Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville, Ohio City of Steubenville Official seal of Steubenville, Ohio Location of Steubenville in Jefferson County and state of Ohio.
Location of Steubenville in Jefferson County and state of Ohio.
Steubenville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Ohio River, it had a populace of 18,659 at the 2010 census.
The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben, a 1786 fort that sat inside the city's current limits and was titled for German-Prussian military officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
Steubenville is known as the "City of Murals", after its more than 25 downtown murals. It is home to Franciscan University of Steubenville and Eastern Gateway Community College. Steubenville is a principal town/city of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a populace of 124,454 residents.
7.1 City parks In 1786 87, the soldiers of the 1st American Regiment assembled Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the territory west of the Ohio River, and titled the fort with respect to Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
In the meantime, pioneer had assembled homes around the fort; they titled their settlement Steubenville.
The name Steubenville was derived from Fort Steuben to honor Baron von Steuben (the fort was titled for the Baron).
Clair, and Steubenville was chose as the County seat and was platted in the same year by Bezaliel (Bezaleel) Wells and James Ross, the city's co-founders.
On March 1, 1803, Ohio was admitted to the Union as the 17th state. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Steubenville was primarily a port town, and the rest of the county was small villages and farms.
Steubenville received a town/city charter in 1851.
In 1946, the College of Steubenville was established by the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular. In 1980, its name was changed to University of Steubenville, and finally in 1985 to Franciscan University of Steubenville. In 2009, the college period its service precinct by three Ohio counties, and was retitled again: Eastern Gateway Community College.
The town/city gained global attention in late 2012 from the affairs encircling the Steubenville High School rape case, which occurred in August 2012.
The Veterans Memorial Bridge joins Steubenville to Weirton, West Virginia athwart the Ohio River and is the border crossing between the states of West Virginia and Ohio on U.S.
Steubenville is positioned at 40 21 30 N 80 37 0 W (40.359, 80.614). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.63 square miles (27.53 km2), of which 10.55 square miles (27.32 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water. The town/city lies along the Ohio River, with the town/city spreading west from the floodplains to the hills that surround the city.
The city's populace peaked in 1940 and has been in continuous diminish since.
From 1980 to 2000, census figures show that the Weirton Steubenville populace decreased faster than any other urban region in the United States. Steubenville is a principal town/city of the Weirton Steubenville, WV OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, part of the Pittsburgh Combined Statistical Area. As of the census of 2010, there were 18,659 citizens , 7,548 homeholds, and 4,220 families residing in the city.
The median age in the town/city was 38.8 years.
As of the census of 2000, there were 19,015 citizens , 8,342 homeholds, and 4,880 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 22.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $26,516, and the median income for a family was $36,597.
Steubenville and the communities that surround it, especially Weirton, West Virginia, have experienced sluggish economies since the steel trade waned amid the 1980s.
Travel time between the Pittsburgh International Airport and the town/city of Steubenville is now approximately 25 minutes.
Steubenville is positioned near two large shale formations - the Marcellus and Utica formations.
Fort Steuben, positioned downtown on South Third Street, is a reconstructed 18th century fort on its initial locale overlooking the Ohio River.
The Fort Steuben Visitors center is home to the Museum Shop and the Steubenville Convention & Visitors Bureau and is an official site on the Ohio River Scenic Byway. After the Ohio nation was surveyed, it could be sold or given away as territory grants; the pioneer brought their deeds to be registered at the Land Office to David Hoge, the Registrar of Lands and Titles for the Northwest Territory. "Ohio Valley Steelworker" Statue was created by artist Dimitri Akis as a tribute to the Ohio Valley Steelworkers.
In the fall of 2014, the statue was moved to its new home, displayed on South Fourth Street at the site of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County. As of 2012, the Steubenville High School football team, Big Red, has the twentieth-most wins among U.S.
High school football teams. The team had a 15 0 record in the 2005 season, ending as Ohio Div-III State Champions.
Steubenville High has the second-most victories in the state for baseball state poll champions 1994, 1998, and 2011.
The town/city is also home to Steubenville Catholic Central High School, 1993 Div-V State Champion and 2005 Div-VI State runner-up. The Steubenville Parks and Recreation Department maintains over twenty parks and recreation facilities inside the City.
Beatty Park, positioned in the south side of Steubenville is the biggest of the town/city parks.
The Martin Luther King Recreation Center, positioned at 905 Market Street is a no-charge facility for inhabitants of the town/city to appreciate basketball, programs and activities, a meeting/activity space as well as the offices to the Parks and Recreation Department.
Several lesser tot lot type parks dot the city.
Climate data for Steubenville, Ohio Officials Appointed by Steubenville City Council The City of Steubenville is part of the 6th Congressional precinct of Ohio and is represented by Bill Johnson.
The 6th precinct is the longest US House precinct in Ohio and runs along the southeast state borders of Ohio.
Over a reconstructionof 20 years the town/city lost, or settled out of court, 48 civil rights lawsuits involving its law enforcement.
The report from the Department also stated that excessive force was levied against individuals who witnessed incidents of police misconduct, and against those who were known critics of the town/city and its law enforcement.
As a result, the city's law enforcement became the second town/city in the United States to sign a consent decree with the federal government due to an excessive number of civil rights lawsuits.
Under this agreement, the town/city agreed to advancement the training of its police officers, implement new guidelines and procedures, establish an internal affairsunit, and establish an "early warning system". The speed camera program began in 2005 and earned the town/city $600,000 in revenues, as nearly 7,000 tickets at $85 each were issued amid that time period.
In March 2006, the Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the town/city ordinance of supporting the speed camera program was illegal and unconstitutional.
The town/city refused to remove the cameras, however, because it stated it was "bound by contract to continue the services" of Traffipax, Inc., the US subsidiary of ROBOT Visual Systems, a German corporation.
In mid-2006, an attorney filed a class-action lawsuit against the town/city of Steubenville for illegally collecting fines and generating unnecessary revenue from motorists.
He won the case in December 2007 and the town/city was forced to refund thousands of tickets totaling $258,000. Stern also gathered enough signatures from the inhabitants of the town/city to put forth a popular vote that posed the question of whether the city's ordinance authorizing the speed camera program should continue.
On November 8, 2006, town/city residents voted to end the city's speed camera program with a 76.2 percent majority. The Franciscan University of Steubenville is a private, four-year college affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
On July 24, 2012, after being threatened with a lawsuit from the atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation, the Steubenville town/city council decided to remove the image of Franciscan University from its town logo clean water pay for a lawsuit. The town/city later proposed a logo that encompassed a chapel and cross. Public schools in Steubenville are directed by the Steubenville City School District.
There are a total of five schools in the district: Wells Academy, West Pugliese, Garfield, Harding Middle, and Steubenville High School.
A portion of far Steubenville is served by the Indian Creek Local School District.
Several private schools are positioned in Steubenville.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville operates Bishop John King Mussio Central Elementary School, Bishop John King Mussio Central Junior High School and Steubenville Catholic Central High School.
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