New Haven, Huron County, Ohio


New Haven is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central New Haven Township, Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 399. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44850. It lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 224 with State Routes 61 and 598.

History

New Haven was laid out and platted in 1815. Like many other towns in the Firelands region of Ohio that was settled by former residents of New England who fled the region during the American Revolutionary War, New Haven is named for the Connecticut city of the same name.
In 1833, New Haven contained three stores, two taverns, two physicians, and one tin factory.
New Haven is one of the ending points for what has come to be known as the "Old State Road" or the "Worthington-New Haven Road", an old route that connected this town and the Firelands area to Worthington and subsequently the capital city of Columbus. The Old State Road, follows present day State Route 598 south to Galion.

Geography

New Haven is in southwestern Huron County, to the west of the West Branch of the Huron River. U.S. Route 224 leads west from New Haven to Willard and east to Greenwich. State Route 61 leads north to Norwalk, the Huron county seat, and south to Plymouth, while Route 598 leads southwest to Galion. Mansfield is to the southeast via Route 61 and county roads.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the New Haven CDP has a total area of, of which, or 0.26%, are water.