Flat Rock, Ohio
Census-designated place in Ohio, United States
41°14′08″N 82°51′33″W / 41.23556°N 82.85917°W / 41.23556; -82.85917[1]
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(2020)
44828
Flat Rock is a census-designated place in northeastern Thompson Township, Seneca County, Ohio, United States.[2] It has a post office with the ZIP code 44828.[3] The population was 227 at the 2020 census.
History
Flat Rock was originally called Lewisville, and under the latter name was platted in 1841.[4] A post office called Flat Rock has been in operation since 1846.[5] The present name comes from a flat layer of rock covering an artesian aquifer.[6]
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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2020 | 227 | — | |
U.S. Decennial Census[7] |
Place of interest
- Seneca Caverns
References
- ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Flat Rock, Ohio
- ^ USPS – Cities by ZIP Code
- ^ Lang, William (1880). History of Seneca County, from the Close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880. Transcript Printing Company. p. 612.
- ^ "Seneca County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ Baughman, Abraham J. (1911). History of Seneca County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 483.
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
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Municipalities and communities of Seneca County, Ohio, United States
County seat: Tiffin
- Bascom
- Flat Rock
- Fort Seneca
- Kansas
- McCutchenville‡
- Melmore
- Old Fort
communities
‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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