Hammondsville, Ohio

The Post Office is on Ohio State Route 213

Hammondsville is an unincorporated community in central Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43930.^[1] It lies along State Route 213. The community is part of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Notable residents are Pap "Buckeye" Hogue and Bevo Francis.

History

Hammondsville was laid out in 1852, and named for Charles Hammond, the original owner of the town site.^[2] A post office has been in operation at Hammondsville since 1852.^[3] Hammondsville was originally a mining community, and the Hammondsville Mining and Coal Company operated there.^[4]

Education

Hammondsville is part of the Edison Local School District. Campuses serving the community include Stanton Elementary School (Preschool-Grade 8) and Edison High School (Grades 9-12).

References

↑ Zip Code Lookup
↑ Doyle, Joseph Beatty (1910). 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio and Representative Citizens. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company. p. 466.
↑ "Jefferson County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
↑ Caldwell, John Alexander (1880). History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio: And Incidentally Historical Collections Pertaining to Border Warfare and the Early Settlement of the Adjacent Portion of the Ohio Valley. Historical Publishing Company. p. 581.

Municipalities and communities of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States

County seat: Steubenville

Cities	Steubenville Toronto

Villages	Adena‡ Amsterdam Bergholz Bloomingdale Dillonvale Empire Irondale Mingo Junction Mount Pleasant New Alexandria Rayland Richmond Smithfield Stratton Tiltonsville Wintersville Yorkville‡

Townships	Brush Creek Cross Creek Island Creek Knox Mount Pleasant Ross Salem Saline Smithfield Springfield Steubenville Warren Wayne Wells

CDPs	Brilliant Pottery Addition

Unincorporated communities	Alikanna Annapolis Bradley Calumet Circle Green Connorville Costonia Deyarmonville Dunglen East Springfield Emerson Fairplay Fernwood Georges Run Gould Greentown Hammondsville Herrick Hopewell Knoxville Monroeville New Somerset Osage Piney Fork Port Homer Pravo Ramsey Reeds Mill Rush Run Unionport Warrenton Wolf Run Weems York

Ghost town	Elliotsville McConnelsville

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 40°33′27″N 80°42′25″W / 40.55750°N 80.70694°W / 40.55750; -80.70694

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