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Gahumbusville is in Franklin County. 

Far Northeast Columbus

Gahumbusville is just south of 161.

Gahumbusville is in the 43230 ZIP code.  Not all of the 43230 ZIP is Gahumbusville, the biggest chunk is Gahanna.

Gahumbusville is a very pretty area.  Blendon Woods is in the Gahumbusville area... or wait maybe Blendon Woods in Gahumbusany?  

If you have a  Gahanna mailing address and live in the city of Columbus in the Westerville school district you live in  Gahumbusville. 

I asked a man recently if he was the John Doe* in Bexley, Delaware, Groveport, Reynoldsburg, or Westerville. 

He said he is the John Doe who lives in Gahanna... I thought the public records had failed me... or maybe his current home is in his wife's name.  Or....

Turns out in talking with Mr. Doe  further he lives in the City of Columbus, his mailing address is Gahanna and his house is in the Westerville school district... to me he lives in Westerville.... but maybe that's because I am a REALTOR®, maybe if I was a mailman I would say Gahanna.  Or if I was his next door neighbor... and my mailing address was Gahanna OH 43230 I would say I live in Gahanna.

Neighborhoods in Gahumbusville (City of Columbus, Westerville School District and Gahanna mailing address) include:

Blendon Grove
Broadview Farms
Cherrybottom Village
Creekridge
Ravines at Blendon
Strawberry Farms
Sunbury Lakes
Wellington Glen
Woods at Blendon Estates 
Woodstream

Or homes in those neighborhoods are most likely in the City of Columbus, Westerville School District and the Gahanna ZIP code.

When looking at homes in a Central Ohio area like Gahumbusville if you want a particular school district you have to pay close attention.  In some developments in Central Ohio you can drive a few houses up the street and be in a different school district.  It has got to be confusing for people who are not from around these parts.

If you see a house listed as Westerville Schools and  you are trying to keep your kids in the Westerville School District ( or Gahanna, or Plain Local or Columbus or any school district), check the property records carefully... check the property records  before you put in the offer.  Mistakes are not common but they do happen.  Each house is in a school district.  Public records show the school district.  Where your house is located (municipality, school district ) is easily verified in this day and age.

There are homes in the 43230 ZIP code that are in the New Albany Plain Local School District..  Of course there are neighborhoods in the 43230 area code that are in the Columbus School District as well.... Lots of people in the 43230 ZIP code live in Gahanna and the Gahanna Jefferson School District of course. 

Or maybe the area where Mr. Doe lives is Columhannaville.

* Names have been changed to protect the innocent... 

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Image Credit The map is from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS (multiple listing service) the MLS mapping is provided by Microsoft.

 

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Maggie Dokic /Indialantic | 321-252-8696
Magdalena Dokic - Indialantic, FL
Selling the beach in Florida's space coast

I thought surely there's no city with a name such as that one. =)  You keep me smiling.

Mar 03, 2009 11:53 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

The city of Columbus annexed way out... so you find suburban areas which are in the city limits... miles from downtown or anything really urban feeling.  The school districts were pre-existing.  This area is probably one of the most confusing for  people but it is true in other  ZIP codes.  Sometimes the ZIP code matches the school district even though the house is in the city of Columbus.  That is easier to understand.

The real estate agent we worked with when we moved to town tried to convince us that a city of Columbus neighborhood in the Dublin ZIP code was in the city of Dublin.  Of course that was in the days of sub agency, she was working for the seller to get them the most money possible.   It infuriated me.

Mar 04, 2009 12:10 AM
Sally K. & David L. Hanson
EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI
WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

I am such a snot...ask Tom...I had to even like the name of the street we built our house on...no number streets for me...and Gahumbusville...sounds like where Horton and the Whos live...just doesn't have the ring to it ...Lucky buyer/seller who has you to counsel them and know one school district from another...one area from another...and despite the name..could make them a happy homeowner in Gahumbusville...or Whovillle...

Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers...it has warmed all our hearts and helped John heal his..

 

Mar 04, 2009 12:20 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

A forner real estate agent, who became a former lender but still is in the real estate industry in some capacity recently asked on Twitter about Gahanna (which rhymes with banana for anyone not from Ohio.) He commented  about Gahanna being named after a place in the bible. I think Gahanna is an Indian word that has to do with the creeks that run through it. It does not mean hell.   

I worked with some "crazy" people for a bit who did not want to look at homes in Gahanna because they believed it was Gehenna...

Les Wexner, a former Bexley Ohio resident (now lives in New Albany Ohio)  who started the Limited which became THE LIMITED (Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works & a gazillion other retail ventures some of which have been sold off)  developed an area north of Gahanna which was referred to as "Wexley"  linking Wexner and Bexley by  the media back in the early 90's,  the New Albany area.  

You know about Indian words Sally... Waukesha, Wauwatosa, Occonomowoc (???)  Milwaukee must be Indian for something. 

 

Mar 04, 2009 12:34 AM