Ellsworth is an unincorporated community in central Ellsworth Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44416.[1] It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 224 and State Route 45.
The community is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The community has the name of Oliver Ellsworth, a Connecticut politician and local landowner.[2] A variant name was Ellsworth Center.[3] A post office was established at Ellsworth in 1819.[4] Besides the post office, Ellsworth Center had a sawmill and a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.[5]
References
- ^ Zip Code Lookup
- ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 43.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ellsworth, Ohio
- ^ "Mahoning County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ^ Butler, Joseph Green (1921). History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio. American Historical Society. p. 584.