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Mount Gilead is a village and the county seat of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. It is located 41 miles (66 km) northeast of Columbus . The population was 3,503 at the 2020 census .
It is a recreational community built around a small artificial lake and the headwaters of the Kokosing River, a southeast-flowing tributary of the Walhonding River and part of the Muskingum River watershed leading to the Ohio. Hidden Lakes is 4 miles (6 km) east of Mount Gilead, the Morrow county seat, and 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Mansfield.
Gilead Township is one of the sixteen townships of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,942 people lived in the township; 3,503 lived in the village of Mount Gilead and 422 lived in the village of Edison .
Mt. Gilead State Park is a public recreation area located immediately to the east of the village of Mount Gilead in Morrow County, Ohio, United States. The state park covers 181 acres (73 ha), 32 of which are the upper and lower lakes. It offers hiking, camping, picnicking, fishing and electric-motor boating as well as wintertime ice skating ...
Ohio: County: Morrow: Area [1] • Total. 2.39 sq mi (6.2 km 2) ... Candlewood Lake is a census-designated place in Morrow County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Its county seat is Mount Gilead. [3] The county was organized in 1848 from parts of four neighboring counties and named for Jeremiah Morrow who was the Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826. Shawnee people used the area for hunting purposes before white settlers arrived in the early 19th century.
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It is bordered to the north by Lake Erie, to the west by Geneva Township, and to the east by Ohio State Route 45. State Route 531 is the main road through the community, paralleling the lakeshore and leading east-northeast 5 miles (8 km) to Ashtabula Harbour and west-southwest 4 miles (6 km) to Geneva-on-the-Lake.