Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Tuscarawas County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,263.[3] The county seat is New Philadelphia.[4]
Tuscarawas County, Ohio | |
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Location in the state of Ohio | |
Ohio's location in the U.S. | |
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Founded | March 15, 1808[1] |
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Seat | New Philadelphia |
Largest City | New Philadelphia |
Area - Total - Land - Water |
571 sq mi (1,479 km²) 568 sq mi (1,471 km²) 3.8 sq mi (10 km²), 0.7% |
Population - (2020) - Density |
93,263 auto/sq mi (Expression error: Unrecognized word "auto"./km²) |
Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 |
Website: www.co.tuscarawas.oh.us | |
Named for: Delaware Indian word variously translated as "old town" or "open mouth".[2] |
Communities
Cities
- Dover
- New Philadelphia (county seat)
- Uhrichsville
Villages
Townships
- Auburn
- Bucks
- Clay
- Dover
- Fairfield
- Franklin
- Goshen
- Jefferson
- Lawrence
- Mill
- Oxford
- Perry
- Rush
- Salem
- Sandy
- Sugar Creek
- Union
- Warren
- Warwick
- Washington
- Wayne
- York
Census-designated places
Other unincorporated communities
- Barrs Mills
- Bernice
- Blackband
- Booth
- Brightwood
- Bucks
- Columbia
- Eastport
- Fiat
- Gilmore
- Glasgow
- Goshen
- Hartwood
- Lock Seventeen
- Lowden
- Mount Tabor
- New Cumberland
- Newport
- Peoli
- Postboy
- Ragersville
- Riverside Park
- Rock
- Rockford
- Rush
- Schoenbrunn
- Somerdale
- Stillwater
- Wainwright
- West Chester
- Wilkshire Hills
- Winfield
- Winklepleck Grove
- Wolf
- Yorktown
- Zoarville
Tuscarawas County, Ohio Media
Built in 1778, Fort Laurens was the only military fort built in the state of Ohio during the Revolutionary War, located on the west bank on the Tuscarawas River near the town of Bolivar.
Monument commemorating the Moravian Christian Indian Martyrs who were massacred in 1782 at the mission settlement of Gnadenhutten.
The Treaty of Greenville map of 1795.
Ohio and Erie Canal seen in Tuscarawas County from "Geography of Ohio," 1923
References
- ↑ "Ohio County Profiles: Tuscarawas County" (PDF). Ohio Department of Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 21, 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
- ↑ "The Export of Pennsylvania Placenames, William A. Russ, Jr". Retrieved May 2, 2007.
- ↑ "QuickFacts: Tuscarawas County, Ohio". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
- ↑ National Association of Counties. "NACo County Explorer". Retrieved January 18, 2024.