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Port Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, [5] located at the mouth of the Portage River on Lake Erie. The population was 6,025 at the 2020 census . It is the principal city of the Port Clinton micropolitan area , about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Toledo .
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".
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]
Combined with nearby Sandusky and Port Clinton, Ohio, the islands are part of the collective area known regionally as "Vacationland". [2] Geology. Depth map showing ...
Map of the Portage River watershed.. The Portage River branches run northeast from Wood County & north from Hancock County to Pemberville in eastern Wood County, where it becomes one river, then into Sandusky County, and meanders across Ottawa County through Elmore & Oak Harbor before it empties into Lake Erie at what is now Port Clinton.
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.
Located in the eastern part of the county on the Marblehead Peninsula, it borders the following townships: Put-in-Bay Township - north, across Lake Erie; Catawba Island Township - northeast
The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2 ). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2 ), and its neighbor, Lake County , is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591. ...