Masury, Ohio

Trumbull County

39-48272

Masury is a census -designated place (CDP ) in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. According to the 2000 census the population was 2,618.

Masury is largely an area of Brookfield townships, but has its own post office and its own ZIP code. However, all other facilities, such as fire, police and school board are the same as in the rest of the Township.

Masury is statistically collected by the United States Census Bureau as a separate unit, but this has no effect on the administration, which is done by the Brookfield Township. The statistical territory covered by Masury however extends beyond the boundary of the Township Brookfield addition townships and also includes a small section in the neighboring Hubbard Township.

Geography

Masury lies to the east of Brookfield townships, which is located in the southeast of Trumbull County. A small part of the area extends over the southern boundary of the townships out into the northeastern part of the Churchill townships. Masury here forms the eastern border of Ohio to Pennsylvania.

History

Masury is named after Frederick Masury, who had founded in the southwest of Brookfield townships in 1903 an explosives factory, the Masurite Company. Masury was a chemist at DuPont, when he invented a bomb, which he considered much safer than the dynamite used at that time. He founded his company here, because the coal companies and quarries in Ohio ensured an increase in sales of its explosive. To the system was formed soon a settlement. The factory was closed in 1911 because the explosives were ammonium nitrate-based replaced by others.

On 31 May 1985, a tornado almost completely destroyed the southern industrial area of ​​Masury. The hurricane had the strength F5 on the Fujita scale, which means a speed of 400 to 500 km / h He came from the West, where he had Newton Falls, Lordstown, Niles and Hubbard affected, swept over the south of Masury and caused the greatest damage in the neighboring Wheatland, Pennsylvania, where numerous factories were destroyed. In Masury woman was killed, in total there were 88 people, 65 of them died in Pennsylvania.