Ellsworth 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 central
Ellsworth Township, Ohio
Ellsworth Township is one of the fourteen townships of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,128 people in the township.
Geography
Located in the central part of the county, it borders the following townships:
* Jackson ...
, United States. It is part of the
Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area. It lies at the intersection of
U.S. Route 224
U.S. Route 224 (US 224) is a spur of U.S. Route 24, US 24 that runs through the states of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. It currently runs for from U.S. Route 24 in Indiana, US 24 in Huntington, Indiana, east to U.S. Route 422 ...
and
State Route 45, and has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
with the
ZIP code 44416.
History
The community has the name of
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807) was a Founding Father of the United States, Attorney at law, attorney, jurist, politician, and diplomat. Ellsworth was a framer of the United States Constitution, United States senator fr ...
, a Connecticut politician and local landowner. A variant name was Ellsworth Center.
[ A post office was established at Ellsworth in 1819. Besides the post office, Ellsworth Center had a sawmill and a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.]
References
External links
Ellsworth Township
Unincorporated communities in Mahoning County, Ohio
1819 establishments in Ohio
Populated places established in 1819
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
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