Salem, Ohio Salem, Ohio Salem Downtown Historic District Salem Downtown Historic District Location of Salem, OH Location of Salem in Columbiana County Location of Salem in Columbiana County Salem is a town/city in northern Columbiana County and extreme southern Mahoning County, Ohio, United States.
At the 2010 census, the city's populace was 12,303. Salem is the principal town/city of the Salem, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area, while the small portion of the town/city that extends into Mahoning County is considered part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name Salem was taken from "Jerusalem", which means "city of peace". Active in the abolitionist boss of the early- to mid-19th century, Salem acted as a core for the American Underground Railroad, with a several homes serving as "stations." The Anti-Slavery Bugle, an abolitionist newspaper, was presented in Salem beginning in 1845. A small-town group of the Progressive Friends, an association of Quakers who separated from the chief body partly so they could be freer to work for such causes as abolitionism and women's rights, was formed in Salem in 1849. The small-town school board at that time was composed entirely of abolitionists. In April 1850, Salem hosted the first Women's Rights Convention in Ohio, the third such convention in the United States.
(The first was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848; the second was the Rochester Convention two weeks later.) The Salem Convention was the first of these conventions to be organized on a state-wide basis. All of the convention's officers were women.
For a several decades, the biggest corporations positioned in Salem were American Standard, Eljer,Mullins Manufacturing, Deming Pump and Salem China.
Two sections of the town/city are designated National Register historic districts: the "Salem Downtown Historic District" (bounded by Vine Avenue, Ohio Avenue, East Pershing Street, South Ellsworth Avenue, and Sugar Tree Alley, designated 1995), and the "South Lincoln Avenue Historic District" (designated 1993), which includes a several of the town's monumental and architecturally distinct ive homes.
Other town/city properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places include: the Burchfield Homestead (home to Charles Burchfield from ages five to twenty-eight), Daniel Howell Hise House (home of small-town Quaker abolitionist and Underground Railroad station), the (Former) Salem Methodist Episcopal Church|First United Methodist Church of Salem, and the John Street House (Underground Railroad station and home to descendant of town/city founder).
Salem is positioned at 40 54 3 N 80 51 10 W (40.900885, -80.852831). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.43 square miles (16.65 km2), all land. The town/city of Salem is mostly (see map) surrounded by Perry Township.
As with other townships in Ohio, Perry Township has been subject to annexation in recent years. Residents of territory annexed to the town/city of Salem appreciate all benefits other inhabitants of the town/city appreciate, and by Ohio law are now themselves inhabitants of the town/city of Salem.
Several acres of Salem Township and Green Township were took in into the town/city limits in 2000 and 2001.
Other actions to spur economic evolution undertaken around the same time took in specific land: in 1999, 82.24 acres (332,800 m2) of Salem Township were granted police and fire protection, snow removal service, and other standard services already provided to the City of Salem by Ordinance passed by the town/city government. As of the census of 2010, there were 12,303 citizens , 5,272 homeholds, and 3,118 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.9% White, 0.7% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 1.6% from other competitions, and 1.2% from two or more competitions.
There were 5,272 homeholds of which 26.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.9% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 42.8 years.
21.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.6% were from 25 to 44; 28.3% were from 45 to 64; and 19.1% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 12,197 citizens , 5,146 homeholds, and 3,247 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 98.35% White, 0.52% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.34% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.08% from other competitions, and 0.59% from two or more competitions.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 20.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Salem is served by the Salem City School District.
Salem Junior High School 1200 E 6th Street, grades 7-8 Salem High School 1200 E 6th Street, grades 9-12 Kent State University operates a satellite campus, Kent State University at Salem, with one building in the town/city proper and another just outside of town/city limits in Salem Township.
County Maps, State of Ohio (from Ohio Department of Transportation) https://dot.state.oh.us/map1/ohiomap/images/county/, and Mahoning County map https://gis.mahoningcountyoh.gov/gis/asp.htm.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
The City of Salem, Ohio.
The City of Salem, Ohio.
"City of Massillon Annexation Answer Page".
991103 - 74, City of Salem "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Population: Ohio" (PDF).
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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