North Lima 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 ...

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 ...

Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio Beaver Township is one of the fourteen townships of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 6,756 people in the township. Geography Located in the southern part of the county, Beaver Township borders the following other tow ...

, United States. The population was 1,369 at the 2020 census. Located at the intersection of State Routes 7, 164, and 165, it is part of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area.

History

North Lima was laid out around 1826. The name may be a transfer from

Lima, New York Lima (, the name is a shibboleth) is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States. The population was 4,154 at the 2020 census. The town is in the northeast part of the county, south of Rochester. The village of Lima is located withi ...

. A post office called North Lima has been in operation since 1832 which bears the ZIP code of 44452. The former site of

South Range High School South Range High School is a public high school in Beaver Township, Ohio, United States, which lies just outside Canfield. The athletes are known as the South Range Raiders, which compete in the Northeast 8 Athletic Conference as a school belon ...

is located in the town center. The building is now used to host many of the town's local businesses.

Demographics

Education

Children in North Lima are served by the public South Range Local School District, which includes one elementary school, one middle school, and

Notable people

* Charlotte Benkner, one of the oldest living persons on record, spent the last few years of her life in North Lima *

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evangelist * Samuel J. Steiner, draft resister and

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historian

References

Unincorporated communities in Mahoning County, Ohio 1826 establishments in Ohio Populated places established in 1826 Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{MahoningCountyOH-geo-stub