downstream chain; USGS county water use 2015 (Dieter and others 2018) for… · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels

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Watershed

  • Sandusky100% of residentsDrains to Lake Erie

H2Ohio: nearest project Abraham Forest Riparian Restoration, inland floodplain wetland, funded 2022, completed, 11.5 mi away: This project expanded Abraham Forest by removing hardscape from the landscape. The restoration of a natural vegetative cover allows for improved filtration of s...; 0 within 5 miles, 4 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.

Road salt: nearest went to Village of Monroeville Ohio (facility, 2024-2025), 8.5 mi away; 2 in Seneca County. H2Ohio pays for brine makers, calibrated spreaders and covered salt barns so less chloride reaches streams and wells.

Lake level: Lake Erie at Marblehead, 22.3 mi from this ZIP's center, stood at 572.4 ft above sea level (IGLD 1985) in July 2026, 0.1 ft below the 1991 to 2020 average for that month; the last 12 months averaged 571.4 ft. The record monthly high was 574.7 ft in June 2019, when high water ate at bluffs and flooded marinas; the low since 1990 was 569.8 ft in January 2001 (NOAA).

The population center sits in the Pickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay subwatershed; its water runs on through Lake Erie.

In 2015 Seneca County drew about 7 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 1.9 million for public supply (34% from wells, 36,300 people served at 38 gallons a person a day at home), 3 million for industry, 0.1 million for irrigation, 0.4 million for mining; 19,300 residents drew their own well water.

EnviroAtlas, Pickerel Creek-Frontal Sandusky Bay: 100 to 200 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program; 24,013 acres of grain crops; 63 miles of streams (1.3 per square mile); water use of 196 thousand gallons a day for homes and 2 thousand for farms; 36.9 inches of rain and snow a year; 11.1 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 0.9 kg per hectare a year as manure and 62.3 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 21% of the farmland sits on drained hydric soils; potentially restorable wetlands on farmland cover 29% of the subwatershed; 2.1% of the land is paved or roofed; 15% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).

Stream permits: none of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, so stream crossings and fills here can use the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits under Ohio EPA's standing 401 certification (Ohio EPA 401 nationwide permit eligibility map).

Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (HUC-8 subbasins by resident share, HUC-12 subwatershed at the population center) · 2020 census blocks · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels

Home

The houses themselves and what they cost: who lives in them, what a typical one looks like down to the parcel record, how much new housing has gone up, and what a household pays in property tax.

Homes and income

No data

No Census data

Source: Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year by ZCTA: median home value, median gross rent, median household income, owner share, median year built; Eviction Lab tract estimates 2016 to 2018 (Gromis and others 2022), population-weighted to ZIPs; HUD fiscal… · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data

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Homes and income

The Census publishes no housing estimates for this ZIP.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area; Eviction Lab (Princeton) tract estimates 2016 to 2018, weighted to the ZIP; HUD fiscal 2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP data, tax year 2022; Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond), HOLC maps 1935 to 1940; HUD eGIS open data for subsidized housing; FDIC BankFind branch locations; NCUA credit union branch list, March 2026 · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data

House by house

No data

Parcel list only62 homes; the county's appraisal records are not in the atlas yet

Source: Residential parcels (Ohio land-use classes 500 to 599, apartments 401 to 403, farmhouses) placed in ZIPs by scripts/join_parcels.py on 2026-09-15, the houses loading on demand; county auditors' appraisal records, house by house (year… · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats

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Houses and neighborhoods

62homes in Seneca County's parcel list here
Homes
58 one-family houses, 1 two-family house, 3 manufactured homes; also 10 other residential parcels
Lot
median 0.21 acres (condominiums left out)

The atlas has only the parcel list here so far: 62 homes with address, land-use class, lot size and, where the county's upload carries one, a link to each parcel's page at the county auditor, from OGRIP's Ohio Statewide Parcels (Seneca County; upload of Aug 29, 2023). Year built, size, values and sales come from each county auditor's own appraisal records, which are being added county by county outward from Franklin County. The Seneca County Auditor's site shows each parcel's full record.

Show neighborhoods and houses

The houses load when you search, pick a filter or press the button (the pack for this part of the state, a few megabytes). Zoomed in on the map, each house of this ZIP draws as a dot that follows the search and filters.

Source: OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels, Ohio Department of Administrative Services (Seneca County, upload of Aug 29, 2023); residential parcels placed in ZIPs by the atlas; owner names are not carried · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats

Building permits

No data

Houses not surveyed; county reports 4+ unit buildings onlySeneca County building department

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025: new privately owned housing units, buildings and construction value authorized by each Ohio permit office, given to each ZIP through the jurisdiction where most of its… · Census building permits

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Building permits

The Seneca County building department reports only buildings of four or more units and commercial work to the survey (0 such units 2016 to 2025); single-family houses in its unincorporated townships are not counted here, so the zero says nothing about how many houses were built.

Survey counts are permits issued, not houses finished, and cover new residential construction only: additions, remodels, garages and commercial buildings are not in the survey. Values are the applicants' estimates. Where a city runs the building department for its township neighbours, the city's figure covers them too.

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025 (new privately owned residential units authorized), for the permit-issuing jurisdiction where most of this ZIP's residents live · Census building permits

Home prices

No data

No FHFA index for this ZIP

Source: FHFA House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted): ten-, five- and one-year changes and the level against… · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data

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Home prices

On the market (Realtor.com, August 2026): median asking price $259,900; 1 active listing, 0 new this month; listings spend a median 3 days on the market; 0% of listings have cut their price. Realtor.com flags this ZIP's figures this month as low quality (1 active listing), so the asking price is not a market median.

FHFA publishes no price index for this ZIP: too few repeat sales or refinance appraisals on conforming mortgages to measure.

Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted), latest release; Zillow Home Value Index (mid-tier, smoothed, seasonally adjusted) and Zillow Observed Rent Index by ZIP, Zillow Research · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data

School tax

25 to 30 mills

29.9 effective school millsBellevue City · about $2,096 a year on a $200,000 home

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (DTE 515), joined by IRN and weighted by each ZIP's residents in every district; school levies only; Ohio Department of Taxation The Finder rate… · Ohio tax data series · The Finder

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Local taxes

29.9 millseffective school-district millage on homes here, about $2,096 a year on a $200,000 home for schools alone, before the 10% and owner-occupancy credits
Bellevue City
29.9 effective mills (38.7 gross); $2,096 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 15.7, bonds 3.1, improvements 1.4, emergency 5.4, inside millage 4.3.
Municipal income tax
None: this is unincorporated township territory (Thompson Township).
School district income tax
Bellevue City 0.5%. Voted by the district and collected with the state income tax.
Sales tax
7.25% combined rate in Seneca County: Ohio's 5.75% plus county and transit levies.

A mill is $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, and taxable value is 35% of market value. Effective rates fall as values rise because Ohio holds most voted levies to the dollars first approved. County, municipal or township, library, park and vocational-school levies are added on the same bill and are not counted here.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (composite DTE 515); weighted by the share of this ZIP's residents in each district; The Finder rate tables for municipal, school district and sales taxes, September 2026 · Ohio tax data series · The Finder

Utilities and getting around

The companies and networks that keep a house running and a resident moving: electric, gas, phone and internet service, and the roads, transit, rail and airports around it.

Electric

Ohio Edison

Ohio EdisonInvestor-owned utility

Source: PUCO certified electric territories via ODOT plus HIFLD municipal systems (EIA-861) with ODOT corporate limits; EIA-861 reliability (outages), sales to ultimate customers (residential prices and bills), net metering and advanced meters by… · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories

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Who delivers the electricity

  • Ohio Edison investor-owned100% of residentsFirstEnergy Corp.

Ohio Edison outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 234 minutes (114 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 1.3 interruptions a year.

Ohio Edison standard service offer price, 2024: 16.18 cents per kWh, about $127 a month for the average home, for the 251,751 residential customers who have not chosen a supplier; the other 706,029 pay Ohio Edison 7.3 cents per kWh for delivery plus their supplier's price (EIA-861).

Ohio Edison solar and meters, 2024: 3,963 customers run net-metered solar (67.8 MW, 3,791 of them homes); 26% of its 1,094,550 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 8% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Energy burden: households here spend an average 4.2% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $3,233 a year against $76,450 of income); the 38% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 11.1%, and 39% of households fall in groups averaging 6% or more, the usual line for a high burden (DOE LEAD Tool, 2022 update, built from 2018 to 2022 survey data).

Source: PUCO certified territories via ODOT · HIFLD retail service territories (EIA Form 861) · 2020 census blocks · outage statistics from EIA-861 Reliability, 2024 with 2023 where a utility skipped a year (SAIDI and SAIFI, IEEE 1366) · residential prices from EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, net metering and advanced meters from the EIA-861 files of the same years · DOE LEAD Tool 2022 household energy burden by tract, apportioned into ZIPs by block population · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories

Gas

Columbia Gas of Ohio

Columbia Gas of OhioPUCO-regulated utility · 100% of homes heat with utility gas

Source: PUCO 2026 county map of gas distribution companies, HIFLD/EIA-176 territory polygons, ACS 2020-2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD

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Natural gas here

100% of the 56 homes here heat with utility gas.

Utility gas 100%Electricity 0%Propane or LP 0%Oil, wood, other 0%

Territories overlap here: Swickard Gas Company, KNG Energy, Inc. also map service in this ZIP.

Pipes under the street: Columbia Gas of Ohio reported 20,620 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 64% plastic and 6.6% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 3,271 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.

PUCO lists 4 companies operating in Seneca County: Columbia Gas of Ohio, KNG Energy, Inc., Swickard Gas Company, Village Energy Cooperative Association, Inc..

Source: PUCO gas distribution companies by county, April 2026 · federal (EIA) territory polygons, 2016 · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD

Power plants

10 to 20 miles

Fremont Energy Center · 18.5 migas, 685 MW · 4 plants within 10 miles

Source: EIA-860 power plant inventory via HIFLD (202 Ohio plants, February 2025): nearest plant, nearest plant of 100 MW or more, plants and capacity by fuel within 10 miles; USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database (June 2026) and U.S. Large-Scale Solar… · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones

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Power plants

18.5 mito Fremont Energy Center, Fremont, a 685 MW gas plant, the nearest of 100 MW or more

Nearest plant of any size: Clyde Peaking Engine, 6.8 mi (gas, 10 MW).

4 plants within 10 miles totalling 18 MW: 1 gas (10 MW), 2 solar (6 MW), 1 oil (3 MW).

Solar: Wheatsborough Solar, 125 MW AC (2025), 525 acres, 7.3 mi away; 3 utility-scale solar farms within 15 miles.

Nuclear: Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (894 MW) is 27.6 miles away, inside its 50-mile ingestion pathway zone, where crops, milk and water would be checked after an accident.

Capacity is net summer capacity in megawatts (EIA), not output; a solar farm's 200 MW runs a quarter of the hours a gas plant's would. Small peaking engines and landfill-gas units count as plants.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 860 plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025); USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database and U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database; NRC emergency planning zones around Perry and Davis-Besse (residents inside the roughly 10-mile zone counted by 2020 census block); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones

Pipelines

Half a mile to 1 mile

Nearest transmission line 0.8 miNorth Coast Gas Transmission Co (intrastate)

Source: EIA natural gas interstate and intrastate transmission pipelines via Esri's Federal User Community copy on ArcGIS Online (data last updated July 2025; 1,239 segments in and around Ohio): miles inside each ZIP by operator, distance from the… · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item

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Gas transmission pipelines

0.8 mifrom the population center to the nearest natural gas transmission line, North Coast Gas Transmission Co (intrastate)

No transmission line crosses this ZIP.

Transmission lines run at hundreds of pounds of pressure and are inspected under federal rules; the distribution mains that actually feed homes are a separate, denser network not shown here. By mileage in this EIA layer Ohio's map is dominated by Columbia Gas Transmission and East Ohio Gas's intrastate lines; Texas Eastern and the Rover and Nexus lines built for Utica shale gas are among the other large interstate systems.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural Gas Interstate and Intrastate Pipelines layer (data last updated July 2025, pulled September 2026), via the ArcGIS Online copy maintained by Esri's Federal User Community; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; lengths clipped to the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item

Phone

Frontier

Frontier NorthIncumbent telephone company

Source: PUCO Telecom map service, layer 7 ILEC Company Service Area (incumbent local exchange carriers, fetched 2026-09-08) by resident share of 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone

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Incumbent telephone company

Source: PUCO incumbent local exchange carrier service areas · 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone

Internet

Under 2% lack 100/20 service

100% can get 100/20 Mbpsfiber 67% · cable 100% · 15 locations

Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024, fixed availability by H3 hexagon (Esri Living Atlas, Ohio subset); Census ACS 2020-2024 table B28002 internet subscriptions; Ookla Open Data fixed speed tests 2025 Q2 by tile, averaged inside the… · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS

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Internet

100%of 15 homes and businesses can get 100/20 Mbps fixed service

Served, 100/20 Mbps or better 100%Underserved, 25/3 to 100/20 0%Unserved, under 25/3 0%

Fiber reaches 67% of locations, cable 100%; a year earlier 100% were served.

Of 56 households, 13% subscribe to cable, fiber or DSL, 0% rely on a cellular plan only, and 54% have no internet at home.

Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024 (availability) · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (subscriptions) · Ookla Open Data, fixed-network speed tests by tile, 2025 Q2 (measured speeds) · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS

Cell signal

5G nearly everywhere

5G on 100% of the land4G or better 100% · AT&T 100% · T-Mobile 100% · Verizon 100%

Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection, carrier-reported 4G LTE and 5G coverage by H3 hexagon (Esri Living Atlas layer last updated 24 November 2025, June 30, 2025 filing round), fetched 2026-09-08; FCC Antenna Structure Registration… · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data

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Cell signal

100%of the land has 5G from at least one carrier; 100% has 4G LTE or better
  • AT&T4G 100% · 5G 100%
  • T-Mobile4G 100% · 5G 100%
  • Verizon4G 100% · 5G 80%

Registered towers: 0 antenna structures registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 6 within 3 miles of its center; the nearest is a 272-foot lattice tower 1.1 mi away. Only structures over 200 feet or near airports must register, so most cell sites on short poles, water towers and rooftops are not counted.

Coverage as the carriers report it to the FCC for outdoor use at a stationary spot, by land area rather than by residents; indoor signal and rural hollows can be worse.

Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection via Esri Living Atlas (layer last updated November 2025, i.e. the June 30, 2025 filing round), carrier-reported outdoor coverage by hexagon, summed over the ZIP's land; FCC Antenna Structure Registration database, September 2026; Ookla open data mobile tiles, 2026 Q2 · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data

EV chargers

2 to 5 miles

Fast charger 2.7 mi: 110 Southwest St.0 public stations in the ZIP (0 Level 2, 0 DC fast ports) · 1 within 5 miles of its center

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center station list as of May 29, 2026 (USDOT BTS copy: 2,136 Ohio electric stations, of which the 1,850 public and open are used, NREL restricted-access records such as dealer-service and hotel-guest chargers… · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)

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EV charging

2.7 mito the nearest public DC fast charger, 110 Southwest St. in Bellevue (EV Connect, 4 fast ports)

No public station inside this ZIP; the nearest of any kind is 110 Southwest St., 2.7 mi. 1 station within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 1 with DC fast charging.

Level 2 adds roughly 20 to 30 miles of range an hour; DC fast charging fills most cars in under an hour. Listings are operator-reported and lag new openings and closures.

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center via the U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public, open electric stations, the posts at one site merged, restricted-access sites excluded), and chargers in neighbouring states near the border; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; station list as of May 29, 2026 · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)

Transit

No transit stop within half a mile of anyone

0% within half a mile of a stop0 stops in the ZIP

Source: USDOT BTS National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds: share of residents… · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed

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Public transit

0%of residents live within half a mile of a bus or rail stop

0 stops inside this ZIP; the nearest stop is 14 mi from the population center.

Only fixed-route systems that publish a GTFS feed appear; dial-a-ride and demand-response services do not, and a handful of small fixed-route systems publish no feed at all. The nearest stop may be across the state line, and the out-of-state set may be incomplete. Half a mile is roughly a ten-minute walk.

Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds; share of 2020 census block population within half a mile of a stop · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed

Walkability

Least walkable (1 to 5.75)

Walkability 4.0 of 201 intersections per square mile · 0% near transit

Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by block group, population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census block points · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS

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Walkability

4.0of 20 on the EPA's National Walkability Index, least walkable (the average Ohioan's ZIP scores 8.4)
Street grid
1 intersections per square mile, long blocks and country roads
Transit
no stop within three-quarters of a mile in the EPA's 2020 transit file
Mix of uses
employment mix 0.42 and mix of homes and job types 0.56 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied
Car-free households
0.0% of households have no vehicle (the EPA's own figure, ACS 2014 to 2018)

The index scores every block group on intersection density, distance to transit and how mixed its jobs and homes are, then ranks them against the whole country. It measures the street pattern, not sidewalks, safety or hills.

Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by census block group, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks; car-free households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 table B25044 (the Homes card), or, where that is missing, the Smart Location Database's own 2014 to 2018 share weighted by households · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS

Rail crossings

1 to 3 crossings

1 public crossing1 gated · up to 26 trains a day · Norfolk Southern

Source: FRA Grade Crossing Inventory (current records, Ohio): open at-grade crossings inside each ZIP, gates, trains a day at the busiest, timetable speed, railroads; nearest crossing to the population-weighted center; FRA highway-rail grade… · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data

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Rail crossings

1open public at-grade rail crossing inside this ZIP; nearest crossing 0.2 mi from the population center (Norfolk Southern)

1 with gates; railroads: Norfolk Southern (1). Busiest crossing: 26 trains a day reported; fastest line 60 mph.

Seneca County has logged 20 rail accidents since 2010, 14 of them derailments, 2 hazmat cars releasing (FRA Form 54). Yard mishaps at walking speed dominate; main-line derailments are the rare, dangerous ones.

Train counts and speeds are the railroad's last inventory update. Crossings with only crossbucks rely on the driver; Ohio has averaged about 77 crossing collisions a year from 2010 to 2025 (FRA Form 57), between 64 and 87 in a year.

Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Grade Crossing Inventory (Form 71, current records); crossings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary, closed crossings excluded; nearest crossing measured from the population-weighted center. Collisions are FRA Form 57 crossing incidents since 2010, placed by crossing id through the inventory's coordinates; train accidents are FRA Form 54 rail equipment accidents since 2010, placed by their own reported coordinates, counted one per incident rather than one per report (county totals from the same file). All three pulled from data.transportation.gov, September 2026 · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data

Bridges

No data

No bridges inside this ZIP

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025 (26,713 Ohio structures): bridges inside each ZIP, poor-condition ratings, ages, traffic · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)

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Bridges

No inventoried bridge sits inside this ZIP.

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory 2025 (Ohio file); structures whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary; condition from NBI items 58, 59, 60 and 62 (deck, superstructure, substructure, culvert) · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)

Traffic

Under 5,000 vehicles a day

254 vehicles a day on county road 29256 vehicle-miles a day inside the ZIP

Source: ODOT traffic count segments (2025 annual average daily traffic by road segment, ODOT Transportation Information Mapping System): segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024… · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS

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Traffic

254vehicles a day on county road 29, the busiest counted road segment inside this ZIP (2025)
Driving
about 256 vehicle-miles a day on the 1 counted segments inside the ZIP; the typical segment carries 254 vehicles
Busiest local road
county road 29, 254 vehicles a day

Annual average daily traffic is both directions combined, averaged over the year. County, township and city roads are labelled by their route number, which ODOT uses instead of the street name. Most city streets have no count, so the busiest local road is the busiest counted one. Interchange ramps are left out of the busiest-road pick; a ZIP with nothing but ramps shows one labelled ramp and its ODOT number.

Road deaths: no fatal crash was recorded inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (NHTSA FARS).

Source: ODOT traffic count segments, 2025 annual average daily traffic (ODOT TIMS); segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024, crashes placed by their coordinates · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS

Airports and Amtrak

50 to 60 miles

CLE · 53.5 miCleveland-Hopkins International · Amtrak at Sandusky 16 mi

Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS: nearest airport with scheduled airline service (Part 139 class I), nearest public-use airport, nearest Amtrak station, including out-of-state ones near the border · BTS transportation atlas

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Airports and trains

53.5 mito Cleveland-Hopkins International (CLE), Cleveland, the nearest airport with scheduled airline flights
Nearest airfield
Bandit Field Airdrome (5D9), Clyde, 5.2 mi, public use
Amtrak
Sandusky station, 16 mi

Ohio's Amtrak stops are on the Floridian (Amtrak has temporarily combined the Capitol Limited with the Silver Star), the Lake Shore Limited and the Cardinal, all overnight trains; Cincinnati's only calls three times a week. Amtrak's Thruway bus stops, Dayton-Trotwood among them, are not counted as stations here. Airline service at Toledo and Rickenbacker is limited to a few routes; Youngstown-Warren has had no airline flights since 2018.

Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · BTS transportation atlas

Land, air and risk

The ground itself and what can go wrong on it: radon, flood risk, air quality, old mines and wells, and the parks, wetlands and open land still left.

Radon

Too few tests

Too few radon testsNo tests reported

Source: Ohio Department of Health radon test results by ZIP code since 2010 (pre-mitigation), ZIPs with five or more tests · ODH radon program

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Radon in this ZIP

No radon tests have been reported to the state for this ZIP code. EPA's advice is the same everywhere: test your home.

Source: odh.ohio.gov radon levels by ZIP code, tests since 2010, before mitigation · ODH radon program

Flood

No residents in the floodplain

0.0% of residents in the 1% floodplain0% of the land is floodplain

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, flood hazard zones, fetched 2026-09-08; OpenFEMA NFIP redacted claims for Ohio (frozen June 2026), by reported ZIP; USGS NWIS annual peak flows for the nearest active stream gauge; NOAA Atlas 14… · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges

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Flood zones

0%of residents live in a census block whose center is inside the 1% annual chance floodplain

0% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain.

Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 5.9 inches in 24 hours (2.7 in a single hour, 4.3 in six); a 2-year storm 2.4, 10-year 3.6, 25-year 4.4, 500-year 8.0 inches in 24 hours. Storm sewers, culverts and detention ponds are sized from these numbers, and a "100-year" storm has a 1% chance every year.

Nearest river gauge: Rock Creek near Republic OH, 13.7 mi away, draining 15 square miles. Record flow 558 cubic feet a second at a stage of 9.44 ft on 2017-07-13; the highest since 2016 was 558 on 2017-07-13 (USGS, 9 annual peaks, 2015 to 2025).

No federal flood insurance policy is in force in this ZIP.

Community status: Seneca County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 05/03/11.

Lenders require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in the 1% zone (zones A and AE). Block centers understate narrow floodplains in rural areas, so check the FEMA map for a specific address.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective flood insurance rate maps, levee centerlines) · 2020 census block centers · ZIP land area by polygon overlay, open water excluded; NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency at the ZIP center; USGS NWIS annual peak flows; OpenFEMA NFIP policies in force by reported ZIP as of September 2026, NFIP redacted claims and the Community Status Book · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges

Hazard risk

20 to 40

Risk score 24 · higher than about 24% of US tractsHail 85 · Winter weather 80

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, population-weighted to ZIPs · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)

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Natural hazard risk

24average risk index score of the tracts residents live in (a national percentile: higher than about 24% of US tracts)
  • Hail85
  • Winter weather80

FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $45,346 a year in buildings, crops and lives.

The index blends how often a hazard strikes, what it would cost, and how vulnerable and resilient the community is. Inland flooding (rivers and heavy rain) scores 41, tornado 55, winter weather 80.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, weighted to this ZIP by 2020 block population · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)

Climate

30 to 45 inches

33" of snow a year · 50.5°F averageJanuary low 19° · July high 83° · 40" of precipitation

Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals, annual and monthly, 261 Ohio stations; each ZIP takes the nearest station reporting each element from its population-weighted center; U.S. Drought Monitor weekly county statistics 2000 to 2026… · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

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Climate

33 inof snow a year (NOAA provisional normal, 23 years of record), measured at Norwalk WWTP, 12.8 mi away
Temperature
50.5°F average; typical January low 19°, July high 83°
Hot and cold days
15 days a year reach 90°F; 124 nights fall below freezing, 5 below 0°F; 42 days never climb above freezing
Rain and snow
40.1 inches of precipitation on 85 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 33 inches of snow on 12 days with an inch or more, snow on the ground 43 days
Degree days
6,083 heating, 827 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill

Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Seneca County has spent 56 weeks in moderate drought or worse, 11 of them severe or worse (most recently 7 weeks in 2025), and 118 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was extreme drought in 2025/10; 8% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.

Long run (NOAA, Seneca County): the average year ran 51.1 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 49.4 °F over 1901 to 1930, 1.8 °F warmer (1.7 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 54.3 °F, and 2025 came in at 51.0 °F. Precipitation averaged 38.0 inches a year lately against 36.6 a century ago, 4% more; the wettest year was 2011 with 57.7 inches, and 2025 brought 35.0. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.

Stations: Norwalk WWTP (12.8 mi, temperature and precipitation and snowfall; 23 years of snowfall record). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them; NOAA marks this snowfall normal provisional because the station record is too short or too patchy for a standard normal, and the temperature and precipitation figures here skip stations with under 10 years.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (annual/seasonal and monthly); nearest reporting station to the ZIP's population-weighted center for each element; U.S. Drought Monitor county statistics · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

Air

9 to 10

PM2.5 9.9 µg/m³ at Eastside Pump St, 44.4 miozone 71 ppb at Cooley

Source: EPA Air Quality System 2025 annual summaries: nearest PM2.5 and ozone monitors from each ZIP's population-weighted center, county AQI day counts; EPA ECHO Clean Air Act permitted sources in Ohio (air_rest_services, September 2026); EPA… · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO

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Air quality

9.9 µg/m³annual average fine particulate (PM2.5) at the nearest monitor, Eastside Pump St in Toledo, 44.4 mi away; EPA's annual standard is 9
Worst days
98th-percentile day 34.5 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)
Ozone
71 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at Cooley, 37.3 mi away (standard 70)
County AQI
Seneca County has no monitor of its own, so EPA publishes no daily index for it
Air toxics
20 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Seneca County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (15) and carbon tetrachloride (3)
Permitted sources
1 permitted air source inside this ZIP under the Clean Air Act; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Nearest major source Bunge N.A. in Bellevue, 4 mi (EPA ECHO)
Air standards
Seneca County meets every national air quality standard and carries no maintenance plan (EPA Green Book)

Ohio has 38 PM2.5 monitors, mostly in cities and near industry, so a rural ZIP borrows a reading from far away. 2025 includes Canadian wildfire smoke days. Air-toxics risk is EPA's modelled lifetime estimate for the county as a whole; EPA's national average is about 30 in a million, and formaldehyde, with the globally mixed carbon tetrachloride background and acetaldehyde, makes up most of it.

Source: EPA Air Quality System, 2025 annual summary files (monitor annual concentrations, county AQI) and the 2026 daily county AQI file; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest monitor · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO

Toxic sites

15 miles or more

Nearest NPL site 39.4 mi: Republic Steel Corp. Quarry0 toxic-release reporters · 0 Superfund program sites in the ZIP

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service: Superfund NPL and SEMS sites, Toxics Release Inventory reporters (EPA geoplatform), fetched 2026-09-08; the nearest NPL site also considers sites in PA, WV, KY, IN and MI within about 20 miles of the border… · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO

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Toxic and Superfund sites

39.4 mito the nearest Superfund NPL site, Republic Steel Corp. Quarry in Elyria, deleted from the NPL

0 facilities have reported toxic chemical releases or transfers to EPA's inventory from inside this ZIP, and 0 sites appear in the Superfund program's list (most assessed and never listed).

5 EPA-registered facilities of all kinds in this ZIP: 0 brownfield sites in the cleanup program, 0 hazardous-waste handlers, 0 with air permits, 1 with water discharge permits.

Nearest landfill: Reeds Salvage Corp, 5.4 mi from the center, construction and demolition debris landfill. Ohio EPA's list includes closed and historic dumps.

Solid waste: no licensed solid waste facility inside this ZIP; nearest Clyde Compost Facility (compost site), 7.1 mi from the center; 0 within 5 miles of the center (Ohio EPA licences, 2026). Compost sites and transfer stations are where most of a county's trash and yard waste actually goes.

Hazardous waste (EPA ECHO): no active hazardous waste handler inside this ZIP; nearest treatment, storage or disposal facility: Vickery Environmental Inc in Vickery, 10.6 mi. Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.

Underground tanks: no underground storage tanks in use, 5 closed over the years; 2 leaking-tank releases on record, all closed out (EPA UST Finder, Ohio records as of 2018-2019).

Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is Ebert’s Garage, Sandusky, 10.4 mi away (4 within 15 mi); the nearest household battery drop-off is Bellevue Ace Hardware, Bellevue, 2.9 mi away (3 within 15 mi) (Ohio EPA).

The inventory covers larger manufacturers and federal facilities that use listed chemicals; reporting means use or release, not a measured hazard to neighbours. Superfund status: on, proposed for, or deleted from the list after cleanup.

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS and NPL) sites and Toxics Release Inventory reporters, points inside the ZIP boundary; distance from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO

Toxic releases

No data

No TRI-reporting facility

Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory basic data files, Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown, 2020 for the trend); facilities placed in the ZCTA holding their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams left out of pound totals · EPA TRI data files

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Toxic releases

No facility inside this ZIP files a Toxics Release Inventory report. Only plants in listed industries with 10 or more workers that handle a listed chemical above its threshold must file, so small shops and most businesses never appear.

Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, basic data files for Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown); facilities placed by their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams are left out of the pound totals · EPA TRI data files

Dams

3 to 5

5 high-hazard dams within 10 milesNearest: Bellevue Upground Reservoir No. 4, 2.6 mi, condition poor

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams (1,376 Ohio dams, August 2026; 26 Corps levees and dikes counted with their parent dam): high-hazard dams near each ZIP's population-weighted center, with the state's condition… · National Inventory of Dams

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Dams

5high-hazard dams within 10 miles (3 within 5), among 7 dams of any class

Nearest high-hazard dam: Bellevue Upground Reservoir No. 4, 2.6 mi, condition poor (water supply, 18 ft high, 544 acre-feet, built 1919, on Miller Ditch - Offstream, local government owned).

No inventoried dam sits inside this ZIP.

"High hazard" describes what a failure would do downstream, not the dam's shape; Ohio rates more than a third of its inventoried dams in poor condition, mostly small private lake dams. Emergency action plans are required for high-hazard dams.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (August 2026 release); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Condition assessments come from Ohio's dam safety program. · National Inventory of Dams

Disasters

6 to 10

8 tornado tracks within 5 miles since 19502 rated F2/EF2+ · 16 federal declarations for Seneca County · 1 quake M2+ within 25 mi

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025 (tracks within 5 miles of each ZIP's population-weighted center), OpenFEMA disaster declarations by county since 1956, USGS earthquake catalog M2+ since 1970 within 25 miles; NOAA… · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive

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Disasters on record

8tornado tracks within 5 miles since 1950, 0 within 1 mile; 2 rated F2/EF2 or stronger, 5 since 2000

Strongest nearby: F3 on 2002-11-10, 21 mi track (1 killed, 2 injured).

16 federal declarations for Seneca County since Ohio's first in 1956 (10 major disasters): severe storm 5, snowstorm 3, flood 2. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).

1 earthquake of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970, the largest M2.4 2 km S of Kansas, Ohio in 2010.

Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Seneca County): 14 tornado warnings (2015: 1, 2017: 1, 2019: 1, 2022: 3, 2023: 1, 2024: 3, 2025: 2, 2026: 2), 220 severe thunderstorm warnings, 9 flash flood warnings, 31 flood warnings and 55 flood advisories, 6 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 32 heat warnings or advisories, 6 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 2 snow squall warnings; 827 products in all.

Mitigation grants (FEMA): 2 hazard mitigation projects in Seneca County since 2004, worth $61,187 ($45,890 federal); mostly mitigation planning. Largest: mitigation planning for , $34,520 (fiscal 2004).

93 severe weather reports for Seneca County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 64 damaging thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 3 tornadoes, 3 flash floods. Largest hail 3 in (Mar 14, 2024); strongest measured gust 66 mph (Jun 10, 2020); about $2.4 million in reported damage, the costliest being damaging thunderstorm wind on Nov 5, 2017 ($500K). Zone-wide advisories add 4 winter storms, 3 high wind, 2 extreme cold.

Tornado tracks are straight lines from touchdown to lift-off; a near miss counts, a direct hit is not distinguished. Declarations include the 2020 COVID-19 emergency for every county; the latest, declared 2 May 2024 (DR-4777), covers the 14 March 2024 tornadoes in eleven counties, Indian Lake among them.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025; OpenFEMA disaster declarations summaries; USGS earthquake catalog (M2+, 1970 to date); NOAA Storm Events database 2016 to 2026 by county. Distances from the ZIP's population-weighted center. · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive

Spills

No spill reported since 2021

0 spills reported since 2021none reported

Source: Ohio EPA emergency response spill reports (geo.epa.ohio.gov EmergResponse/Spills2_OpenData): cases with a location inside each ZIP, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response

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Spills and releases

0spills and releases reported to Ohio EPA from inside this ZIP since 2021
By year
2021: 0, 2022: 0, 2023: 0, 2024: 0, 2025: 0, 2026: 0

Anyone who spills more than a reportable quantity must call Ohio EPA within 30 minutes, so the log mixes a few gallons of diesel on a highway shoulder with real releases; the reported volume is the caller's first estimate. Every report in Ohio EPA's open-data layer carries coordinates; air-pollution complaints and calls where nothing was found are left out of this count.

Source: Ohio EPA Emergency Response spill reports (Spills2 open data), reports with coordinates inside the ZIP boundary, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response

Oil and gas wells

No oil or gas well in the ZIP

0 wells in the ZIP0 producing · 0 shale · 0 orphan · nearest 0.99 mi

Source: ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources public well inventory (242,324 well heads, fetched 2026-09-08): wells inside each ZIP by status, horizontal shale wells, injection wells, orphan-program wells · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services

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Oil and gas wells

0oil and gas wells ever permitted inside this ZIP; 1 within 1 mile of its population center (0 producing), nearest 0.99 mi, expired permit

Ohio has drilled since 1860, so most wells here are old, shallow and plugged; unplugged orphans and injection wells are the ones that matter for groundwater. Well-head points can be a few hundred feet off for the oldest records.

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, public well inventory (well-head points); counts inside the ZIP boundary and within 1 mile of the ZIP's population-weighted center · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services

Abandoned mines

No mapped underground mine

No mapped minenearest 14 mi

Source: ODNR Mines of Ohio: abandoned underground coal and industrial-mineral mines mapped before 1977 (5,116 polygons), overlaid on ZCTA land in Albers equal-area; ODNR Division of Geological Survey industrial minerals locations, 2015 (active… · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey

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Abandoned mines

0%of this ZIP's land lies above a mapped abandoned underground mine; the nearest is 14 mi away

Undermined land can subside and old workings can discharge acid mine water; ODNR's Abandoned Mine Land program funds repairs, and mine-subsidence insurance is included automatically in 26 eastern counties and offered as an option in 11 more. Maps drawn before 1977 are incomplete, so "none" means none mapped.

Quarries, pits and working mines: nearest Flat Rock (limestone, Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc., 3,901 tons sold), 0.5 mi away in Seneca County; 2 within 3 miles, 3 within 10 (ODNR Industrial Minerals Locations, 2015, which includes surface and underground coal mines).

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mines of Ohio (abandoned underground mine maps, coal and industrial minerals, pre-1977), overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey

Soils

Very limited

Milton silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesseptic very limited · well drained

Source: USDA NRCS SSURGO via Soil Data Access: the soil map unit under each ZIP's population-weighted center with its dominant component, drainage, hydric and farmland class, flooding, and the Ohio septic and basement interpretation ratings… · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation

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Soils and septic

Very limitedfor a septic leach field: the soil under this ZIP's population center, Milton, well drained
Soil
Milton silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes; Milton makes up 85% of the unit, 1% slope
Water
well drained; flooding none, ponding none
Septic
Very limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule
Basements
Very limited for dwellings with basements
Farmland
All areas are prime farmland
Elevation
807 feet above sea level at the ZIP's population center; Ohio runs from 455 feet where the Ohio River leaves the state to 1,549 feet at Campbell Hill

One point stands for the ZIP; soils change field by field, and a site evaluation is what the health department goes by. "Very limited" means the standard design will not work, not that nothing will.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, SSURGO soil survey via Soil Data Access; the map unit at the ZIP's population-weighted center and its dominant component's interpretations; Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model (via Open-Meteo) at that center · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation

Parks

Under 0.5% of the land

0% public land · 0 acresEast Harbor State Park 20.7 mi

Source: USGS Protected Areas Database 4.1 (Ohio state package, flattened combined layer, open-access fee, designation and easement polygons plus the six ODNR state parks PAD-US codes closed by default: Buckeye Lake, Forked Run, Hueston Woods, Lake… · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services

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Parks and public land

0%of this ZIP's 109 acres is park, forest, wildlife area or preserve open to the public: under 1 acre in 0 areas

Nearest state park: East Harbor State Park, 20.7 mi.

Trails: no built named trail crosses this ZIP; nearest is the Buckeye Trail, 4.2 mi from the ZIP's center (ODNR statewide trails inventory).

Open access as reported by each owner; local inventories vary, so a golf course or school field can be listed and a new park missed.

State lands nearby (ODNR facility layers): nearest boat ramp: Harbor Haven at East Harbor State Park, 20.7 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Fishing Access at East Fork State Park, 22.1 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at Delaware State Park, 58.5 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Camp Area C at East Harbor State Park, 21.3 mi (0 within 5 miles).

Lake Erie and tributary access: nearest river access site Marsh Park on West Branch Huron River (Village of Monroeville), 8.6 mi away; 0 within 5 miles, 13 within 15. Nearest swimming beach: Lions Park on Sandusky Bay, 15.8 mi. (ODNR coastal access inventory)

Source: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States 4.1 (open-access fee, designation and easement polygons), overlaid on the ZIP boundary; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest ODNR state park · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services

Wetlands

Under 1% of the land

0.0% wetland · 0 acres

Source: USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, Ohio geodatabase (imagery mostly 2004 to 2007, Lake Erie basin 2021), freshwater wetlands and ponds clipped to each ZIP (lakes and rivers excluded); Ohio EPA potential high-quality vernal pools… · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services

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Wetlands

0.0%of this ZIP's 108 acres of land is mapped wetland or pond: 0 acres in 0 polygons

High-quality wetlands: nearest is Milan WA (Ohio DNR), 55 acres, 12 mi away; 0 within 10 miles.

Mitigation sites: nearest Castalia Quarry, 11 mi away (a mitigation bank); 0 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.

Assessed wetland: nearest Nasa #8, a mixed emergent marsh, 12.7 mi away: ORAM 66 of 100 (category 3) (surveyed 2003); 0 within 10 miles. Category 3 wetlands are the state's best and hardest to fill; category 1 are degraded.

Mapped from aerial photography, mostly 2004 to 2007 (the Lake Erie watersheds were re-mapped from 2021 imagery, a few areas date from 1976 to 2005 or 2014 to 2023), so small and seasonal wetlands are undercounted and ponds dug or filled since then are missing; a site delineation decides whether a lot is jurisdictional. Emergent means marsh, forested and shrub means swamp.

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory (Ohio geodatabase), freshwater wetland and pond polygons clipped to the ZIP boundary; lakes and river channels excluded, imagery mostly 2004 to 2007 (Lake Erie basin 2021) · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services

Land cover

40% to 75%

57% developed · 2% tree canopycropland 40% · pasture 3%

Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the MRLC consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, pulled as WCS tiles from mrlc.gov and summarised over each ZCTA boundary; USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2025… · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation

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Land cover

57%of this ZIP is developed land in the 2021 National Land Cover Database; 2% is under tree canopy
Developed
57%: 1% high intensity (downtown blocks, big-box lots), 16% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 21% low (houses on larger lots), 18% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)
Farmland
43%: 40% row crops, 3.1% pasture and hay
Forest
0.0%
Water and wetland
0.0% open water, 0.0% wetland
Paved and roofed
20% of the ZIP's surface is impervious; rain that lands there runs straight to a storm drain or stream instead of soaking in
Tree canopy
2% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy
Area
0.2 square miles of land
Before settlement
the land surveys of the early 1800s mapped this ZIP as 100% oak woodland; 100% prairie, savanna or oak openings (ODNR pre-settlement vegetation mapping)

Land cover is classified from Landsat imagery at 30 metre pixels, so a house on a wooded lot can read as forest and a farm lane as open space. Stream health starts to slip once about 10% of a watershed is impervious, and is usually poor above 25%.

Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, summarised over the ZIP boundary · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation

People and health

Who lives here and how well: education, jobs, health and life expectancy, and how far the nearest hospital, police station or grocery store sits.

People

Under 15% with a bachelor's degree

0.8% bachelor's or higher94.2% white · 5.8% Black · 0% Hispanic · 0% Asian · 0% foreign-born

Source: Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year by ZCTA: educational attainment (B15003), race and Hispanic origin (B03002), nativity (B05002), veterans (B21001); IRS Statistics of Income county migration flows 2022 to 2023 for the county; Census Bureau… · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations

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People

0.8%of adults 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher (131 adults)
Education
0.8% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 0.8% a graduate degree; 92.4% stopped at high school or earlier
Ages
0% under 18, 5.1% 65 or older
Race and origin
94.2% white, 5.8% Black, 0% Hispanic or Latino, 0% Asian, 0% other or two or more races
Born abroad
0% of residents
Veterans
5.8% of adults
Households
1.8 people per household on average; 46% of households are one person living alone, 0% married couples
Who lives here
0% of households include children, 0% someone 65 or over and 0.0% are a senior living alone; of people 15 and over, 5% are married, 59% never married, 0% divorced and 36% widowed
Poverty
73.5% of residents live below the poverty line; the Gini index of income inequality is 0.16 (0 would mean every household earns the same, 1 that one household earns everything). County-wide, the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate is 13.0% (15.6% of children) with a median household income of $65,260 (SAIPE)
Ancestry
most often reported: German 53%, American 6%
Movers
19.6% of residents lived somewhere else a year earlier
Group quarters
37 of the 186 people counted here in 2020 (20%) lived in group quarters: 36 in nursing facilities, 1 in other group housing such as shelters, group homes and worker dormitories (2020 Census)
Moving
2,215 people moved into Seneca County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 1,960 moved out (net +255, 42,931 stayed put); most arrivals came from Hancock, OH (409), Sandusky, OH (365), Wood, OH (182); most leavers went to Hancock, OH (373), Sandusky, OH (245), Wood, OH (201) (IRS)
Metro or rural
USDA rural-urban continuum code 4 of 9 for Seneca County: nonmetro - urban population of 20,000 or more, adjacent to a metro area
Nonprofits
3 tax-exempt organizations registered to addresses in this ZIP, 3 of them reporting $1 million or more in income; 100% are 501(c)(3) charities; largest: Flat Rock Care Center ($6 million), Flat Rock Community Services Inc ($3 million), Flat Rock Childrens Home Of The United Methodist Church ($2 million) (IRS)
County growth
Seneca County went from 55,080 people in April 2020 to 54,522 in July 2025 (-1.0%): 2,906 births, 3,462 deaths and a net +12 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 131 left for elsewhere in the U.S. and 45 arrived from abroad (Census estimates)
Since 1900
First counted in 1830 with 5,159 people and 27,104 by 1850, Seneca County counted 41,163 people in 1900, 52,978 in 1950, 60,696 in 1970, 58,663 in 2000 and 55,080 in 2020; it peaked at 61,901 in 1980 (1.3 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)

Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as a micropolitan fringe with light commuting to the town (rural-urban commuting area code 6 of 10, 2020 edition).

Race shares follow the Census categories, with Hispanic origin counted separately from race. Five-year averages centered on 2022. Moves count people on tax returns whose address changed county, so students and the very poor are undercounted.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (tables B15003, B03002, B05002, B21001, B01001, B25010, B11001, B17001, B19083, B04006, B07003, C16002, B05006, B11005, B11007, B12001); county population estimates, vintage 2025; IRS exempt organization master file; USDA rural-urban continuum codes 2023; USDA ERS rural-urban commuting area codes 2020; 2020 Census PL 94-171 redistricting file, group quarters (table P5); IRS Statistics of Income county migration, returns filed in 2022 and 2023; Census SAIPE 2024 county poverty and median income; decennial county counts from the Census Bureau report Population of States and Counties of the United States 1790 to 1990 · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations

Jobs

0.25 to 0.6

50 jobs · 91 employed residentsHealth care and social assistance leads · residents mostly work in Tiffin (44883)

Source: Census LEHD LODES 8, 2023, all jobs: workplace and residence counts by census block summed into ZCTAs (workplace-only blocks by block-group or tract majority), origin-destination flows for where residents work; Census ZIP Code Business… · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones

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Jobs and commuting

50jobs located in this ZIP, against 91 employed residents (0.55 jobs per worker)

Largest employers by sector: Health care and social assistance 50. 50% of local jobs pay over $3,333 a month, and 54% of residents' jobs do.

Businesses: 5 establishments with 81 employees and $4 million a year in payroll in 2023; most common: health care and social assistance (4) (ZIP Business Patterns).

County labor market: Seneca County's unemployment rate was 3.5% in July 2026 (5.2% a year earlier), with 25,799 people in the labor force and 894 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $993 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 0.6% on the year) to 18,371 workers at 1,252 establishments, employment down 1.0%; the largest private sectors are manufacturing (4,246 jobs, $1,314 a week), health care and social assistance (2,258 jobs, $954 a week), retail (2,172 jobs, $659 a week). (BLS)

Working-age residents: 18.8% of people 16 and over here are in the labor force, averaged over 2020 to 2024 (Census ACS).

Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $178 million in contracts performed in Seneca County ($3,228 a resident) and $48 million in grants ($865 a resident), plus $66,000 in loan guarantees and loans and $360 million in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).

County economy: Seneca County produced $2.1 billion of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, up 4.1% since 2019); personal income came to $52,061 a person in 2024, 64th of Ohio's 88 counties and up 30% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).

County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Seneca County is a nonmetro county with a nonspecialized economy, flagged for population loss.

How they get there: 100% drive alone, 0% carpool, 0% transit, 0% walk, 0% bike, 0% work from home (ACS).

Where residents work: 0% inside this ZIP; 23% in Tiffin (44883), 11% in Bellevue (44811), 10% in Fremont (43420) (shares of the 89 residents with an Ohio workplace).

Unemployment-insurance records tie each job to a workplace and a home address; large employers sometimes report every worker at a headquarters, which inflates a few ZIPs. Self-employment, the military, the Postal Service, most farm work and a large part of federal civilian employment are missing (federal jobs come from OPM records that omit several agencies and, in practice, most of Wright-Patterson).

Source: Census Bureau LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, all jobs; populated census blocks assigned to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas by interior point, workplace-only blocks by the majority ZCTA of their block group or tract; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023; OSHA enforcement data via the Labor Department open data catalog; BLS county unemployment (LAUS) and wages (QCEW); Census ACS 2020 to 2024 labor force by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (B23025); USAspending federal awards by county, fiscal 2025; BEA county GDP and personal income · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones

Upward mobility

40th to 45th

Percentile rank 44income rank at 35 for children of low-income parents · 0.27% incarcerated in 2010

Source: Opportunity Atlas (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, Census Bureau): tract outcomes for children born 1978 to 1983, population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

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Upward mobility

44percentile rank in national household income reached in their mid-thirties by children who grew up here in families at the 25th percentile of income
Meaning
a little better than the Ohio median of 42 for low-income children
Incarceration
0.27% of those children were in jail or prison on census day 2010
Coverage
100% of the ZIP's residents live in tracts with an estimate

The rank describes people born around 1980 who were children here in the 1980s and 1990s; neighbourhoods change, so it is a record of what the place did for one generation, not a forecast. Estimates for small tracts are noisy.

Source: Opportunity Atlas tract outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, 2018; Census Bureau and IRS data for children born 1978 to 1983), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

Social vulnerability

40th to 60th

49th percentile of Ohio tractssocioeconomic 51 · household 60 · minority status 8 · housing and transport 54

Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022 by census tract (percentile ranks among Ohio tracts), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI

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Social vulnerability

49thpercentile among Ohio's census tracts on the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index (higher means more vulnerable)
Socioeconomic status
51st percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance
Household characteristics
60th: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English
Racial and ethnic minority status
8th
Housing and transportation
54th: multi-unit and mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle, group quarters

The index ranks tracts on how much help their residents would need in a disaster or disease outbreak, using American Community Survey 2018 to 2022 figures. Ranks are within Ohio; a ZIP is the average of its tracts weighted by residents.

Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022, census tracts ranked among Ohio tracts, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI

Health

16 to 20%

19.1% in fair or poor healthobesity 36.5% · diabetes 11.4% · smoking 16.8% · depression 28.5%

Source: CDC PLACES 2025 release, ZCTA model-based estimates of adult health (BRFSS 2023, ACS): fair or poor health, obesity, diabetes, smoking, depression, uninsured and more; County Health Rankings 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health… · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data

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Community health

19.1%of adults rate their own health as fair or poor
Weight and activity
obesity 36.5%, no leisure-time physical activity 29.5%
Chronic conditions
diabetes 11.4%, high blood pressure 31.5%, COPD 7.7%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 7.5%
Habits
current smoking 16.8%, binge drinking 18.6%, short sleep 36.9%
Mind
depression 28.5%, frequent mental distress 20.4%, feeling lonely 36.8%
Access
uninsured under 65 8.2%, yearly checkup 77.0%, dental visit 58.8%
Hardship
any disability 29.3%, food insecurity 14.4%
Heart and lungs
current asthma 11.7%, coronary heart disease 5.6%, stroke 3.1%, arthritis 28.6%
Keeping up
76.7% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 83.6% had a cholesterol check in 5 years
Social needs
housing insecurity 11.9%, no reliable transportation 8.0%, utility shut-off threat 8.3%, lacking emotional support 21.7%
Provider shortage
100% live in an area HRSA designates a primary care shortage area for its low-income residents (score 14 of 25); 100% live in an area HRSA designates a dental shortage area for its low-income residents (score 15 of 26); 100% live in an area HRSA designates a mental health shortage area for its low-income residents (score 16 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)
Coverage (Census)
0.0% of residents have no health insurance; 80% are on Medicaid and 19% have coverage through an employer
Disability (Census)
2.0% of residents report a disability

County (County Health Rankings 2025): Seneca County sits in health group 5 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 4 for community conditions. Premature death 9,987 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 2,745 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 562 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 2,483 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 2,994 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 85.5 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 18.4 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths 7.2 (Ohio 7.0) per 1,000 births; teen births 17.6 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 17.1 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 7.4 (Ohio 7.8) micrograms per cubic metre; at least one community water system in the county had a health-based drinking water violation in 2023. Drug overdoses: 10 deaths in the 12 months ending November 2025 (28 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending March 2021), about 18.3 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide in the 12 months ending December 2025; the county count has been suppressed (1 to 9 deaths) in every later month (CDC provisional counts).

Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Seneca County records 493.6 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 362 cases a year, with the rate stable; cancer deaths 167.6 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), falling. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 65.1 (63.6), colorectal 43.1 (38.4), female breast 120.4 (133), prostate 109 (120.8), bladder 29.7 (21.8), leukemia 17 (13).

Medicare: 13,847 people in Seneca County were on Medicare in 2025 (25% of residents): 12,204 aged 65 or over and 1,643 younger people with disabilities. 41% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 15% also had Medicaid and 87% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 12% since 2020 (CMS).

Modelled from a national telephone survey and the ZIP's demographics, so these are estimates of what residents would report, not counts of patients; small ZIPs carry wide margins.

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (BRFSS 2023 and 2022, ACS 2019-2023), model-based ZCTA estimates of crude adult prevalence; County Health Rankings 2025 and CDC provisional overdose counts for the county; HRSA shortage area designations weighted to the ZIP; Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (insurance, disability); CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment, county, 2025 · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data

Life expectancy

76 to 79

78.4 years life expectancy1 tract, 78.4

Source: CDC/NCHS U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP, deaths 2010-2015, 2010 census tracts) weighted into ZIPs by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP

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Life expectancy

78.4 yearslife expectancy at birth for residents of this ZIP, averaged over the 1 census tract with an estimate

Ohio's statewide figure for the same years was 77.6; the United States 78.7. Differences of a year or two between neighbouring ZIPs are within the estimates' error; differences of five or more are real and track income, smoking and access to care.

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP), 2010-2015, census tracts weighted by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP

Hospitals

3 to 6 miles

Bellevue Hospital · 3.8 miBellevue · 59 beds · 1 within 10 miles

Source: CMS Timely and Effective Care measure OP_18b (median emergency department time, October 2024 to September 2025); Veterans Health Administration medical facilities (HIFLD copy of the VA station list, S_STATE OH); HRSA health center service… · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

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Nearest hospital

3.8 mito Bellevue Hospital, Bellevue

59 beds · no trauma designation listed · 1 general or critical-access hospital within 10 miles, 7 within 25.

Medicare rating: ★★★★☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 127 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)

Patients' verdict: 72% would definitely recommend it, 75% rated their stay 9 or 10 out of 10 (★★★★☆ patient-experience rating, 160 surveys).

Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 14.1% (about the national rate), pneumonia 15.5% (about the national rate), July 2022 to June 2025; the patient-safety composite for serious complications (July 2022 to June 2024) is about the national value (Medicare).

Community health center: nearest FHS - BH @ Monroeville Local Schools, Monroeville, 8.2 mi away; 0 within 3 miles, 1 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.

Veterans: nearest VA site is Sandusky VA Clinic, Sandusky (primary care outpatient clinic), 15.9 mi away; 0 VA sites within 10 miles, 1 within 25.

Providers: 2 active health care providers list a practice address in this ZIP (NPPES registry, August 2026).

Dialysis: nearest Davita Sandusky Dialysis Center, Sandusky, 13.4 mi away, 8 stations, Medicare ★★★☆☆ (DaVita); 0 within 5 miles, 3 within 15.

Source: federal HIFLD hospital inventory (via FEMA) with Medicare Care Compare star ratings, emergency-service flags, median emergency department times (measure OP_18b), HCAHPS patient survey results and 30-day death rates and patient-safety composites (Complications and Deaths file; a campus with no record of its own carries its parent hospital's figures, labelled); NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active records by practice ZIP; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center (some listings lag closures and mergers); HRSA health center sites, CMS dialysis facilities (geocoded with the Census geocoder) and the VA facility list · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

Nursing homes

1 to 3 miles

BELLEVUE CARE CENTER · 1 mi5 of 5 stars · 63 beds · 2 within 5 miles

Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider file (922 Ohio homes), addresses geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (67 unmatched placed at their ZIP center); CMS penalties file (fines and payment denials since 2023, matched by name and… · CMS Care Compare data

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Nursing homes

1 mito BELLEVUE CARE CENTER, Bellevue (address placed at its ZIP center)

2 certified homes within 5 miles, 12 within 15.

Medicare rating
★★★★★ overall; inspections ★★★★★; staffing ★★☆☆☆
Beds
63 certified
Ownership
For profit, corporation
Penalties
no federal fines or payment denials since 2023 (CMS)

Stars are Medicare's Care Compare ratings; a 1-star home failed inspections or is thinly staffed, and the abuse flag means a citation for harm in the past year or two. Ratings shift every quarter.

Source: Medicare Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files (CMS), geocoded with the Census Bureau; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · CMS Care Compare data

Crime

Under 1 violent offense per 1,000

0.6 violent offenses per 1,000Seneca County Sheriff · 5.0 property per 1,000 · 12 months

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer NIBRS incident files for Ohio, 2024 (2023 file for the trend): Group A offenses counted per reporting agency, offenses against persons counted per victim, with each ZIP assigned the police department of its largest… · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service

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Crime

0.6violent offenses per 1,000 residents reported in 2024 by the Seneca County Sheriff, which polices the county's townships and the villages without a force of their own
Violent
14 offenses: 1 murder, 10 rapes, 0 robberies, 3 aggravated assaults (0.6 per 1,000 residents; Ohio 3.2)
Property
126 offenses: 15 burglaries, 105 thefts, 5 vehicle thefts (5.0 per 1,000; Ohio 16.9)
Other
47 simple assaults, 50 vandalism reports, 26 drug offenses, 9 weapons violations
Reporting
12 months of 2024 on file; 25,348 residents served
Trend
violent offenses unchanged from 2023; property down 19% from 156

Rates cover the whole agency's territory, not this ZIP alone: a city's downtown and its quiet edges share one number. Murders, rapes and assaults are counted once per victim and other offenses once per incident, as the FBI's Crime Data Explorer does; a large department's figures can still fall somewhat short of the Explorer's, which takes in later submissions, and a sheriff's population is only the unincorporated area it serves.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS incident data for Ohio, 2024 (2023 for the trend): Group A offenses per reporting agency (violent = murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault; property = burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson), murders, rapes and assaults counted once per victim; the agency is the police department of the ZIP's largest local government (city, village or township) when it has one of its own, found in the FBI's 2023 and 2024 rosters or the USGS police station inventory, otherwise the sheriff of the ZIP's county; a rate needs at least six months of 2024 on file and is annualized from fewer than 12; the Ohio figures pool the 511 police departments and sheriff's offices with all 12 months on file · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service

Police

2 to 4 miles

Bellevue Police Station · 3.2 mi0 stations within 3 miles · post office 0.1 mi

Source: USGS National Map structures: police stations (773 Ohio points: the inventory's 731 less 3 closed or duplicate records, with 4 wrong names corrected, plus 45 departments and sheriff's offices it lacks, placed from OpenStreetMap or the… · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

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Police and post office

3.2 mito the nearest police station, Bellevue Police Station, Bellevue

0 stations within 3 miles, 2 within 8.

Nearest post office: Flat Rock Post Office, 0.1 mi; 1 inside this ZIP.

Townships without their own department are policed by the county sheriff, whose office may be at the county seat; the state highway patrol covers the roads. The inventory lists stations, not patrol zones. It also misses some departments and still lists some that have closed; the atlas adds the departments that reported at least six months of 2024 crimes to the FBI but had no station in it, and drops the closed and duplicate records it found.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (police stations, post offices), with closed and duplicate records dropped, wrong names corrected and departments it lacks added from OpenStreetMap and the Census Bureau geocoder (September 2026); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

Fire and EMS

2 to 3 miles

Bellevue Fire Department · 2.8 mi1 station within 3 miles, 3 within 8

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022): 1,772 Ohio stations after removing duplicate records and checking Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations against the cities'… · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations

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Fire and EMS

2.8 mito the nearest fire or EMS station, Bellevue Fire Department, Bellevue

1 station within 3 miles, 3 within 8.

No station sits inside this ZIP's boundary.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations checked against the cities' station lists, September 2026. Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania stations near the line are included; Kentucky and West Virginia stations across the Ohio River are not. Straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Stations open or close without the inventory always catching up. · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations

Libraries

2 to 4 miles

Bellevue Public Library · 2.8 mi1 within 3 miles, 2 within 8

Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 outlet and system files (720 open Ohio central libraries and branches of 251 systems, plus 62 bookmobiles); straight-line miles from each ZIP's population-weighted center; IMLS Museum Data Files 2018… · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files

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Public library

2.8 mito Bellevue Public Library, in Bellevue

1 library within 3 miles, 2 within 8.

Open
about 60 hours a week
Building
17,260 square feet
Bellevue Public Library
1 building, serves 13K people, 3.6 visits per resident a year, 155K items lent, 742 programs, $1.2M annual income

Museums: nearest Mad River Railroad Museum, Bellevue, 2.7 mi away; 4 within 5 miles, 15 within 15 (IMLS 2018 directory: museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos).

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey fiscal 2024 (outlet and system files) and Museum Data Files 2018 (museums); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files

Groceries

No residents in a flagged tract

No residents in a low-income, low-access tract99% over 1 mile from a supermarket

Source: USDA Food Access Research Atlas 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 tracts, ERS's name for the file since July 2026) weighted by 2020 block population: distance to the nearest supermarket and low-income low-access flags; Census ACS… · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS

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Grocery access

0%of residents live in a census tract USDA flags as low-income and low-access to a supermarket (1 mile in town, 10 miles in the country)
Distance
100% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 99% more than 1 mile, 5% more than 10 miles
Without a car
0% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access
Poverty
2.4% of residents below the poverty line
SNAP stores
no supermarket or grocery store inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 0 convenience stores; nearest supermarket or grocery store Hogue's IGA (supermarket), 1.9 mi from the ZIP's center; 2 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)
Setting
0% of residents in urban tracts, across 1 tract

A "supermarket" here is a large grocery store, supercenter or club; dollar stores and corner groceries do not count, and stores that opened since 2019 are missing from the distance figures; the SNAP store list is current. Rural distance flags mean a long drive, not necessarily hardship.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Access Research Atlas: 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 census tracts, 2019 supermarket list; ERS's name for this file since July 2026), tract values weighted into ZIPs by 2020 census block population; SNAP store counts from USDA Food and Nutrition Service retailer locations, 2026; SNAP and no-vehicle households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS

History, schools and government

How the place began, who governs it now, and the schools that serve it, from the district boundary to its state report card.

Local history

No data

history not researched yet

Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality… · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)

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History

The history of this area has not been researched yet; the work runs county by county outward from Franklin County.

Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality and township, loaded on demand; Native American history per county and statewide from the same sources and the nations' own histories · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)

Historic places

No listed place in the ZIP

0 listed historic placesnearest: Henny Barn, 0.5 mi

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file (3,286 points for 3,232 of Ohio's roughly 4,200 listings; listings without a point are not counted, and a listing with several points is counted once); listings inside… · National Register data · USGS GNIS

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Historic places

0National Register listings inside this ZIP; 1 within 2 miles of its center, 3 within 5

Nearest listing: Henny Barn, Flat Rock, 0.5 mi (certified 1979).

Place names (USGS): 1 named community (Flat Rock). Federal maps carry these names; the communities include hamlets and crossroads that never incorporated.

Listing recognizes significance and brings review of federally funded projects; it does not restrict a private owner. Historic districts count once, at their center.

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places spatial data (point file); listings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary · National Register data · USGS GNIS

Schools

193 city school districts

Bellevue CityCity school district

Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP 2014 via ODOT) by resident share; NCES EDGE 2024-25 school buildings; NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 public-use file (schools inside the ZIP by coordinates); Census ACS 2020-2024 B14002 school… · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)

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School district

0 public schools inside this ZIP. Nearest to the population center: Bellevue High School (4 stars), 3.3 mi; 0 within a mile, 0 within 3.

Money, fiscal 2023: Bellevue City took in $30 million, 36% from the state, 51% local and 13% federal, and spent $13,850 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 1,816 students, 61% of it on instruction; capital outlay $0.9 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).

Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 12% of Bellevue City's school-age children below the poverty line (271 of 2,271 aged 5 to 17; SAIPE).

Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP, 2014 edition, via ODOT) · 2020 census blocks · public school locations from NCES EDGE, 2024-25 · enrollment and meals from the NCES Common Core of Data 2023-24 · private schools from the NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 · district finances from the Census F-33 survey, fiscal 2023 · child poverty from Census SAIPE 2024 · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)

School ratings

4 stars

4 stars overallBellevue City · performance index 85.4% of the year's maximum · 98.3% graduate in four years

Source: Ohio School Report Cards 2024-2025 (Department of Education and Workforce): district overall and component star ratings, performance index, graduation rates, spending per pupil and teacher measures, for the district holding the largest… · Ohio school report cards

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School report card

4 starsoverall on the 2024-2025 Ohio School Report Card for Bellevue City, the district where most of this ZIP's residents live (3.469 of 5 rating points)
Components
achievement 4 stars, progress 3 stars, gap closing 5 stars, early literacy 3 stars, graduation 5 stars, college and career readiness 3 stars
Achievement
performance index 85.4% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 93.8, 92 the year before)
Graduation
98.3% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 70.6% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness
Spending
$11,622 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide
Teachers
average salary $70,042, 17 years of experience, 65% with a master's degree, 6.7% in their first years of teaching
Enrollment
1,665 students in 2024-25

Three stars means the district meets state standards, five that it significantly exceeds them, one that it needs significant support. Achievement stars follow family income closely; the progress component (growth from year to year) is the fairer measure of teaching. Charter and private schools are not in the district figures.

Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024-2025 School Report Cards (district overview, achievement, expenditures per pupil and educator files), for the district where most of this ZIP's residents live · Ohio school report cards

Colleges

8 to 15 miles

Elite School of Cosmetology · 13.1 miNorwalk · 0 campuses within 10 miles

Source: NCES IPEDS: 2024 institutional directory (269 active Ohio institutions with coordinates, less the administrative units and the colleges in data/ipeds/closed.json that have closed since), 12-month enrollment 2023-24, published tuition and… · NCES IPEDS

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Colleges

13.1 mito Elite School of Cosmetology, Norwalk

Elite School of Cosmetology is a for-profit two-year college with 332 students over the 2023-24 year; 59% of a 66-student entering class graduated (three-year).

0 institutions within 10 miles, 12 within 25.

Next nearest: EHOVE Career Center (13.7 mi).

Universities, community colleges, career schools and private colleges all count; branch campuses appear only where IPEDS lists them separately. Graduation rates follow first-time full-time students for 150% of normal time.

Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 12-month enrollment 2023-24, tuition and fees 2023-24 and graduation rates for the 2017 entering cohort at four-year institutions and the 2020 cohort at two-year ones; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · NCES IPEDS

Local government

1308 townships

Thompson Township, Seneca CountyLocal government for nearly all residents

Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries by resident share of 2020 census blocks; Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements, MapServer layer 8); Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)

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Local government

Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries · 2020 census blocks · Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements map service) · Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)

Representatives

OH-5 · Bob Latta (R)Senate 26 Bill Reineke · House 88 Gary Click

Source: ODOT TIMS Boundaries US_House_District, Ohio_Senate_District and Ohio_House_District (fetched 2026-09-08) by resident share of 2020 census blocks; members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS

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Who represents this ZIP

U.S. Senate: Bernie Moreno (R), Jon Husted (R)

Source: ODOT district boundaries · members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS

Around here

Places in this ZIP

School districts

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The county

Seneca County: 13 ZIP codes, 26 cities, villages and townships, 61,093 people. The county in numbers.

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