Coshocton

History

The Lenape sympathetic to the new United States stayed near Coshocton, then called Gosch-ach-gunk. White Eyes, then leader of the Lenape people, signed the Treaty of Fort Pitt of 1778, by which the Lenape hoped to secure their safety during the War, and he promised scouts and support to the rebel colonists. In retaliation for frontier raids by hostile Lenape and British, Colonel Daniel Brodhead of the Continental Army ignored the treaty. After indiscriminately raiding and destroying the peaceful Moravian Christian Lenape settlement of Indaochaic also known as Lichtenau, he attacked and destroyed the Lenape at Coshocton in April 1781. Coshocton was originally called Tuscarawas by American colonists, after the river, and under the latter name was laid out in 1802. The young town was renamed Coshocton when it was designated county seat by the legislature in 1811.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  1,121
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  1,086
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  1,077
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,013
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  893
• Turkey Vulture

  Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  884
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  811
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  706

Most recent

• M 2.9 — 2025-05-09
  3 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio
• M 2.8 — 2025-04-29
  1 km SE of Pleasant City, Ohio
• M 3.1 — 2025-04-24
  3 km S of Pleasant City, Ohio
• M 3.1 — 2025-04-22
  3 km ESE of Buffalo, Ohio
• M 3 — 2024-03-30
  2 km SSW of Maple Ridge, Ohio
• M 2.6 — 2021-11-19
  2 km NW of Sherrodsville, Ohio