| COSHOCTON COUNTY Statistics & Facts
Founded in 1802 as "Tuscarawa", but was changed to "Coshocton" in 1811 when
chartered by the Ohio legislature.
The population of Coshocton is approximately 12,282. (06/06/00) County 35,427
The approximate number of families is 5592.
The amount of land area in Coshocton is 19.371 sq. kilometers.
The amount of surface water is 0.285 sq kilometers:.
Coshocton is positioned 40.26 degrees north of the equator and 81.84 degrees west of the
prime meridian.
Coshocton is 770 feet above sea level.
The distance from Coshocton to Washington DC is 281 statute miles.
The distance to the Ohio state capital is 65 statute miles. (Statute miles are "as
the crow flies")
72 miles northeast of Columbus, 100 miles south of Cleveland, 170 miles north of
Cincinnati and 125 miles west of Pittsburgh.
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Better Known Facts
- Home of the 911 National Emergency
Number Association (NENA)
- Home of the Monticello III canal
boat, a restored one and one quarter-mile, horse drawn canal route
- Home of the Woodbury Wildlife Area,
the largest public hunting and fishing area in Ohio
- Home of Ansell Edmont, the world's
largest producer of synthetic industrial gloves
- Home of Pretty Products, the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of automotive
floor mats
- Home of the North
Appalachian Experimental Watershed and the Pomerene Forest Laboratory,
both are divisions of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC)
- Home of Roscoe Village, a restored 1830's
Ohio and Erie Canal town named one of the nation's top 20 historic restorations
- Home of the Johnson-Humrickhouse
Museum, housing collections of Americana, American Indian and Eskimo artifacts and
decorative arts
- Home of the Pomerene Fine Arts Center, committed to encouraging community involvement
in the arts, housed in an elegant 1836 Greek Revival home
- Home of Wills Creek, one of fourteen
water reservoirs in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (excellent hunting and
fishing)
Lesser Known Facts
- Home of the Super 8 Motel's Manager of the Year, Linda Eaton
- Home of the American Motor Racing Association (AMRA)
- Home of the 1998-99 National FFA Officer Emily Buxton Eastern Region
Vice-President.
- Home of the 1996 White House Christmas Tree by Joan and Kenneth
Scheetz
- Home of the 1996 International Auctioneering Champion and World Team Champion, Greg Rice
- Home of the nation's first chapter
of the March of Dimes
- Home of the highest sheep producing county in Ohio
- Home of the southern most pair of mating American Bald Eagle in Ohio
- Home of the Co-Founder of the AFL, the forerunner of the AFL/CIO, William Greene
(1870-1952)
- Home of CNN News Correspondent, Gordan Graham
- Home of the Newspaper Publisher of the Coshocton Why and Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill (1823-1899)
- Home of the former San Francisco Giant Catcher, former FOX TV Sportscaster, and
current Arizona Diamondbacks' Head Coach, Bob Brenly
- Home of the Contemporary Black Artist and Winner of the 1998 Coshoctonian Award, Vivian Williams
- Home of Senior Tour Golf Player Mike McCollough
- Home of the "Human Fly" Mad Marshall Jacobs
- Home of the Pope Gosser China Company (now defunct)
- Birthplace of the Specialty Advertising Industry
- Birthplace of the (either former or current CEO) of the Royal Vacuum Corp
- There are 37 named villages in
Coshocton County
- Home of the oldest building in Ohio built by whites. The Old Stone Fort in
Oxford Township
- Home of the smallest church in Ohio (possibly world), Royer's Chapel in Franklin
Township, built 1897-8, has seven hand-hewed pews, found off Rt. 83 near Wills Creek turnoff
- Home of the Surgeon that pioneered nerve block anesthesia and blood transfusions and
founded Cleveland Clinic George Crile (1864-1943)
- Home of the Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and President of DePauw University, Rev.
F. J. McConnell (1871-1953)
- Home of numerous Minor League Baseball Teams (during the early part of this century)
location what is now known as the Red Sea Area
- Birthplace of the "Coshocton Wheel"
a device now used worldwide for standardized water flow measurements, invented by Walter Pomerene |