Circleville, Ohio Circleville, Ohio Official seal of Circleville, Ohio Location of Circleville, Ohio Location of Circleville, Ohio Location of Circleville in Pickaway County Location of Circleville in Pickaway County Circleville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States, along the Scioto River.
The city's name is derived from its originally layout after 1810 inside the 1,100 ft (340 m) diameter of a circle of a Hopewell tradition earthwork dating to the early centuries of the Common Era.
Modern Circleville was assembled to the north of this site. The frontier explorer Christopher Gist was the first recorded European visitor to the Circleville area.
Circleville was established by European-American pioneer during 1810, as migrants relocated westward after the American Revolutionary War.
The initial town plan integrated Circleville into the remains of the Hopewell earthworks with a street layout 1,100 ft (340 m) diameter circle.
The Hopewell circles were documented by Caleb Atwater, a resident and historian who was considered an early archeologist; the earthworks were illustrated by Plate 5 of his Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States, a 160-page report he presented in 1820 in the first volume of the Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society. Dissatisfaction among inhabitants rose over Circleville's layout, however.
During 1837 at the request of the town, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the "Circleville Squaring Company" to convert the town plan into a squared grid, as was typical of other platted towns.
During April 1967, Bingman's Drug Store and a several neighboring buildings on West Main Street in downtown Circleville were finished when Lee Holbrook, the husband of a drug store employee, brought a wooden box including bundled dynamite to the store and it detonated amid a struggle with the store's staff.
Circleville is positioned at 39 36 N 82 57 W (39.60, 82.95). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.76 square miles (17.51 km2), of which, 6.64 square miles (17.20 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) is water. Median home prices in the Circleville region as of 2009 were $120,147. As of the census of 2010, there were 13,314 citizens , 5,402 homeholds, and 3,447 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.4% White, 1.9% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.4% from other competitions, and 1.7% from two or more competitions.
There were 5,402 homeholds of which 30.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples living together, 14.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 36.2% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 39.3 years.
23.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.8% were from 25 to 44; 25.4% were from 45 to 64; and 17.7% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 13,485 citizens , 5,378 homeholds, and 3,581 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.36% White, 2.54% African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.27% from other competitions, and 1.08% from two or more competitions.
There were 5,378 homeholds out of which 31.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.8% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.4% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $34,572, and the median income for a family was $41,943.
About 11.1% of families and 13.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 21.4% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.
Manufacturing makes up a momentous proportion of region industry and employment; in the 2010 census, 3075 county inhabitants (13.4%) were working in manufacturing. Circleville is home to the biggest Du - Pont chemical plant in Ohio.
A GE Lighting plant, recently period to produce energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps, opened in 1948 and presently employs more than 200 citizens . Other manufacturing concerns in Circleville or encircling Pickaway County include Aleris, a producer of rolled and extruded aluminum products, and Florida Production Engineering, Inc.
The PPG Industries Circleville plant is the company's center for polymer resin production, primarily for automotive applications. Fastenal Company distributes industrial, safety and assembly supplies from its facility on US Highway 23 west of Circleville.
Other primary employers include Berger Health System; Circleville City, Teays Valley Local and Logan Elm Local School districts; Circle Plastics/Tri - Mold LLC; the State of Ohio; and Wal-Mart Stores. Circleville hosts the Circleville Pumpkin Show every October.
Caleb Atwater known as the "Father of Ohio's Public School System", the state's first historian, and an early scholar of the ancient Native American mounds and other earthworks in the Ohio Valley Ohio Christian University (formerly Circleville Bible College) United States Enumeration Bureau.
"American Fact - Finder".
City of Circleville.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Number of Inhabitants: Ohio" (PDF).
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
...prices for homes range from about $20,000 to upwards of a million dollars, with $110,000 being the median value for the town/city of Circleville.
"Demographics and Income plus other small-town statistics for Pickaway County P3 Ohio".
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