Sandusky, Ohio
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State of Ohio and the governmental center of county of Erie County. Situated in northern Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie, Sandusky is midway between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east.
According to 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 25,793, and the Sandusky, Ohio Micropolitan Travel Destination had 77,079 residents. In 2011, Sandusky was ranked No.
1 by Forbes.com as the "Best Place to Live Cheaply" in the United States. The town/city has a median family income of $64,000. Sandusky is home to the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and its flagship amusement park, Cedar Point.
Cedar Point has one of the biggest collections of roller coasters in the world.
The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Sandusky a Tree City USA.
The accepted etymology is that the name "Sandusky" is derived from the Wyandot word saundustee, meaning "water" or andusti, "cold water". In his 1734 history of New France, Charlevoix transliterated the phrase as "Chinouski".
The name "L.(Lac) Sandoski" appears on a 1733 map. Sandusky Bay is identified as "Lac (Lake) Sandouske" on a 1718 map by Guillaume De - Lisle. The town/city of Sandusky was established in 1818.
Part of the town/city quickly enveloped the site of another before small village titled "Portland" (established about 1816), and eventually the town/city of Sandusky also encompassed most of the entire township that had also been called Portland. Some of the town/city was assembled on territory formerly occupied by a Native-American man titled Ogontz, and therefore the town/city is said to have been assembled upon "Ogontz' place".
Prior to the abolition of standardized in the United States, Sandusky was a primary stop on the Underground Railroad.
As depicted in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, many slaves seeking to reach freedom in Canada made their way to Sandusky, where they boarded boats crossing Lake Erie to the port of Amherstburg in Ontario.
Downtown Sandusky was designed as stated to a modified grid plan, known as the Kilbourne Plat after its designer.
Hector Kilbourne was a surveyor who laid out this grid in downtown Sandusky.
He was the first Worshipful Master of the first Sandusky Masonic Lodge known as Science Lodge #50.
Sandusky was the site of groundbreaking for the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad on September 17, 1835.
The tracks that ran through downtown Sandusky have since been removed.
Said Dickens, who travelled on the newly constructed MR&LE barns from Tiffin, "At two o'clock we took the barns ; the travelling-on which was very slow, its assembly being indifferent, and the ground wet and marshy; and appeared at Sandusky in time to dine that evening.
Muddy brown water fills Sandusky Bay, just south of Lake Erie in this astronaut photograph.
Sandusky is positioned at 41 26 48 N 82 42 33 W (41.446741, -82.709092). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 21.91 square miles (56.75 km2), of which 9.73 square miles (25.20 km2) is territory and 12.18 square miles (31.55 km2) is water. Sandusky has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa), typical of much of the central United States, with very warm, humid summers and cold winters.
Winters tend to be cold, with an average January high temperature of 32 F (0 C), and an average January low temperature of 19 F ( 7 C), with considerable variation in temperatures.
Sandusky averages 28.4 inches (721.4 mm) of snow per winter. Summers tend to be warm, sometimes hot, with an average July high temperature of 82 F (28 C), and an average July low temperature of 66 (19 C).
The highest recorded temperature in Sandusky of 105 F (41 C) was set on July 14, 1936, and the lowest recorded temperature of 20 F ( 29 C) was set on January 19, 1994. Climate data for Sandusky, Ohio Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 6.2 4.2 2.1 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 3.6 16.8 Historically, "Sandusky" is a name that can refer to multiple locations in northern Ohio; often in historical documents, the word "Sandusky" was not clarified as to which specific locale was meant, and any historical references to "Sandusky" might mean any one of the following locations, depending also on the date of the reference.
Sandusky/Sandusky City - about 1817* to present, village/city on southeast side of Sandusky Bay (*-any "Sandusky" reference dated before to 1817 would not refer to this village, officially established by this name in 1818).
Sandusky Bay - 1700 to present; early variants were "(Lac d')Otsanderket", "(Lac d')Otsandoske", "Lake Sanduske".
Sandusky River - 1740s to present.
Fort Sandusky - various locations: from c.
1754, a French fort ("Fort Sandoske") on the northwest side of Sandusky Bay; or from 1761 until 1763, a British fort on the southeastern side of Sandusky Bay; or from about 1812/1813 a fort (later called "Fort Stephenson") on the Sandusky River, near (now) Fremont, Ohio Lower Sandusky - 1760s to ?, region or village at the (now) town/city of Fremont, Ohio.
Upper Sandusky - 1760s? to present, region or village at the (now) town/city of Upper Sandusky.
Upper Sandusky is south of Sandusky.
While a common first impression is that "Upper" implies "north of", here "Upper" refers to "upstream", as in upstream of Lake Erie by means of the Sandusky River.
Upper Sandusky Old Town - 1760s? to ?, a Wyandot/Huron tribe village, about 12 miles (19 km) north of the (now) town/city of Upper Sandusky.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 70.4% White, 22.0% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 1.1% from other competitions, and 5.5% from two or more competitions.
The median age in the town/city was 38.5 years.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 74.50% White, 21.08% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.97% from other competitions, and 2.88% from two or more competitions.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Sandusky has a tourism trade fueled by Cedar Point, the neighboring islands, boating, and more recently by its many indoor and outside water parks. It is also noted for being the locale of the (fictional) "Callahan Auto Parts" in the movie Tommy Boy.
View of Cedar Point from Lake Erie Cedar Point's second roller coaster, the Figure-Eight Roller Toboggan, opened in 1902.
Before 1914, the park could only be reached by steamboat, but in that year a roadway was opened connecting the park to the mainland and Sandusky's primary roadways.
In the latter half of the twentieth century, Cedar Point shattered countless roller coaster records with rides like Corkscrew (first coaster with three or more inversions), Gemini (tallest and quickest roller coaster in the world when constructed in 1978), Magnum XL-200 (tallest and quickest roller coaster in the world when constructed in 1989), Mean Streak (tallest and quickest wooden roller coaster in the world when constructed in 1991), Raptor (tallest and quickest inverted roller coaster in the world when constructed in 1994), and Mantis (tallest and quickest stand-up roller coaster in the world when constructed in 1996).
Cedar Point brought its roller coaster total to 17 in 2007 with the assembly of Maverick.
May thru August every year, Sandusky inhabitants and incoming tourists flock to the neighboring islands north of the city, with many transit options leaving right from downtown.
The islands include Kelleys Island, South Bass Island (host of the prominent village known as Put-in-Bay), Middle Bass Island and North Bass Island.
Themed parties are a common occurrence in the summer season throughout Sandusky and on the neighboring islands, such as "Island Fest", "Rock on the Dock", and "Christmas in July"; thousands of inhabitants and tourists join in the festivities annually.
In 2008, the inhabitants of Sandusky hosted their first annual "Barge Party", where boats from as far as Toledo and Cleveland came to dock up their boats together at the sandbar, just inside Sandusky Bay. The barge party ensues twice every year, typically in late June and late July. Kalahari, an African themed indoor waterpark just outside Sandusky Major waterparks in and near Sandusky are: See also: Sandusky (Amtrak station) Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Sandusky.
A Greyhound Lines bus station is positioned on Route 101 at Route 2 south of Sandusky in Margaretta Township.
Several ferry boats and routes serve Sandusky.
Illustrated map of Sandusky in 1898 Sandusky Public Schools enroll 3,775 students in enhance major and secondary schools. The precinct administers 10 enhance schools including six elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools.
Other than enhance schools, the town/city is home to one private catholic school, St.
Both Sandusky High School and St.
Sandusky High's colors are navy and white; SMCC's are blue and gold. Sandusky (along with close-by Port Clinton and the Lake Erie Islands - known in the region collectively as "Vacationland") is served by a daily newspaper, the Sandusky Register, and ten small-town airways broadcasts.
Sandusky has one small-town tv station, religiously oriented WGGN-TV channel 52 (DTV 42).
Sandusky's locale between Toledo and Cleveland means that the town/city is also served by stations (albeit at a fringe level) in both of those markets as well.
Sandusky was featured in the 1995 comedy hit, Tommy Boy starring Chris Farley and David Spade.
According to Sandusky's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Sandusky City School District 810 9 City of Sandusky 235 10 Sandusky International, Inc.
Main article: Perkins Township, Erie County, Ohio Perkins Township is a township that lies south of Perkins Avenue, which bisects what is informally considered the Sandusky Metropolitan Area.
The Sandusky Mall and the Sandusky Speedway are positioned south of Perkins Avenue, and therefore lie in Perkins Township.
Perkins Township does not have its own chief postal service, so the township uses Sandusky city's ZIP code of 44870. Bill Berry - drummer for the band R.E.M.; lived in Sandusky from 1968 to 1972 Roger Carter experienced darts player who was born in Sandusky Denig - primary general, US Marine Corps, Sandusky's highest-ranking sea service officer and highest decorated military/naval figure George Feick (1849-1932) builder whose works include the Wyoming State Capitol, multiple buildings at Oberlin College, and various buildings in and around Sandusky Louis Rams and a seven-time Pro Bowler; played for the Blue Streaks of Sandusky High School, who retired his jersey number in a halftime ceremony "City Commission Meet Your Commissioners".
City of Sandusky.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Sandusky city, Ohio".
"Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Sandusky, Ohio".
Monthly Averages for Sandusky, OH.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"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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"Passenger rail service between Cleveland and Sandusky to be studied".
"Sandusky City School District Profile".
"Sandusky History: Ohio's Lake Erie Vacationland".
"City of Sandusky CAFR" (PDF).
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