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Brandywine Creek (Cuyahoga River)
Brandywine Creek is a tributary of the Cuyahoga River that is partly contained in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio. Watershed The river runs into the Cuyahoga River in Sagamore Hills, Township, Summit County, Ohio, Sagamore Hills Township near the now-abandoned Jaite, Jaite Paper Mill. Discharge volume is extremely seasonal, usually a few cubic feet per second, and peaking at several hundred cubic feet per second under flood conditions. The Brandywine Creek drainage basin, watershed begins in the northern portion of Hudson, Ohio, Hudson, and includes the cities of Hudson, Macedonia, Ohio, Macedonia and Twinsburg, Ohio, Twinsburg, and the townships of Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio, Boston, Sagamore Hills, and Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio, Northfield Center. Brandywine Falls Brandywine Falls, high, at , Elevation: within Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is accessed by a parking lot located on Stanford Road, about from Brandywine Road, approximately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit County, Ohio
Summit County is an urban county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 540,428, making it the fourth-most populous county in Ohio. Its county seat and largest city is Akron. The county was formed on March 3, 1840, from portions of Medina, Portage and Stark Counties. It was named Summit County because the highest elevation on the Ohio and Erie Canal is located in the county. Summit County is part of the Akron, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.7%) is water. The largest portion of Cuyahoga Valley National Park is located in the northern part of the county. The southern border of the former Connecticut Western Reserve passes through the southern part of the county, leading to jogs in the east and west borders of the county. Major highways * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio
Boston Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States, about 15 miles north of Akron and 23 miles south of Cleveland. It is part of the Akron metropolitan area. The 2000 census found 1,664 people in the township, 1,062 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Geography Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships and municipalities: * Sagamore Hills Township - north * Northfield Center Township - northeast * Boston Heights - northeast, south of Northfield Center Township *Hudson - east *Stow - southeast corner *Cuyahoga Falls - south * Bath Township - southwest * Richfield Township - west * Brecksville - northwest Two villages are located in Boston Township: most of Boston Heights, in the northeast, and Peninsula, in the center. Peninsula is still part of the township but Boston Heights is separate. Cuyahoga Falls annexed an area along State Road and Northfield Center has the Brandywine area d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word '' ohiːyo, meaning "good river", "great river" or "large creek". The Ohio River forms its southern border, though nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River, Great Miami River, Maumee River, Muskingum River, and Scioto River. The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River, and the rivers in the southern part of the state drain into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio River and then the Mississippi. The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, including the downtown business district of Dayton. As a result, the Miami Conservancy Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandywine Village, Ohio
Brandywine Village, Ohio is a former settlement located near Brandywine Falls in Summit County, Ohio, USA. It is within the boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The site lies on the border between Northfield Center Township and Sagamore Hills Township. History The Village of Brandywine was first settled in 1814 when George Wallace, taking advantage of the water power, built a sawmill at Brandywine Falls. It was a thriving community. Over the next decade, the Village of Brandywine added a whiskey distillery, gristmill, woolen mill, and a dozen houses. In 1824, Wallace transferred his property to his sons who then formed the Wallace Brothers Company. Business thrived for the next 30 years. Eventually, Brandywine's prosperity dried up. The Ohio and Erie Canal, and later the railroads, shipped goods to the cities of Akron and Cleveland, leaving towns like Brandywine behind. Except for the barn and house built by James Wallace in 1848 only a few hidden foundations rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford Shale
The Bedford Shale is a shale geologic formation in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia in the United States. Identification and name John Strong Newberry, director of the Ohio State Geological Survey, first identified the formation in 1870. He called it the "Bedford Shale" and designated its type locality at Tinkers Creek near Bedford, Ohio. Details of the type locality and of stratigraphic nomenclature for this unit as used by the U.S. Geological Survey are available on-line at the National Geologic Map Database. The Bedford Shale in northern Ohio is a red, predominantly soft clay shale that grades to grayish-black near its base. Siltstone beds, showing ripples and some as much as thick, are interbedded near the bottom. This red Bedford Shale consists mostly of sandstone and siltstone, and is much more argillaceous from mid-state Franklin County north-northeast to Lorain County on Lake Erie. Proceeding east from Lorain County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Sagamore Hills Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 US Census population was 10,845 people in the township. Geography Located in the northwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships and municipalities: * Walton Hills - north *Northfield - northeast * Northfield Center Township - east * Boston Township - south *Brecksville - west *Independence - northwest corner * Valley View - northwest, east of Independence No municipalities are located in Sagamore Hills Township. Name and history It is the only Sagamore Hills Township statewide. Government The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio State Route 8
State Route 8 (SR 8) is a road in the U.S. state of Ohio. SR 8 stretches from the eastern junction of Interstate 76 (I-76) and I-77 in Akron to Public Square in Cleveland. It is one of nine routes to enter downtown Cleveland at Public Square. The route's first few miles are as a limited-access freeway from I-76 and I-77, heading north. The freeway section of the highway has 16 interchanges, and is cosigned with SR 59 for a short distance from Perkins Street in Akron to Front Street in Cuyahoga Falls. The freeway portion ends at I-271 in Macedonia. Route description SR 8 begins at an interchange with I-76 and I-77 southeast of downtown Akron. The Akron Expressway, as the freeway is known within the city limits, heads up the east side of Akron. SR 8's first interchange is the main access to the central business district and the University of Akron. Just before leaving central Akron, an interchange with Perkins Street begins a concurrency with SR 59. The road continues over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio State Route 82
State Route 82 (SR 82) is a state route in northeastern Ohio, with a western terminus at State Route 57 in Lorain County, southeast of Elyria. Route description The route travels predominantly eastward through the southern suburbs of Cleveland as it traverses part of Lorain County, the southern tier of Cuyahoga County, the northern tier of Summit County, and enters Portage County. This segment of State Route 82 is very heavily traveled, and intersects with four interstate highways. Six-ramp interchanges join the route with Interstate 71 and Interstate 77, a partial interchange joins 82 with Interstate 271, and a diamond interchange intersects with Interstate 480/ State Route 14. The route also passes through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Brecksville, where it crosses the Cuyahoga River on the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge. After passing through the northern tier of Portage County, State Route 82 crosses central Trumbull County, becoming a freeway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northfield Center Township, Summit County, Ohio
Northfield Center Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 4,931 people in the township. Geography Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships and municipalities: * Northfield - north * Macedonia - northeast * Hudson - southeast corner * Boston Heights - south * Boston Township - southwest * Sagamore Hills Township - west Several municipalities are located in what was originally part of Northfield Center Township: *A small part of the village of Boston Heights, in the southeast *The village of Northfield, in the north *Much of the city of Macedonia, in the east Name and history It is the only Northfield Center Township statewide. Government The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
