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Colton is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in northwestern Washington Township, Henry County,
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. It has a
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with the ZIP code 43510. It is located along County Road 4A, approximately four miles north of
U.S. Route 24 U.S. Route 24 or U.S. Highway 24 (US 24) is one of the original United States Numbered Highways of 1926 which runs east and west for most of its routing. It originally ran from Pontiac, Michigan, in the east to Kansas City, Misso ...
.


History

Colton was
plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1855. A post office was established at Colton in 1856, and remained in operation until 1984.


References

Unincorporated communities in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Henry County, Ohio {{HenryCountyOH-geo-stub