Somerdale, Ohio

Somerdale is an unincorporated community in northeastern Fairfield Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44678.^[1] It lies along State Route 212, Conotton Creek and the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway east of Zoar.

History

A post office called Somerdale has been in operation since 1887.^[2] Somerdale was originally a mining community and the Somerdale Coal Company operated there.^[3] Peak coal production at Somerdale was around the year 1900.^[4]

References

1. ↑ Zip Code Lookup
2. ↑ "Tuscarawas County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 6 January 2016. 
3. ↑ Industrial Commission of Ohio. Dept. of Inspection. Division of Mines (1907). Annual Mine Report. p. 195. 
4. ↑ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 128. 

Municipalities and communities of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States
County seat: New Philadelphia
Cities	Dover New Philadelphia Uhrichsville
Villages	Baltic‡ Barnhill Bolivar Dennison Gnadenhutten Midvale Mineral City Newcomerstown Parral Port Washington Roswell Stone Creek Strasburg Sugarcreek Tuscarawas Zoar
Townships	Auburn Bucks Clay Dover Fairfield Franklin Goshen Jefferson Lawrence Mill Oxford Perry Rush Salem Sandy Sugar Creek Union Warren Warwick Washington Wayne York
CDPs	Dundee Sandyville
Unincorporated communities	Barrs Mills Bernice Blackband Columbia Eastport Gilmore Glasgow Goshen Hartwood Lock Seventeen Mount Tabor New Cumberland Newport Peoli Postboy Ragersville Rockford Somerdale Stillwater Wainwright West Chester Winfield Wolf Yorktown Zoarville
Ghost town	Three Legs Town
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 40°33′59″N 81°21′38″W / 40.56639°N 81.36056°W / 40.56639; -81.36056