Huron, Ohio
Huron, Ohio Aerial Photograph of Huron, Ohio, looking due south Aerial Photograph of Huron, Ohio, looking due south Location of Huron, Ohio Location of Huron, Ohio Location of Huron in Erie County Location of Huron in Erie County Huron is a town/city in Erie County, Ohio, United States.
Huron Township surrounds the City of Huron.
Huron Township was at the center of the "Firelands" region of the Connecticut Western Reserve, lands that were offered to inhabitants of Connecticut who had lost property to British forces amid the American Revolutionary War.
The first permanent settler in the region that became Huron Township was a Quebec-born trapper, trader and interpreter titled John Baptiste Flammond ("Fleming"), who established a trading post about a mile inland along the east bank of the Huron River in 1805.
Huron Village was later established when a town plat was drawn and port facilities at the mouth of the Huron River were advanced between 1821 and 1824; and the town quickly became a primary ship assembly center in the 1830s.
The current improve of Huron is often mistaken to have been the same as the "town plat of Huron" (also known as "the old County Seat" village), which was established in 1815, and was actually inside the present Milan Township (formerly known as Avery Township before 1821). The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad greatly period Huron's port on the east bank of the Huron River beginning in 1880.
Huron was also the home port of a several commercial fishing fleets before unbridled lake pollution decimated the trade on Lake Erie by the early 1970s.
Commercial and industrialized evolution of Huron had historically been centered around the riverfront port area.
Route 6 and Ohio Route 2 bypassing the downtown region and enabling quicker travel to larger neighboring cities, downtown Huron went into decline.
Starting in 1967, the City of Huron embarked on a controversial urban renewal program with funding from various programs of the U.S.
Federal government, such as the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the State of Ohio.
On July 18, 2006, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced the purchase of the Con - Agra Foods facility in Huron.
The City of Huron assumed title to the former grain silos and flour foundry and received a grant to demolish the building, which was instead of in August, 2012.
Huron is also the home of the "Huron Playhouse", formerly a division of Bowling Green State University's Department of Theater and Film and now an autonomous, non-profit corporation.
The Huron City School District has four schools for each level of enhance education: Huron City Schools sports squads are known as the "Tigers".
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.73 square miles (20.02 km2), of which 4.84 square miles (12.54 km2) is territory and 2.89 square miles (7.49 km2) is water. United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Huron wins fourth state title...".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties" (PDF).
Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census.
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Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census.
"Population: Ohio" (PDF).
"Population: 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".
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