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Ontario is a city in Richland County, Ohio, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 6,656. [4] [5] It is part of the Mansfield metropolitan area.It was founded in 1834 on the western edge of the Allegheny Plateau, just west of the city of Mansfield.
Camp Perry is a National Guard training facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio near Port Clinton.In addition to its regular mission as a military training base, Camp Perry also boasts the second largest outdoor rifle range in the world after the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico.
Buck Creek State Park is a 4,016-acre (1,625 ha) public recreation area in Clark County, Ohio, in the United States, that is leased by the state of Ohio from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The state park 's main feature is the C. J. Brown Reservoir, a flood control reservoir created by the USACE on Buck Creek (or Lagonda Creek ) as part of a ...
The original wooden dam was replaced in 1924 by the current concrete dam. At this time several civic organizations began a drive to set aside the land between the river and the canal as a state park. The Ohio Department of Public Works purchased the lands and Independence Dam State Park was opened to the public in 1949. [3]
The Lincoln Highway left the present State Route 309, a better-quality road at the time, in favor of the direct Delphos–Mansfield route now generally followed by US 30. Only two weeks after the official route was announced in September 1913, it had already been redefined to a straighter path between Lima and Galion ; the rest of the ...
John Bryan State Park, in Greene County, Ohio, is a state park, of 752-acre (304 ha). It surrounds Clifton Gorge, a deep cut of the Little Miami River, between Yellow Springs and Clifton. The park contains a campground, and hiking and biking trails. [2] The park also abuts the Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve and Glen Helen Nature Preserve.
Paint Creek State Park is a 5,652-acre (2,287 ha) public recreation area located in Highland and Ross counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.The state park's central feature is a reservoir, 1,148-acre (465 ha) Paint Creek Lake, [2] which was created by the damming of Paint Creek.
The Erie Plain in Ohio, defined by Lake Erie and the Portage and Marshall Escarpments (in red). The Erie Plain is a lacustrine plain that borders Lake Erie in North America . From Buffalo, New York , to Cleveland , Ohio , it is quite narrow (at best only a few miles/kilometers wide), but broadens considerably from Cleveland around Lake Erie to ...