Egypt, Ohio

Egypt is an unincorporated community in western Jackson Township, Auglaize County, Ohio, United States.

Located at 40°23′8″N 84°25′59″W / 40.38556°N 84.43306°W / 40.38556; -84.43306, the community sits at an elevation of 971 feet (296 m),[1] approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the village of Minster.

[2] In the community's earliest years, travel in the vicinity was extremely difficult due to the muck of the Great Black Swamp.

The community remained small; some of the early settlers are said to have remarked that "this place smells".

[4] Egypt has always been small; its people were collectively able to raise only eight hundred dollars for the construction of their new church in 1852,[3]: 336  and in 1977 it had only a single business.