Guilford Lake is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...
in northeastern
Hanover Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.
It surrounds the eponymous
Guilford Lake reservoir. The population was 1,188 at the
2020 census.
It is part of the
Salem micropolitan area and the
greater Youngstown–Warren area.
History
Guilford Lake was constructed as a canal feeder reservoir for the
Sandy and Beaver Canal
The Sandy and Beaver Canal was a canal and lock transportation system which ran seventy-three miles from the Ohio and Erie Canal at Bolivar, Ohio, to the Ohio River at Glasgow, Pennsylvania.
It was chartered in 1828 and completed twenty years late ...
in 1834. It took its name from Edward H. Gill, chief engineer of the canal company. When the canal era ended, local farmers breached the dam, drained the lake, and used the fertile lake bottom for farm land. In 1932, a new dam was completed and the land surrounding it was designated a state park in 1949.
The community was first listed as a CDP for the
2020 census.
References
Census-designated places in Ohio
Census-designated places in Columbiana County, Ohio
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