North Lima, Ohio
North Lima is an unincorporated community in central Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44452.[1] It lies at the intersection of State Routes 7 and 164.
The community is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
North Lima was laid out around 1826.[2] The name may be a transfer from Lima, New York.[3] A post office called North Lima has been in operation since 1832.[4]
Notable residents
- Charlotte Benkner, one of the oldest living persons on record, spent the last few years of her life in North Lima.
- Bob Mortimer (evangelist), an international speaker, was born in North Lima.
References
- ^ Zip Code Lookup
- ^ Butler, Joseph Green (1921). History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio. American Historical Society. p. 586.
- ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 101.
- ^ "Mahoning County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
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