Iberia, Ohio

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Iberia, Ohio
UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP
43325
GNIS feature ID2628905[1]

Iberia is a

ZIP code assigned to Iberia by the United States Postal Service is 43325. The population of Iberia was 431 at the 2020 census. Iberia is northwest of Mount Gilead, the county seat
.

Geography

Iberia is located in Central Ohio at the junction of

State Route 309
and Morrow County Road 30.

History

Iberia was founded in 1827 and plated in 1832 by Frederick Meyers and Samuel Foster. The community most likely was named after the Iberian Peninsula.[4] On modern maps, the town is located at the junction of State Route 309 and Morrow County Road 30.

Iberia was once the home of Iberia College, later

Muskingum College of New Concord, Ohio
.

Another man affiliated with Iberia College was its first president, the Rev. George A. Gordon, an abolitionist and local Presbyterian minister who refused a presidential pardon granted by

Fugitive Slave Law. He died in 1868 and was buried in Iberia Cemetery. His actions were but a part of the operations of the Underground Railroad
, along which Iberia was a significant host to several "stations".

Iberia's greatest period of growth occurred at turn of the 20th Century when the community served as a farm community center. For a short period in the 1920s, the town was located along the "Marion" spur of the Lincoln Highway.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Iberia, Ohio
  2. ^ "Iberia CPD, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  3. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files – Ohio". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  4. ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 63.
  • Miller, Larry L. Ohio Place Names. Indiana University Press, 1996.
    ISBN 0-253-32932-9
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