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Norwalk is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Huron County, Ohio, United States. The populace was 17,012 at the 2010 census.

The town/city is the center of the Norwalk Micropolitan Travel Destination and part of the Cleveland-Akron-Canton Combined Statistical Area.

Norwalk is positioned approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Lake Erie, 51 miles (82 km) west/southwest of Cleveland, 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Toledo, and 87 miles (140 km) north/northeast of Columbus.

Several locations in the Firelands were titled in honor of those cities, including Danbury, Greenwich, Groton, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, and Ridgefield.

On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut, was burned by the British Tories under Governor Tryon.

On November 9, 1808, a group of prominent people from Ridgefield, Norwalk, New Haven, Greenwich, and Fairfield met at the courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut, as the Board of Directors of the Proprietors of the 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of territory lying south of Lake Erie, called the "Sufferers Land".

In July 1817, Benedict returned to Norwalk with his family and immediately assembled a home.

This was the first permanent residence established inside the limits of Norwalk Village.

In May 1818, the governmental center of county was successfully removed from Avery, Ohio, to Norwalk, and by 1819 a census showed a populace of 109 residents.

Platt Benedict, the founder of Norwalk and its first mayor, died in 1866 at the age of 91.

In 1881, Norwalk's populace reached the required minimum entitling her to incorporate as a town/city and the City of Norwalk dates from April 12, 1881. Norwalk is positioned at 41 14 35 N 82 36 41 W (41.243024, -82.611371). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.15 square miles (23.70 km2), of which 8.87 square miles (22.97 km2) is territory and 0.28 square miles (0.73 km2) is water. The town/city of Norwalk is bound by Norwalk Township in each direction and a small portion of the west side is bound by Ridgefield Township.

The town/city is positioned approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of Lake Erie.

There were 6,764 homeholds of which 34.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% were married couples living together, 14.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 35.2% were non-families.

Norwalk's general aviation needs are met by its airport, Huron County Airport.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is positioned 45 miles northeast of Norwalk.

Interstate 80 and Interstate 90, also known as the Ohio Turnpike, are approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Norwalk's town/city limits with an interchange at U.S.

Highways that run through Norwalk include U.S.

Route 20 (part of the Norwalk bypass south of town), which joins Fremont to the west and Elyria to the east; and U.S.

State highways that run through Norwalk include SR 13, which joins Mansfield from the south and Huron from the north; SR 18, which joins Tiffin from the west and Medina from the east; and SR 61, which joins Shelby from the south and Berlin Heights as well as Lake Erie from the northeast.

Furthermore, State Route 601 is an alternate two-lane highway that acts as a de facto easterly bypass of Norwalk and US 250, running from SR 113 at Milan to SR 18 southeast of Norwalk.

One active freight barns line runs through Norwalk, the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad.

Due to town/city annexations and previously determined school precinct boundaries, Norwalk is served by four enhance school districts.

The majority of the town/city is served by the Norwalk City School District.

Residents of Norwalk who live in school districts have the option to send their kids to Norwalk City Schools through open enrollment. Norwalk is also home to multiple options for theological education including Norwalk Catholic Schools / Saint Paul High School (Roman Catholic), and Trinity Christian Academy (Protestant, non-denominational).

Hall of Fame American football coach Paul Brown was born in Norwalk on September 7, 1908. Ban Johnson, first president of baseball's American League, was born in Norwalk on January 5, 1865.

Reed, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, was born in Norwalk on March 4, 1822. City of Norwalk History of Norwalk "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).

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Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about Norwalk, Ohio.

"Norwalk, a town and county-seat of Huron co., O.".

"Norwalk, a town and the capital of Huron co., Ohio".

Municipalities and communities of Huron County, Ohio, United States County seat: Norwalk Bronson Clarksfield Fairfield Fitchville Greenfield Greenwich Hartland Lyme New Haven New London Norwalk Norwich Peru Richmond Ridgefield Ripley Sherman Townsend Wakeman

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