Bowling Green, Ohio Bowling Green, Ohio Downtown Bowling Green, Ohio as seen from the intersection of Main St.
Downtown Bowling Green, Ohio as seen from the intersection of Main St.
Official seal of Bowling Green, Ohio Location of Bowling Green in Wood County Location of Bowling Green in Wood County Bowling Green is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Wood County, Ohio, United States. The populace was 30,028 at the 2010 census.
It is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Area and a member of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University.
Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, was incorporated as a town in 1855, and became a town/city in 1901.
The village was titled after Bowling Green, Kentucky by a retired postal worker who had once bringed mail there. With the discernment of petroleum in the late 19th and early 20th century, Bowling Green experienced a boon to its economy.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.61 square miles (32.66 km2), of which 12.56 square miles (32.53 km2) is territory and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) is water. Bowling Green is inside an region of territory that was once the Great Black Swamp which was drained and settled in the 19th century.
Bowling Green, Ohio is in the North Western hemisphere at approximately 41.376132 N, -83.623897 W.
There were 11,288 homeholds of which 18.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 30.7% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 58.6% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 13.1% under the age of 18, 46.6% from 18 to 24, 19.5% from 25 to 44, 13.2% from 45 to 64, and 7.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Every September, the Black Swamp Arts Festival takes place in Bowling Green.
Bowling Green is the biggest city now in the remnants of this vast wetland.
The Black Swamp Arts Festival attracts 40,000 art and music fans to Bowling Green.
Bowling Green has hosted the National Tractor Pulling Championships since 1967.
Every year Bowling Green hosts the Wood County Fair, a seven-day festival that begins shortly before or after the end of July.
Main Events include: Tractor Pull, Altered Farm stock Tractor Pull, Antique Tractor Pull, Mule Pull, Semi-Truck Pull, Youth Parade, Demolition/Combine Derby, Catch-a-pig, Cheerleading Competition, Harness Racing, and the annual Country Music Concert.
Similar to other winter cities, Bowling Green hosts an annual event for three days in February to jubilate winter, snow, and cold weather activities.
Winterfest in Bowling Green centers around the rich ice skating and ice hockey traditions of the town. Winterfest affairs are held all over Bowling Green, and on and off ground of Bowling Green State University.
Public elementary schools of the Bowling Green City School District include Kenwood Elementary, Conneaut Elementary and Crim Elementary. Ridge Elementary was closed in 2013 and Milton Elementary was closed in 2011. Two private major schools, Bowling Green Christian Academy and the Montessori School of Bowling Green, and one parochial, St.
Aloysius, also call Bowling Green home.
The Bowling Green Early Childhood Learning Center (Montessori) offers kindergarten and Plan, Do, Talk goes up to undertaking three.
Bowling Green Middle School Bowling Green Senior High School Bowling Green State University is positioned on the Northeast side of Bowling Green, along and north of Wooster Street (Ohio State Route 64, Ohio State Route 105).
Bowling Green State University offers shuttle services via its own buses with routes throughout ground and the downtown area. Bowling Green is linked to North Baltimore via a 13-mile rail trail called the Slippery Elm Trail, with East Broadway Street in North Baltimore on the south end and Sand Ridge Road in Bowling Green on the north end. A wind turbine outside of Bowling Green, Ohio.
Located about six miles (10 km) from the city, the turbines can be seen for miles and have turn into a small-town attraction. At the site of the turbines, a solar-powered kiosk provides knowledge for visitors, including current knowledge on wind speeds and the amount of energy being produced by the turbines.
Through the city's Municipal Utilities office, inhabitants can request that their power come from green energy.
However, Bowling Green's green credentials were damaged in 2008, when the town/city signed a power contract with AMP-Ohio to help build a 960-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio.
See also: List of Bowling Green State University alumni Andy Tracy, first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, alumnus of Bowling Green High School and Bowling Green State University Bowling Green is a sister town/city to St.
"The City of Bowling Green, Ohio".
https://bgohio.org/departments/elected-officials/council-directory/ Retrieved April 3, 2016.
https://bgohio.org/departments/municipal-administrator/ Retrieved April 3, 2016.
Early History of Bowling Green, Ohio "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
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https://blackswampfest.org/about-bsaf/ Retrieved April 3, 2016 "Wood County Fair Beginning Sunday".
"Bowling Green City Schools :: Schools".
"Bowling Green City Council buys Ridge Elementary to convert to park".
Bowling Green State University.
Wood County Park District: Slippery Elm Trail "Wood County Park District".
"Ohio's First Commercial Wind Farm".
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