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Census-designated place in Ohio, United States

Flat Rock
Census-designated place
Flat RockLocation within the state of Ohio
Coordinates: 41°14′08″N 82°51′33″W / 41.23556°N 82.85917°W / 41.23556; -82.85917
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Seneca
Township	Thompson
Area
• Total	0.21 sq mi (0.55 km)
• Land	0.21 sq mi (0.55 km)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km)
Elevation	801 ft (244 m)
Population
• Total	227
• Density	1,070.75/sq mi (412.76/km)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	44828
FIPS code	39-27356
GNIS feature ID	2628891

Flat Rock is a census-designated place in northeastern Thompson Township, Seneca County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office with the ZIP code 44828. The population was 227 at the 2020 census.

History

Flat Rock was originally called Lewisville, and under the latter name was platted in 1841. A post office called Flat Rock has been in operation since 1846. The present name comes from a flat layer of rock covering an artesian aquifer.

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	227		—
U.S. Decennial Census

Place of interest

Seneca Caverns

References

"ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Flat Rock, Ohio
USPS – Cities by ZIP Code
Lang, William (1880). History of Seneca County, from the Close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880. Transcript Printing Company. p. 612.
"Seneca County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
Baughman, Abraham J. (1911). History of Seneca County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 483.
"Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Seneca County, Ohio, United States
County seat: Tiffin
Cities	Bellevue‡ Fostoria‡ Tiffin	Map of Ohio highlighting Seneca County
Villages	Attica Bettsville Bloomville Green Springs‡ New Riegel Republic
Townships	Adams Big Spring Bloom Clinton Eden Hopewell Jackson Liberty Loudon Pleasant Reed Scipio Seneca Thompson Venice
CDPs	Bascom Flat Rock Fort Seneca Kansas McCutchenville‡ Melmore Old Fort
Unincorporated communities	Adrian Alvada Amsden Angus Berwick Caroline Carrothers Cooper Cromers Fireside Frenchtown Iler Lowell Maple Grove Omar Reedtown Rehoboth Rockaway Saint Stephens Siam Springville Swander Watson West Lodi
Ghost towns	Hopewell Middleburg
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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