Burton City is an
unincorporated community
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in
Wayne County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Ohio
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History
Burton City was originally called Fairview, and under the latter name was laid out in 1850.
Geography
Burton City lies mainly on flat plains and is a little bit over halfway between the villages of Dalton
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and Marshallville. The town lies along the Newman Creek which eventually flows into the Tuscarawas River
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. The town is near Orrville, and is considered by some online mapping services and websites to be a suburb of the city.
Demographics
As an unincorporated community, Burton City's population is not counted independently by the US census and is rounded into Orrville's, which also shares a ZIP code of 44667 with Burton City.
Infrastructure and transport
Burton City has no maritime ports, though it is bisected east-west by freight railroad tracks presently owned and operated by Norfolk Southern
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.Ohio State Route 94
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, the main road through, in and out of the unincorporated community as well as giving access to Interstate 76
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fifteen miles to the north and U.S. Route 30
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three miles to the south. Burton City relies on Akron–Canton Airport
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for commercial air travel (with some longer-distance routings opting for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
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).
References
Unincorporated communities in Wayne County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
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