East Liverpool is a city in southeastern Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,958 at the 2020 census. It lies along the Ohio River within the Upper Ohio Valley and borders Pennsylvania to the east and West Virginia to the south. East Liverpool is included in the Salem micropolitan area, about 34 miles (55 km) from both Youngstown and downtown Pittsburgh.

East Liverpool is notable for its pottery industry, which was at one become old the largest in the United States. Holly Black’s ceramic-themed novel Doll Bones is set in East Liverpool.

Native American petroglyphs exist in the Place surrounding East Liverpool, including on Babbs Island and near the Little Beaver Creek. Before the beginning of European Americans, Mingo, Lenape, and Wyandot peoples lived in the Place until the Battle of Fallen Timbers led to the Ohio Country’s settlement. The Public Land Survey System of the United States was acknowledged by Congressional legislation in 1785, in order to manage to pay for an orderly mechanism for start the Northwest Territory for settlement. The ordinance directed the Geographer of the United States, Thomas Hutchins, to survey an initial east–west base line. Hutchins began in 1786, using as his starting dwindling a stake on north bank of the Ohio River placed by a 1785 survey team from Virginia and Pennsylvania to repair their common north–south boundary. Hutchins’ work, completed in 1787, established the Seven Ranges, with a baseline more or less 45 miles (72 km) line. This survey is believed to be “the first mathematically designed system and nationally conducted cadastral survey in any protester country.”

East Liverpool traces its founding to 1798, when Irish immigrant Thomas Fawcett purchased 1,100 acres of land along the Ohio River in what was next Jefferson County. In 1802, he platted the town of St. Clair, named for Governor Arthur St. Clair of the Northwest Territory. It was called Fawcettstown for a time, before beast renamed Liverpool in 1816, after Liverpool, England. Over its first few decades, a grist mill, multiple stores, and wharves opened in the town. The first schoolhouse opened in 1820, and the first religious middle opened in 1834 subsequently the Episcopalians erected a building upon a 4th Street site provided by town developers. Liverpool was incorporated as East Liverpool in 1834 following Liverpool Township in Medina County objected to reachable confusion.