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 ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...
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 has a
post office
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Nashport was founded in 1827, named for Captain Thomas Nash. A post office called Nashport has been in operation since 1834.
Nashport is the home of Eschman Meadows. Built by Tami Longaberger, former CEO of
The Longaberger Company
The Longaberger Company was an American manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other home and lifestyle products. The company opened in 1973, and its handcrafted baskets were a popular home decor item in the 1980s a ...
, Eschman Meadows is ostensibly the largest home in the state of Ohio.
Nashport was first listed as a census-designated place prior to the 2020 census.
Geography
Nashport is in northwestern Muskingum County, in the western part of Licking Township. It is bordered to the west by
Licking County
Licking County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. At the 2020 census, the population was 178,519. Its county seat is Newark. The county was formed on January 30, 1808, from portions of Fairfield County.
It ...
. Ohio State Route 146 passes through the south side of the community, leading southeast to
Zanesville
Zanesville is a city in Muskingum County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located at the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers, the city is approximately east of Columbus and had a population of 24,765 as of the 2020 cen ...
, the Muskingum
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
, and west to State Route 16 in Licking County. Newark is west of Nashport via State Routes 146 and 16. State Route 586 runs along the eastern edge of the Nashport CDP, leading north to SR 16 at Black Run.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is part of the U ...
, the Nashport CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.80%, are water. Nashport is bordered to the south by the Licking River and the inundation zone of Dillon Lake, an impoundment on the river. The Licking River is a southeast-flowing tributary of the
Muskingum River
The Muskingum River ( ; ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. An important commercial route in the 19th century, it flows generally southward through the eastern hill country of Ohio ...