{"id":6823,"date":"2023-08-19T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:49:25","slug":"coshocton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/coshocton-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Coshocton County, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coshocton County is a county in Ohio, United States, in the east-central part of the state, about 63 miles east-northeast of Columbus. It had a population of 36,612 at the 2020 census, an estimated 36,744 by 2024, and covers 567 square miles (1,470 km2) centred near 40\u00b018\u2032N 81\u00b055\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Coshocton is the county seat and the county&rsquo;s only city; its postal code is 43812. The county holds 1 city, 5 incorporated villages and 2 census-designated places across 22 townships, and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 39031.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Coshocton County<\/h2>\n<p>Coshocton County has 25 named places on record: 1 city, 5 incorporated villages, 2 census-designated places (CDPs) and 17 unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census designated place; Unincorp. covers crossroads and hamlets with no formal boundary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Township<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Coshocton<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>Tuscarawas<\/td>\n<td>11,050<\/td>\n<td>43812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Lafayette<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>Lafayette<\/td>\n<td>2,417<\/td>\n<td>43845<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Warsaw<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>Jefferson<\/td>\n<td>624<\/td>\n<td>43844<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Canal Lewisville<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>Keene<\/td>\n<td>417<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Conesville<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>Franklin<\/td>\n<td>328<\/td>\n<td>43811<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Plainfield<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>Linton<\/td>\n<td>141<\/td>\n<td>43836<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fresno<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>White Eyes<\/td>\n<td>140<\/td>\n<td>43824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nellie<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>Jefferson<\/td>\n<td>122<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keene<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Keene<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bakersville<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Adams<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Bedford<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Bedford<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tunnel Hill<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Bedford<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blissfield<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Clark<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chili<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Crawford<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bacon<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Linton<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Guilford<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Perry<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spring Mountain<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Monroe<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Carlisle<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Pike<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newcastle<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Newcastle<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Walhonding<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Newcastle<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Moscow<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Virginia<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wakatomika<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>Washington<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hardscrabble<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Layland<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Bedford<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 2020 census scrape formerly published on this page mixed genuine hamlets with the names of<br \/>\nprivate mobile-home parks and trailer courts inside Coshocton &mdash; Chestnut Trailer Court,<br \/>\nClover Trailer Park, Dickerson MH Park and similar entries. Those are residential developments,<br \/>\nnot recognized communities, and are not carried over here. Keene Township holds both the<br \/>\nunincorporated community of Keene and part of the Canal Lewisville CDP, which straddles the<br \/>\nKeene&ndash;Tuscarawas township line.<\/p>\n<h2>Townships<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Township<\/th>\n<th>Pop. (2020)<\/th>\n<th>Main settlements<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Lafayette<\/td>\n<td>4,250<\/td>\n<td>West Lafayette<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tuscarawas<\/td>\n<td>1,759<\/td>\n<td>Most of the city of Coshocton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crawford<\/td>\n<td>1,950<\/td>\n<td>Chili<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jackson<\/td>\n<td>1,852<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keene<\/td>\n<td>1,623<\/td>\n<td>Keene, part of Canal Lewisville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oxford<\/td>\n<td>1,554<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jefferson<\/td>\n<td>1,461<\/td>\n<td>Nellie, Warsaw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Franklin<\/td>\n<td>1,165<\/td>\n<td>Conesville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White Eyes<\/td>\n<td>1,222<\/td>\n<td>Fresno<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bethlehem<\/td>\n<td>1,054<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mill Creek<\/td>\n<td>1,032<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Washington<\/td>\n<td>727<\/td>\n<td>Wakatomika<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Adams<\/td>\n<td>765<\/td>\n<td>Bakersville<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Clark<\/td>\n<td>670<\/td>\n<td>Blissfield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pike<\/td>\n<td>689<\/td>\n<td>West Carlisle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linton<\/td>\n<td>626<\/td>\n<td>Plainfield, Bacon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bedford<\/td>\n<td>604<\/td>\n<td>Tunnel Hill, West Bedford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Virginia<\/td>\n<td>563<\/td>\n<td>New Moscow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perry<\/td>\n<td>635<\/td>\n<td>New Guilford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tiverton<\/td>\n<td>492<\/td>\n<td>Tiverton Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newcastle<\/td>\n<td>442<\/td>\n<td>Walhonding, Newcastle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monroe<\/td>\n<td>427<\/td>\n<td>Spring Mountain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>43812 &mdash; Coshocton (the county&rsquo;s most populous ZIP, covers most of Tuscarawas Township)<\/li>\n<li>43845 &mdash; West Lafayette<\/li>\n<li>43844 &mdash; Warsaw<\/li>\n<li>43811 &mdash; Conesville<\/li>\n<li>43836 &mdash; Plainfield<\/li>\n<li>43824 &mdash; Fresno<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Canal Lewisville, Nellie and most of the county&rsquo;s smaller unincorporated hamlets &mdash; Keene,<br \/>\nBakersville, Chili, Walhonding and the rest &mdash; have no ZIP code of their own; mail there is<br \/>\ndelivered under the nearest post office town&rsquo;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Coshocton County sits in Ohio&rsquo;s Appalachian foothills, a belt of forested ridges and river<br \/>\nvalleys east of the flatter glaciated plains. Of its 567 square miles, 564 are land and 3.6 are<br \/>\nwater, about 0.6 percent. The Walhonding River and the Tuscarawas River meet at the city of<br \/>\nCoshocton to form the Muskingum River, which then runs south through the county toward<br \/>\nZanesville &mdash; a confluence that gave the county its name, from a Delaware-language word<br \/>\nusually translated as &ldquo;union of waters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Holmes County lies to the north, Tuscarawas County to the east, Guernsey County to the<br \/>\nsoutheast, Muskingum County to the south, Licking County to the southwest, and Knox County to<br \/>\nthe west. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/holmes-county-ohio\/\">Holmes County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/tuscarawas-county\/\">Tuscarawas County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/guernsey-county\/\">Guernsey County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/muskingum-county\/\">Muskingum County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/licking-county\/\">Licking County<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/knox-county-ohio\/\">Knox County<\/a> all border Coshocton directly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Coshocton County had a population of 36,612 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts<br \/>\nthe county near 36,744 residents, essentially flat over the past several years. Coshocton and<br \/>\nWest Lafayette are the two largest communities, together holding well over a third of the<br \/>\ncounty&rsquo;s population. Median household income runs about $55,577, well below Ohio&rsquo;s statewide<br \/>\nfigure of $67,769 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to roughly 65 people per square mile<br \/>\nof land, sparse for Ohio outside its metro counties. An Amish and Mennonite community made up<br \/>\n7.4 percent of county residents at the 2020 census, concentrated in the county&rsquo;s northern<br \/>\ntownships near the Holmes County line.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Manufacturing employs the most workers in the county, about 3,711 people, followed by retail<br \/>\ntrade at 1,979 and health care and social assistance at 1,850. For decades the AEP Conesville<br \/>\nPower Plant, on the Muskingum River east of Conesville village, was one of the county&rsquo;s largest<br \/>\nsingle employers; it operated from 1957 until it shut down in 2020 and was demolished in 2021.<br \/>\nRoscoe Village, a restored 19th-century canal town inside the city of Coshocton, anchors the<br \/>\ncounty&rsquo;s tourism economy &mdash; it holds the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum and a cluster of<br \/>\nGreek Revival buildings from the community&rsquo;s days as a wheat port on the Ohio and Erie Canal.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Ohio&rsquo;s legislature formed Coshocton County on 31 January 1810, carving it out of Muskingum<br \/>\nand Tuscarawas Counties, and the county government organized in 1811. Coshocton, laid out in<br \/>\n1802 as Tuscarawas and renamed on becoming county seat, grew as a river town at the meeting<br \/>\npoint of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The canal era reshaped the county&rsquo;s economy. The first canal boat, the Monticello, landed at<br \/>\nwhat was then the separate village of Roscoe on 21 August 1830, and the Ohio and Erie Canal made<br \/>\nRoscoe the fourth-largest wheat-shipping port on the entire waterway. The Great Flood of 1913 and<br \/>\nthe rise of the railroads ended the canal trade. Restoration of Roscoe as a heritage site began in<br \/>\n1968, after industrialist Edward E. Montgomery bought the 1840 Toll House and set out to rebuild<br \/>\nit as what he called a living museum of 19th-century canal life.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>No interstate highway crosses Coshocton County. US 36 runs through the city of Coshocton on an<br \/>\neast&ndash;west line, meeting State Route 16, State Route 83 and State Route 60 there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newark &mdash; about 30 miles southwest<\/li>\n<li>New Philadelphia &mdash; about 25 miles northeast<\/li>\n<li>Zanesville &mdash; about 25 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Mount Vernon &mdash; about 30 miles west<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Richard Downing Airport, about three miles north of downtown Coshocton, handles general<br \/>\naviation. Port Columbus International Airport, roughly 65 miles west, is the nearest major<br \/>\ncommercial airport, and the county has no Amtrak station.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Coshocton County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in Ohio&rsquo;s Appalachian foothills, about 63 miles east-northeast of Columbus, bordered<br \/>\nby Holmes, Tuscarawas, Guernsey, Muskingum, Licking and Knox counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Coshocton County?<\/strong><br \/>\n36,612 at the 2020 census, with a recent estimate near 36,744.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Coshocton County?<\/strong><br \/>\n567 square miles (1,470 km2), of which 564 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Coshocton County?<\/strong><br \/>\nCoshocton is the county seat and the county&rsquo;s only incorporated city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and villages are in Coshocton County?<\/strong><br \/>\nOne city and five incorporated villages &mdash; Coshocton, West Lafayette, Warsaw, Conesville,<br \/>\nPlainfield and Nellie &mdash; plus two census-designated places and 17 unincorporated<br \/>\ncommunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Coshocton County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n43812 for Coshocton, 43845 for West Lafayette, 43844 for Warsaw, 43811 for Conesville, 43836 for<br \/>\nPlainfield and 43824 for Fresno.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Coshocton County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nRoscoe Village, a restored Ohio and Erie Canal town inside Coshocton, and the confluence of the<br \/>\nWalhonding and Tuscarawas Rivers that forms the Muskingum River.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/ohio\/\">Towns and villages in Ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coshocton County is a county in Ohio, United States, in the east-central part of the state, about 63 miles east-northeast of Columbus. It had a population of 36,612 at the 2020 census, an estimated 36,744 by 2024, and covers 567 square miles (1,470 km2) centred near 40\u00b018\u2032N 81\u00b055\u2032W. 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