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Wikimapia (stylized as wikimapia) is a geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map that utilizes Google Maps with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
Athens County is a county in southeastern Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,431. [2] Its county seat and largest city is Athens. [3] The county was formed in 1805 from Washington County. Because Ohio's first state university, Ohio University, was established here in 1804, the town and the county are named for the ancient center ...
List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...
Created from a portion of Cherokee County and originally called Cass County after General Lewis Cass: General Francis S. Bartow (1816–61), Confederate political leader; first Confederate general killed in the American Civil War: 250.09 115,041: 460 sq mi (1,191 km 2) Ben Hill County: 017: Fitzgerald: 1906: Irwin and Wilcox counties
Athens is a city and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States.The population was 23,849 at the 2020 census. Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Athens County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Etymology and nickname. The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps ...
Scope. WikiProject Ohio was formed to unify and coordinate all things Ohio-related on Wikipedia and help to maintain The Ohio Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize Ohio-related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the dozens of articles that fall under this project's ...