Most of Friendship was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970. Below: maps from 1986 on and old-book passages.
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Friendship is a census-designated place in western Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 343. It has a post office with the ZIP code 45630. It lies along U.S. Route 52. The citizens of Friendship are served by the Nile Township Volunteer Fire Department and the Washington-Nile Local School District (Portsmouth West High School).
Its first post office opened in 1847. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 351 to 343 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Friendship in 1903
Passages that mention Friendship, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A history of Scioto County, Ohio,1903 · page 383Read the page →
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Friendship is a small settlement on Turkey Creek, a quarter of a mile above the exit of the stream from the hills. For a number of years there were cooper shops in this place, owned by Andrew Angele, John Royse and David McCall.
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history of scioto county, ohio, together with a pioneer record of southern ohio1903 · page 1170Read the page →
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J. M. Keenan in Hamden and read, studied and practiced until 1850. He visited one of his brothers in Scioto county and met Dr. J. W. Dennis, who persuaded him to locate at Friendship, Ohio. In 1851 and 1852 he took a full course of lectures at Louisville, Kentucky. In March, 1872, he obtained the degree of M.
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A history of Scioto County, Ohio,1903 · page 909Read the page →
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Henry Cole Bradford was born September 27, 1838, at Friendship, in Scioto county. His father’s name was Littleton Bradford, and his mother's maiden name was Abigail Sampson. He spent his boyhood at Friendship, and received a common school education. At the age of tewnty-one he began teaching school in Scioto county, which he continued for twenty years, seventeen years in the county and three years in the west. From 1869 to 1872, he lived in the west. In 1873, he began the occupation of a fruit grower, which he has continued ever
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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