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Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair, six years before Ohio was granted statehood. Its boundaries were originally quite large, including all of northeastern Ohio east of the Cuyahoga River, but it was divided and redrawn several times before assuming its present-day boundaries in 1833, after the formation of neighboring Carroll County.
English: This is a locator map showing Jefferson County in Ohio. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
An 1846 engraving of downtown Steubenville, with the Jefferson County Courthouse visible on the right. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River, [10] and named the fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1] There are 25 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including two National Historic Landmarks. Another two properties were once listed but have been removed.
Location of Piney Fork, Ohio. Piney Fork is an unincorporated community in central Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, United States.1063420 [1] The stream of Piney Fork flows southeast past the community; it meets Short Creek in far western Warren Township, and Short Creek in turn meets the Ohio River at Rayland.
New Alexandria is a village in eastern Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The population was 232 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area .
East Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in northwestern Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, United States.It has a post office with the ZIP code 43925. [3] It lies along State Route 43, 16 miles (26 km) northwest of the county seat of Steubenville and 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Carrollton.
Annapolis was originally called New Salem, and under the latter name was platted in 1802. [2] A post office called New Salem was established in 1815, the name was changed to Annapolis 1823, and the post office closed in 1914. [3]