Wooster, Ohio Wooster, Ohio City of Wooster Location of Wooster in Wayne County and state of Ohio Location of Wooster in Wayne County and state of Ohio Wooster / w st r/ is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Ohio and the governmental center of county of Wayne County.
Wooster is noted as the locale of The College of Wooster.
Wooster was established in 1808 by John Bever, William Henry, and Joseph Larwill, and titled after David Wooster, a general in the American Revolutionary War. The populace was 24,811 at the 2000 census and 26,119 at the 2010 Census. The town/city is the biggest in Wayne County, and the center of the Wooster Micropolitan Travel Destination (as defined by the United States Enumeration Bureau).
Wooster has the chief branch and administrative offices of the Wayne County Public Library. Wooster is the place of birth of the Compton brothers: Arthur Compton, physics Nobel Prize winner and chancellor of Washington University in St.
In 2013, Foreign Direct Investment periodical reviewed Wooster's company friendliness and strategy, and has ranked it amongst North America's Top 10 Micro Cities 2013/2014. Wooster is positioned at 40 48 33 N 81 56 14 W (40.809301, -81.937258). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.36 square miles (42.37 km2), of which, 16.31 square miles (42.24 km2) is territory and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) is water. The town/city rests at 997 feet above sea level.
There were 10,733 homeholds of which 26.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.8% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 14.9% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Wooster is the command posts of a several industrial entities.
Buehler Food Markets Inc., Wooster Brush, Seaman Corp., Tricor Industrial, Wooster Motor Ways, and Certified Angus Beef have corporate command posts located in Wooster.
Rubbermaid made its corporate command posts in Wooster until the end of 2003.
Lu - K, the German manufacturer of dual clutch transmissions has its North America command posts in Wooster where mainly torque converters are produced.
Other large commercial operations in Wooster are Frito-Lay, Akron Brass, United Titanium, and Bogner Construction Company.
Wooster is also the world command posts of the Prentke Romich Company (PRC) which is a member of a consortium of companies that produce assistive technology and augmentative communication devices. For its size, Wooster is also dedicated to the "industry of education." It has The College of Wooster, and two subsidiaries of The Ohio State University: the Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI); and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), a teaching and research facility dedicated to agricultural science.
In addition to these industries, Wooster remains an agricultural center for Ohio.
Students in Wooster and encircling rural communities continue to enroll in youth farming programs such as 4-H and National FFA Organization.
A several traditional Amish farmers come to Wooster by horse-and-buggy for commerce as well.
In June 2013, the town/city of Wooster announced that Daisy Brand, a sour cream producer, plans to open a new Midwest manufacturing plant in Wooster.
The overlap of strong education and advanced manufacturing has led to number of small innovative firms being established in Wooster in recent years including Quasar Energy Group, Expense - Wire, ABSMaterials, 3i-ingredients, and Cureo. Wooster also has a small-town food improve including Local Roots, a collective year round farmer's market for locally produced goods.
The Wayne County Airport (BJJ) serves as an air access point for many of the businesses throughout the city.
Wooster, and the greater Wayne County community, is served by the Wayne Center for the Arts, which displays artwork by small-town artists, offers instructional courses, and stages performances. The College of Wooster is home to the Ohio Light Opera, a experienced opera business that performs the light opera repertory, including Gilbert and Sullivan, and American, British, and continental operettas of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Wooster Symphony Orchestra, established in 1915, is a joint venture between the Wooster improve and the College of Wooster.
Wooster was the home to the Wooster Korn Kings, which was a minor league experienced ice hockey team that was a member of the All American Hockey League. The team's home arena was Alice Noble Ice Arena.
Wooster Oilers ice hockey 2006 Great Lakes Junior Hockey League Alice Noble Ice Arena 1 2009 2010 Wooster has a several parks in town and close-by with hiking trails, playgrounds, and picnic areas.
Wooster Memorial Park, locally known as Spangler Park, offers 7 miles of hiking trails through woods, ravines, and open fields along the Rathburn Run.
Wayne County courthouse in downtown Wooster As of 2017, the town/city is represented in the Ohio House of Representatives by Scott Wiggam (R); in the Ohio Senate by Frank La - Rose (R); in the U.S.
Wooster Daily Record command posts in downtown Wooster The town/city has a daily newspaper, The Daily Record, presented by Dix Communications/Wooster Republican Printing Co., and a weekly paper, The Wooster Weekly News, presented by Graphic Publications Inc.
In addition, the Akron Beacon Journal occasionally covers the town/city and Wayne County.
The town/city has a locally owned interactive town/city magazine, Wooster - Grapevine.com.
The town of Collepietro in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzi region of Italy, is officially recognized as a Sister City of Wooster.
Wooster City School District The College of Wooster The following individuals were born in, raised in, lived in, or presently live in Wooster.
Wooster Nagar, a fishing village in India titled after Wooster, whose inhabitants funded the assembly of homes there United States Enumeration Bureau.
"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".
Local Roots Market & Cafe, Wooster, Ohio "Wooster Symphony Orchestra".
Founded in 1915 by Daniel Parmelee, then Professor of Violin at Wooster College, the Wooster Symphony Orchestra is the second-oldest orchestra in continuous performance in the state of Ohio.
Wooster Daily Record 15 Feb.
That's the short-lived story of the Wooster Korn Kings Single-A pro hockey team, which moved their charter to Wooster at the end of October and abruptly pulled out Tuesday.
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