Streetsboro, Ohio Streetsboro, Ohio Official seal of Streetsboro, Ohio Location of Streetsboro in Portage County Location of Streetsboro in Portage County Streetsboro, Ohio is positioned in the US Streetsboro, Ohio - Streetsboro, Ohio Location in the United States and Ohio Streetsboro is a town/city in Portage County, Ohio, United States.
It is formed from the former township of Streetsboro, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve.
It is nearly co-extant with the former Streetsboro Township; the village of Sugar Bush Knolls was also formed in part from a small portion of the former township.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 24.36 square miles (63.09 km2), of which 23.46 square miles (60.76 km2) is territory and 0.90 square miles (2.33 km2) is water. They used Old Portage Trail, which crosses the southwest corner of the city, to go from Lake Erie to the Ohio River basin.
The founder of Streetsboro Township was Titus Street from Connecticut, who purchased the territory in 1798.
Streetsboro Township contained 15,279 acres (61.83 km2).
Major expansion occurred in Streetsboro with the opening of the Ohio Turnpike on October 1, 1955, with Exit 13 (now known as Exit 187) initially being the only interchange in Portage County.
By 1957, with the expansion of the automobile industry, Streetsboro experienced a populace explosion.
Proximity to the Akron and Cleveland areas, along with direct access to Interstate 80 (Ohio Turnpike), Interstate 480 and State Routes 303, 43 and 14, have greatly contributed to the rapid expansion of manufacturing, distribution, commercial and residentiary evolution in the past fifty years.
In 1968, voters decided to merge the township and the village to turn into one town/city consisting of 25 square miles (65 km2).
Streetsboro was home to a small amusement park, Shady Lake Park, positioned on Route 14, which is now an apartment complex of the same name.
Due to the steady expansion of Streetsboro and its encircling area inside the past ten years, the town/city has turn into a retail core for Portage County with the arrival of many nationwide big-box retailers including Wal-Mart Supercenter, Target, Lowe's, The Home Depot and Staples.
The first Northeast Ohio locale for Sonic Drive-In opened in Streetsboro in September 2008.
There were 6,562 homeholds of which 31.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.3% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 34.2% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 35.8% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Primary and secondary education is provided mainly by the Streetsboro City School District, which includes five schools, while a small portion of the town/city is part of the neighboring Kent City School District.
Students in preschool through third undertaking attend Streetsboro Elementary School, formerly known as Campus Elementary School.
Henry Defer Intermediate School homes students in grades four through six with grades seven and eight at Streetsboro Middle School.
Streetsboro High School includes grades nine through 12.
All schools and the precinct offices, with the exception of Streetsboro High School, are positioned on a 116-acre (47 ha) central ground with the Streetsboro City Park.
The ground also includes the Pierce Streetsboro Library, a branch of the Portage County District Library, which opened in 1988. Voters in the precinct approved a $38.7 million bond copy in 2013 to fund expansion and renovations of the district's facilities. Included in the plans were the new building for Streetsboro High School along State Route 14, and an expansion and renovation of the former Campus Elementary to turn into Streetsboro Elementary School for grades preschool through three.
Both of those projects were instead of in December 2016 and the first classes held in January 2017. Additional plans include renovation of the former high school building to home Streetsboro Middle School, which will enable undertaking six to be moved to the middle school from Henry Defer Intermediate School, and repurposing the current middle school building. Gateway News (Weekly journal serving Streetsboro, Mantua Village and Township, and Shalersville Township) United States Enumeration Bureau.
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