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Antwerp is a village in Paulding County, Ohio, United States, along the Maumee River. The population was 1,676 at the 2020 census. Antwerp is the nearest village to the Six Mile Reservoir, the site of the Reservoir War in 1887. Antwerp is the birthplace of Asa Long, the checkers player. The place is named after the Belgian city of Antwerp.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
City or town Namesake Notes Athens: Athens, Alabama: Was first Called Athenson when it incorporated in 1818 Athens, Georgia [10] Athens, Ohio Athens, New York Athens, Texas New Athens, Illinois Larissa: Larissa, Texas [50] Larissa, Arizona Nafpaktos (Venetian: Lepanto) Lepanto, Arkansas: named for the Battle of Lepanto [9] Tempe: Tempe, Arizona ...
Texhoma City, Texas (Texas and Oklahoma) oil boom town in Archer County during the 1920s; gradually disappeared after the oil was gone [67] Texla, Texas (Houston County) (Texas and Louisiana) not near Houston, but also not near the Louisiana border [68] Texmo, Oklahoma (Texas and Missouri) settlers from Missouri [11]
[130] [131] A 2016 study on immigrants in Ohio concluded that immigrants make up 6.7% of all entrepreneurs in Ohio although they are just 4.2% of Ohio's population, and that these immigrant-owned businesses generated almost $532 million in 2014. The study also showed that "immigrants in Ohio earned $15.6 billion in 2014 and contributed $4.4 ...
This is a list of sister cities in the United States state of Ohio.Sister cities, known in Europe as twin towns, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.
Many towns and cities across the United States bear the names of their counterparts in Belgium: Liège, Charleroi, Ghent, Antwerp, Namur, Rosiere and Brussels. [ citation needed ] Wisconsin and Michigan have the United States's largest Belgian American settlement, located in portions of Brown, Kewaunee and Door counties adjacent to Green Bay .
Columbus Street, Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Interstate 10 in California , U.S. was designated and signed as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway from 1976 to 2022 Asia