unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Knox Township, Columbiana County, Ohio
Knox Township is one of the eighteen townships of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 4,068.
Geography
Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships and cit ...
, United States. The population was 492 as of the 2020 census. It is about east of Canton and has a post office with the ZIP code 44634.
History
Settlement began at what is now Homeworth about 1840. Homeworth 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 1851 when the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad was extended to that point. Early variant names were Winchester and Sandy. A post office called Sandy was established in 1830, and the name was changed to Homeworth in 1869.
Geography
Homeworth is located in northwestern Columbiana County, in the southwestern part of Knox Township. It is located in the valley of Middle Sandy Creek near its headwaters. Its elevation is above sea level. The city of
Alliance
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is to the northwest. Salem is to the northeast, and Canton is to the west.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Homeworth CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.18%, is water.
Education
Children in Homeworth are served by the public West Branch Local School District, which includes one early learning school, one intermediate school, one middle school, and West Branch High School.
United Evangelical Church
The United Evangelical Church is a splinter group from the Evangelical Association.
History
It was formed in 1891 when some members of the Evangelical Association left to form the new church.
The schism was caused by the autocratic administration ...