Septic records and services in Portsmouth, Ohio

We have not yet measured septic parcels or collected septic records for Scioto County, Ohio, which covers Portsmouth. This page says what is and is not on file rather than filling the gap with an estimate.

What Portsmouth is, in the records

Portsmouth is a city in Scioto County, Ohio. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 38.753376, -82.949466 and its land area at 10.73 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the city level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Portsmouth

We have not yet collected septic documents from Scioto County, Ohio, so for a Portsmouth property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Portsmouth?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. We have not yet measured septic parcels or collected septic records for Scioto County, Ohio, which covers Portsmouth. This page says what is and is not on file rather than filling the gap with an estimate.

Which county is Portsmouth in?

Portsmouth is in Scioto County, Ohio.

Records and services around Portsmouth

Other septic questions about Portsmouth

• Septic records in Portsmouth

• Scioto County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• Ohio septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• Ohio septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Portsmouth

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Portsmouth’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 45662 (100% of the city)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Portsmouth.

• New Boston — 0.7 mi
• Rosemount — 2.0 mi
• West Portsmouth — 5.0 mi
• Sciotodale — 5.3 mi
• Wheelersburg — 5.7 mi
• Clarktown — 7.1 mi
• McDermott — 8.1 mi
• Lucasville — 8.6 mi
• Friendship — 9.0 mi
• Minford — 9.2 mi
• Franklin Furnace — 10.3 mi
• South Webster — 12.5 mi
• Stockdale — 15.0 mi
• Otway — 15.0 mi
• Hanging Rock — 17.9 mi
• Rarden — 19.6 mi
• Beaver — 20.6 mi
• Ironton — 21.1 mi
• Piketon — 21.7 mi
• Oak Hill — 22.7 mi
• Rome — 24.1 mi
• Coal Grove — 24.7 mi
• Waverly — 25.8 mi
• Jackson — 25.9 mi
• Peebles — 28.1 mi
• Centerville (Thurman) — 28.9 mi
• South Point — 30.4 mi
• Coalton — 30.7 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Scioto County, Ohio.

Open the parcel map and design tool