Tom Corwin is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Coal Township,
Jackson County,
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
, United States. It is located southwest of
Wellston on
Ohio State Route 788, at .
Tom Corwin was settled as a
company town
A company town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schoo ...
for the Tom Corwin Coal Company, which operated multiple mines in the area and shipped the coal out by means of the nearby
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton (CH&D) Railway.
Annual Mine Report, Volume 20
', Industrial Commission of Ohio, Dept. of Inspection, Division of Mines, 1895, Pg. 138.
References
Unincorporated communities in Jackson County, Ohio
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