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There is eighty-eight counties in the state of Ohio. The Ohio Constitution allows counties to set up a charter government as many cities and villages do, but only Summit County has done so.

Wyandot County, Ohio

Wyandot County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Upper Sandusky
Year Organized: 1845
Square Miles: 406

Court House:

109 South Sandusky Avenue
County Courthouse
Upper Sandusky, OH 43351-1435

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Residents named the county in honor of the Wyandot Indians.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

On February 3, 1845, the Ohio government authorized the creation of Wyandot County. Residents named the county in honor of the Wyandot Indians. Previously, the county had been part of land reserved to Ohio’s Indian people, under the Treaty of Greeneville.

Wyandot County is located in northern Ohio. It is predominantly rural, with only four percent of the county’s 406 square miles consisting of urban areas. The county seat is Upper Sandusky. With a population of 6,533 people, Upper Sandusky was the county’s largest community in 2000. Many residents of Ohio’s rural communities are seeking better lives and more opportunities in the state’s larger cities, but Wyandot County seems to be remaining stable in population. Wyandot County experienced a 2.9 percent population growth rate between 1990 and 2000, bringing the total number of residents up to 22,908. The county averages fifty-six people per square mile.

Farming is the largest employer in Wyandot County, with eighty percent of the county’s acreage under cultivation. Manufacturing businesses rank a close second. In 1999, the per capita income in the county was just over twenty-two thousand dollars, with seven percent of the people living in poverty.

Most voters in Wyandot County claim to be independents, yet in recent years, they have overwhelmingly supported Republican Party candidates at the national level.

Sources
Wyandot County, Ohio History Central, July 24, 2008,
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2039&nm=Wyandot-County

Neighboring Counties:

Seneca County (north)
Crawford County (east)
Marion County (south)
Hardin County (southwest)
Hancock County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Antrim	township
- Benton	township
- Carey	village	Incorporated Area
- Crane	township
- Crawford	township
- Eden	township
- Harpster	village	Incorporated Area
- Kirby	village	Incorporated Area
- Marseilles	village	Incorporated Area
- Mifflin	village	Incorporated Area
- Nevada	village	Incorporated Area
- Pitt	township
- Richland	township
- Ridge	township
- Sycamore	village	Incorporated Area
- Tymochtee	township
- Upper Sandusky (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Wharton	village	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."