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Catawba Island is an unincorporated community located in the northern portion of the township and the northern portion of the Catawba Island peninsula. The Catawba Island ferry terminal is located within the unincorporated community; the Miller Boat Line runs from the terminal to the Put-in-Bay, Ohio ferry terminal and the Middle Bass, Ohio ferry terminal.
Catawba Island State Park is a ten-acre (4.0 ha) public recreation area located on Lake Erie, six miles northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. Boating, fishing and picnicking are the major activities of the park. The state park, along with the other units in Ohio's Lake Erie state parks group, was established in the early 1950s. [2]
The Catawba have also been known as Esaw, or Issa (Catawba iswä, "river"), named after their territory along the principal waterway of the region.Historically, Iswa, today the river is commonly known as the Catawba River from its headwaters in North Carolina and into South Carolina before continuing as the Wateree River in Fairfield county, South Carolina.
Catawba Two Kings Casino, Kings Mountain, North Carolina; Camp Catawba, a former boys' camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina; Catawba worm, the larval stage of the Ceratomia catalpae moth; Catawba Hospital, a mental health facility in Catawba, Virginia; Catawba, a fictional state in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel
Mouse Island is a seven acre [1] private island located in Lake Erie off the northern tip of Catawba Point in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, near the city of SanduskyIt was formerly named "Ship Island", as denoted on early-19th-Century maps [2] (and in some late-18th-Century documents). [3]
The island does not have a hospital, but does have an Emergency Medical Service that can use a Life Flight helicopter to transport critically ill patients to mainland medical facilities. In 1952–1959, as well as 1963, the island held road races around a 3-mile (4.8 km) course. In 2011, the Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion returned to the island.
The island is 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the nearest point on the mainland (Scott Point in the peninsular Catawba Island Township) and approximately 10 miles (16 km) north northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio, and 14 miles (23 km) north northwest of Sandusky, Ohio. As of the 2000 census there were 631 residents on the island.
Ottawa County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,364. [2] Its county seat is Port Clinton. [3] The county is named either for the Ottawa (Odawa) Indigenous peoples who lived there, or for an Indigenous word meaning "trader".