Ellsworth, Ohio

Ellsworth is an unincorporated community in central Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44416.[1] It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 224 and State Route 45.

The community is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

The community has the name of Oliver Ellsworth, a Connecticut politician and local landowner.[2] A variant name was Ellsworth Center.[3] A post office was established at Ellsworth in 1819.[4] Besides the post office, Ellsworth Center had a sawmill and a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.[5]

References

  1. Zip Code Lookup
  2. Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 43.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ellsworth, Ohio
  4. "Mahoning County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  5. Butler, Joseph Green (1921). History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio. American Historical Society. p. 584.

Coordinates: 41°01′27″N 80°51′26″W / 41.02417°N 80.85722°W / 41.02417; -80.85722


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