Maplewood, Ohio
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Maplewood is an unincorporated community in northern Salem Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 45340.[1] It lies along State Route 65.
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Two farm equipment businesses were once located inside the community on Maplewood Road: Kempfer Farm Store, which moved to Jackson Center in the early 1960s, and Maplewood Implement Company, which later moved in 1978 to State Route 47 near Port Jefferson.
Maplewood is frequently mentioned in the station ID of WPTD Channel 16, Dayton's public television station as the site of its translator W63AH whose transmitting tower is located to the north on State Route 119 which rebrodcasts on Channel 63 with 140 watts.
Maplewood Elementary School was closed in the 1950s after its merger with Sidney City Schools. The building which housed the school was torn down in 1979.
The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (now Rail America-owned Indiana and Ohio Railway) runs through Maplewood.
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- WPTD Channel 16 in Dayton (operator of translator W63AH)
- Indiana and Ohio Railway
- Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad historical site
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