, Ohio, USA
1895 - Ohio

Ohio, a north central state of the American Union, bounded N. by the state of Michigan and Lake Erie, E. by Pennsylvania and West Virginia, S. by West Virginia and Kentucky, and W. by Indiana. The state limits include nearly all the Wine Islands of Lake Erie, along which lake the state has a water-front of 230 miles, while the navigable Ohio River divides it from West Virginia and Kentucky, washing the S.E. and S. border of the state for 436 miles. The longest E. and W, measurement is 225 miles; N. and S., 205 miles. Area, 41,060 square miles, of which about one-third is under cultivation, one-fifth pasture, and one sixth woodland. But a small percentage is unproductive...

The principal cities and towns, following the census of 1890, are Cincinnati, the largest city, and a great" port and manufacturing centre (pop. 296,90s); Columbus, the capital (1880, 51,647; 1890, 88,150); Cleveland. principal lake-port (261.353); Toledo (81.434), Dayton, 61,220), Youngstown (33,220), Springfield (31.89%); Akron (27,601), Canton (26,189), Zanesville (21,009), Findlay (18,533), Sandusky (18,471), Hamilton (17,565), Lima (15,981), Newark (14,270), Mansfield (13,473), Steubenville (13,394), Portsmouth (12,394), Chillicothe (11,288), East Liverpool (10,956), Ironton (10,939), Tiffin (10,801), Massillon (10,092), Bellaire (99.34), Piqua (90.90), Ashtabnla (8338), Marion (8327), Marietta (8273), Delaware (8224), Defiance (7694), Middletown (7681), Alliance (7607), Lan caster (7555), Xenia (7301), Norwalk (7195), Fremont (7144), Fostoria (7070), Circleville (6556), Urbana (6510), Galion (6326), Martin Ferry (6250), Mount Vernon (6027), Bucyrus (5974), Warren (5973), besides many other thriving towns like Wooster, Salem, Washington, Elyria, Kenton, Van Wert, Greenville, Wellsville, &c., some of them populous, and many having important industrial and commercial interests...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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