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Jefferson County, Ohio
County Number 41
OSP District 7 (Cambridge)
OSP Post 41 (Steubenville)
ODOT District 11 (New Philadelphia)
MARCS Zone 4
NWS Office Pittsburgh
FIPS Code 39081

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Welcome to the Jefferson County, Ohio collaboration article. This is where you, the user, may index any articles you develop for scanning related topics for your area.

General / Divisions

Jefferson County is a county in eastern Ohio. Surrounding counties are Columbiana to the north, Belmont to the south, Carroll and Harrison to the west, and Hancock, Brooke, and Ohio in West Virginia.

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From a public safety standpoint, Jefferson County is divided into Divisions 1, 2 and 3. These divisions roughly divide the northern, central and southern thirds of the county.




Public Safety Radio Communications

There are only a few agencies that routinely use standalone frequencies for daily communications. Almost all public safety traffic in the county occurs on the Jefferson County 911 Trunked Radio System.

Known frequencies aside from the 911 TRS which are in use by public safety agencies in the county are listed below.

 39.8800    39.1400      PL 110.9         Jefferson Co SO (repeater - not used often)
 39.8800   -             PL 110.9         Jefferson Co SO (simplex)
151.5050   158.4000      DCS 115          Air Evac Lifeteam
151.6025   159.9375      DCS 115          Air Evac Lifeteam
155.2200   -             PL 156.7         Ambulance Service Inc
155.1000   159.2700      PL 127.3         Saline Twp Local
155.2650   -             PL 103.5         STAT MedEvac
155.3550   -             -                EMS to Trinity West
155.4000   -             -                STAT MedEvac - patch freq into 911 system
159.9375   -             -                STAT MedEvac
159.4800   -             -                STAT MedEvac
452.5500   -             -                Fire & EMS Paging
853.4875   -             DCS 023          TRS Talkaround / TAC / Local / Direct

NOTE: Steubenville Fire Dept paging is done on TG 3440 of the 911 TRS


Jefferson County 911 Trunked Radio System

Public safety communications within Jefferson County are served primarily by the Jefferson County Public Safety TRS. Most, but not all, agencies are dispatched by Jefferson County 911. All public safety agencies within the county have a presence on the 911 System TRS. This Motorola Type II 800 Mhz trunked system is currently supporting only analog voice. For those of you who are curious, MDT data is transmitted on conventional 800 mhz frequencies and not over the trunked system - and it cannot be decoded with any programs you may find on the Internet, so don't bother.


Frequencies for this system are:

SiteNameFreqs  
001 (1) Rebanded851.162500 851.412500c 853.237500


  • The red frequencies are rotating control channels. As such you should make sure and program all four of those frequencies in your scanner, even if you are configuring your scanner for control-channel only trunking mode. The control channel rotates every 24 hours or so.


Some agencies have their own talkgroups. Agencies without their own talkgroups can be found on one of the division talkgroups.


Certain agencies including Sheriff's Office, Steubenville PD, Toronto PD, and Steubenville FD have their own dispatchers as well. Other agencies rely solely upon Jefferson County 911 Center for dispatch.


In addition to public safety agencies you will find school buses for Toronty City Schools, Buckeye Local and Indian Creek on the system.

Law Enforcement Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
6416  191  LAW EOC  EOC 
6752  1a6  JCDTF  Drug Task Force 
7984  1f3  LAW ATG  All-Talk 
8080  1f9  RESOURCE OFC  School Resource Officers 
8304  207  PURSUIT  Pursuit 

Fire/EMS Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
3216  0c9  FIRE EOC  Fire EOC 
3472  0d9  RIT  Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) 
4784  12b  Fire ATG  Fire All-Talk 
4816  12d  EMS EOC  EMS EOC 
5040  13b  MED 1  EMS to Hospital 
6384  18f  EMS ATG  EMS All-Talk 
6896  1af  AIR OPS  Air Operations 
7056  1b9  TANKER TF  Tanker Task Force 

Common Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
1616  065  COMMAND 1  Countywide command 1 
1648  067  COMMAND 2  Countywide command 2 
1680  069  COMMAND 3  Countywide command 3 
1712  06b  DISASTER 1  Countywide disaster 1 
1744  06d  DISASTER 2  Countywide disaster 2 
1776  06f  DISASTER 3  Countywide disaster 3 
1808  071  EVENT 1  Special events 1 
1840  073  EVENT 2  Special events 2 
1872  075  TRAINING 1  Countywide training 1 
1904  077  TRAINING 2  Countywide training 2 
1936  079  TRAINING 3  Countywide training 3 
3184  0c7  EVENT 3  Special events 3 

School Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description
8048  1f7  IND CRK SCH  Indian Creek Schools 
8112  1fb  TORONTO SCH  Toronto City Schools 
8208  201  BUCKEYE LOC  Buckeye Local Schools 

Station Numbers

In the county, all Police, Fire and EMS agencies have station numbers assigned to them. The station numbers appear to range from 0 to 99 with some of them not yet documented or not yet used.


(ex: Station 41 = Jefferson Co SO)


STN Agency Division
21 Adena PD Div 3
22 Adena VFD Div 3
23 Amsterdam B.R.A.S.S. EMS Div 1
24 Amsterdam PD Div 1
25 Amsterdam VFD Div 1
26 Belvedere VFD Div 2
27 Bergholz B.R.A.S.S. EMS Div 1
28 Bergholz PD Div 1
29 Bergholz VFD Div 1
31 Bloomingdale PD Div 2
32 Bloomingdale VFD Div 2
33 Brilliant VFD Div 3
34 Cross Creek Twp PD Div 2
35 Dillonvale EMS Div 3
36 Dillonvale PD Div 3
37 Dillonvale VFD Div 3
38 East Springfield VFD Div 2
39 Empire PD Div 1
41 Jefferson County SO ALL
42 Empire VFD Div 1
43 Glen Robbins VFD (no longer exists) Div 3
44 Hillndale VFD Div 2
45 Irondale VFD Div 1
46 Knoxville VFD Div 1
47 Mingo Junction FD Div 2
48 Mingo Junction PD Div 2
49 Mt Pleasant PD Div 3
51 Mt Pleasant VFD Div 3
52 New Alexandria PD Div 3
53 New Alexandria VFD Div 3
54 Pleasant Hill VFD Div 1
STN Agency Division
55 Pottery Addition VFD Div 1
56 Rayland VFD Div 3
57 Rayland PD Div 3
58 Richmond PD Div 2
59 Richmond VFD Div 2
61 Saline Twp EMS Div 1
62 Saline Twp PD Div 1
63 Smithfield EMS Div 3
64 Smithfield PD Div 3
65 Smithfield VFD Div 3
66 Ambulance Service Inc Div 2
67 Steubenville FD Div 2
68 Steubenville PD Div 2
69 Stratton PD Div 1
71 Stratton VFD Div 1
72 Tiltonsville PD Div 3
73 Tiltonsville VFD Div 3
74 Toronto EMS Div 1
75 Toronto VFD Div 1
76 Toronto PD Div 1
77 Unionport VFD Div 2
78 Wayne Twp PD Div 2
Wayne Twp EMS Div 2
79 Wells Twp PD Div 3
81 Wintersville VFD Div 2
82 Wintersville PD Div 2
83 Yorkville PD Div 3
84 Yorkville VFD Div 3
92 Hopedale VFD Div 2
93 Harrisville VFD Div 3
99 Jefferson Co 911 (JCOMM) ALL

Unit Numbers

Fire/EMS agencies as well as some Police agencies have adopted the following unit numbering for personnel/vehicles:


Unit Number = aabc (ex: 7471 = TEMS ALS Ambulance)

Radio ID (RID) = aabc , 2aabc (ex: 7401 = TEMS-JAD Chief, 27401 - TEMS-JAD Chief portable)

- where aa = the station number
- where b = equipment type
- where c is assigned by the agency


Equipment Type
0 Personnel 5 Tanker
1 Engine/Pumper 6 BLS Ambulance
2 Ladder 7 ALS Ambulance
3 Rescue 8 Cruiser/Other Vehicle
4 Brush Truck 9 Cruiser/Other Vehicle

Radio Codes and Signals

Below are Signals and Codes used over the air by Jefferson County Public Safety Agencies.


911 System

C/S Meaning C/S Meaning
10-1 ON THE AIR 10-6 OUT AT ________
10-2 ENROUTE TO THE SCENE 10-7 CLEAR FROM SCENE. IN SERVICE
10-3 ON THE SCENE 10-8 IN QUARTERS
10-4 ACKNOWLEDGE 10-9 OUT OF SERVICE
10-5 ENROUTE TO _______ 10-10 CALL THE 911 CENTER


Steubenville Police Department

C/S Meaning C/S Meaning
1 PROWLER 15 TRINITY EAST
2 ROBBERY OR B&E 16 TRINITY WEST
3 FIGHT 17 WEIRTON STEEL
4 ACCIDENT 18 MAD DOG5
5 JUVENILES 19 FIRE
6 CAR BLOCKING DRIVEWAY 20 SHOOTING
7 PARKERS 21 HIT/SKIP
8 CALL THE STATION 22 GAS
9 COME TO THE STATION 23 WHEELING STEEL
10 MAYDAY 24 DISORDERLY
11 MEET A COMPLAINANT 25 STABBING
12 MEET AN OFFICER 26 KIDNAPPING
13 DRUNK 27 ARMED ROBBERY
14 DOMESTIC 30 WARRANT OR TURN ON CAMERA


Ambulance Service Inc (ASI)

Code Meaning Code Meaning
A HEART ATTACK C FRACTURE
B HEMMORHAGE D O.B. CASE


Signal Meaning Signal Meaning
1 EMERGENCY - LIGHTS AND SIRENS 8 IN SERVICE
2 TRANSFER 9 IN SERVICE, BUT UNABLE TO RESPOND
3 DEATH CALL 10 MAYDAY
4 WRECK 11 SEND BACKUP UNIT
5 PHONE 12 SITUATION SERIOUS
6 CANCEL 30 MEAL BREAK
7 OUT OF VEHICLE

Paging Tones

Paging Tones are broadcast on 452.550.


Station Agency Tone A Tone B
21 Adena Police 617.3 410.8
22 Adena VFD 330.5 368.5
23 Amsterdam EMS (B.R.A.S.S.)
24 Amsterdam Police 524.5 669.9
25 Amsterdam VFD 330.5 433.7
26 Belvedere VFD 368.5 433.7
27 Bergholz EMS (B.R.A.S.S.) 349.0 330.5
28 Bergholz Police 433.7 349.0
29 Bergholz VFD 349.0 330.5
31 Bloomingdale Police 979.9 669.9
32 Bloomingdale VFD 349.0 389.0
33 Brilliant VFD 349.0 457.9
33S Brilliant Siren 1472.9 1513.5
34 Cross Creek Twp Police 746.8 368.5
35 Dillonvale EMS 349.0 410.8
36 Dillonvale Police 313.0 879.0
37 Dillonvale VFD 304.7 410.8
38 East Springfield VFD 457.9 389.0
39 Empire Police 330.5 410.8
41 Jefferson County Sheriff
42 Empire VFD 330.5 483.5
43 Glen Robbins VFD (no longer exists) 445.7 304.7
44 Hillndale VFD 483.5 410.8
45 Irondale VFD 433.7 483.5
46 Knoxville VFD 368.5 483.5
47 Mingo Junction FD 457.9 410.8
48 Mingo Junction Police
49 Mt Pleasant Police 979.9 879.0
51 Mt Pleasant VFD 433.7 410.8
52 New Alexandria Police 746.8 510.5
53 New Alexandria VFD 349.0 510.5
54 Pleasant Hill VFD 368.5 457.9
55 Pottery Addition VFD 368.5 510.5
56 Rayland VFD 410.8 433.7
57 Rayland Police 600.9 483.5
58 Richmond Police 496.8 600.9
59 Richmond VFD 368.5 569.1
61 Saline Twp EMS 437.7 510.5
62 Saline Twp Police 410.8 389.0
63 Smithfield EMS 410.8 539.0
64 Smithfield Police 410.8 457.9
65 Smithfield VFD 410.8 483.5
66 Ambulance Service Inc (ASI)
67 Steubenville FD
68 Steubenville Police
69 Stratton Police 634.5 832.5
71 Stratton VFD 368.5 832.5
72 Tiltonsville Police
73 Tiltonsville VFD 457.9 483.5
74 Toronto EMS 368.5 669.9
74D Toronto EMS (Duty) 368.5 524.6
75 Toronto VFD 433.7 457.9
76 Toronto Police 879.0 483.5
77 Unionport VFD 457.9 330.5
78 Wayne Twp Police 368.5 600.9
Wayne Twp EMS 707.2 903.1
79 Wells Twp Constable 788.5 457.9
81 Wintersville VFD 349.0 539.0
82 Wintersville Police
83 Yorkville Police
84 Yorkville VFD 928.0 879.0
92 Hopedale VFD
93 Harrisville VFD
99 911 Center
Division 1 510.5 510.5
Division 2 483.5 483.5
Division 3 539.0 539.0
HAZMAT Team 634.5 669.9

MedEvac Support

There are two medical helicopter transport companies providing coverage in Jefferson County. One of those is STAT MedEvac, and the other is Air Evac Lifeteam.

Medical helicopters typically communicate with the public safety personnel on the ground via frequencies chosen by that agency.

STAT MedEvac

In April 2008, STAT MedEvac opened a base at the Jefferson County Airpark. This base is staffed full time with personnel and a medical helicopter, STAT MedEvac 15.

STAT MedEvac operations in the area can be heard on 155.2650 Mhz with a PL tone of 103.5. You may also hear them on 159.4800, reportedly with a PL of 103.5. When the are working an incident with Jefferson County public safety personnel, they are typically patched into an EMS Division talkgroup the Jefferson Co 911 TRS via 155.4000 Mhz.

Air Evac Lifeteam

In October 2008, Air Evac Lifeteam opened a base at the Columbiana County Airport in East Liverpool.

AEL operations in the area can be heard on 159.9375 Mhz with a digital PL of 065. This is their East Liverpool base. You may also hear them on 151.6025 Mhz with a digital PL of 115, their Wheeling repeater. Also, you can hear them on 151.5050 with a digital PL of 115.

Ohio MARCS

In Eastern Ohio, the statewide MARCS system is mostly used by the OSP, local health departments, Tri-County ambulance and Carroll and Columbiana Co sheriffs.


MARCS Sites (within Jeff Co)

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MARCS Sites (bordering Jeff Co)

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Local MARCS Talkgroups

TGID Tag Agency
16896 POST 15 OSP Lisbon Dispatch
16912 P15TAC OSP Lisbon TAC
16960 POST 50 OSP Canfield Dispatch
16976 P50TAC OSP Canfield TAC
48000 POST 07 OSP St. Clairsville Dispatch
48016 P07TAC OSP St. Clairsville TAC
48032 POST 41 OSP Steubenville Dispatch
48048 P41TAC OSP Steubenville TAC
48064 POST 60 OSP Zanesville Dispatch
48080 P60TAC OSP Zanesville TAC
48096 POST 79 OSP New Philadelphia Dispatch
48112 P79TAC OSP New Philadelphia TAC
48128 POST 84 OSP Marietta Dispatch
48144 P84TAC OSP Marietta TAC
48160 POST 30 OSP Cambridge Dispatch / District 7 HQ
48176 P30TAC OSP Cambridge TAC
     
28544 Columbiana Co Health Dept
28560 East Liverpool Health Dept
49216 Belmont Co Health Dept
49232 Carroll Co Health Dept
49296 Harrison Co Health Dept
49344 Toronto Health Dept
49328 Jefferson Co Health Dept
49360 Steubenville Health Dept
     
29616 HOS-1501 East Liverpool City Hospital
29632 HOS-1502 Salem Community Hospital
49552 HOS-0701 Barnesville Hospital
49568 HOS-0702 Bellaire Hospital
49584 HOS-0703 East Ohio Regional Hospital
49664 HOS-3401 Harrison Community Hospital
49712 HOS-4101 Trinity Medical Center (East)
49728 HOS-4102 Trinity Medical Center (West)
     
20944 TRI EMS Tri-County Ambulance (Columbiana)
     
38336 CRLTONPD Carrollton PD
56480 SO15DSP Columbiana County SO
62688 SO-7 Mutual Aid - Belmont Co
62736 SO-10 Mutual Aid - Carroll Co
62816 SO-15 Mutual Aid - Columbiana Co
63120 SO-34 Mutual Aid - Harrison Co
63232 SO-41 Mutual Aid - Jefferson Co


Why are all of those OSP talkgroups considered local? Because OSP units from nearby posts are often patrolling in our area and may sometimes be heard on their talkgroups. Also, the OSP is consolidating dispatching.

OSP Consolidated Dispatching - East Ohio

Post 15 - Lisbon

  • Dispatches for Post 15 Lisbon and Post 50 Canfield

Post 7 - St. Clairsville

  • Dispatches for Post 7 St Clairsville, Post 41 Steubenville

Post 30 - Cambridge

  • Dispatches for Post 30 Cambridge, Post 84 Marietta

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