The early 1900s brought the gas boom and with abundant gas, the hand blown glass business developed, making Utica the largest producer of glass in the United States.  In 1900, the population was 826 and in 1917, it showed 2,500.  The gas fields died out near the mid 1900s and the glass industry moved, so that in 1960 the official census showed a population of 1,839.  Last census the population was 2,134.

Utica is located very near the center of Ohio in Licking county.  It is 12 miles south of Mount Vernon, 12 miles north of Newark, both being on State Route 13, and 35 miles east of Columbus, the state capitol, on U.S. Route 62.