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Junction is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in western Auglaize Township, Paulding County,
Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
, United States. It lies along the concurrent State Routes 111 and 637. The
Auglaize River The Auglaize River ( Shawnee: ''Kathinakithiipi'') is a tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio in the United States. It drains a primarily rural farming area in the watershed of Lake Erie. The name of the river was derived from the ...
flows along the eastern edge of the community. It is located midway between the village of Paulding, the
county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
of Paulding County, and the city of Defiance, the county seat of Defiance County.


History

Junction was so-named because it was the junction between the Wabash and Erie Canal and
Miami and Erie Canal The Miami and Erie Canal was a canal that ran from Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. Construction on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1845 at a co ...
. With the construction of the railroad, business activity shifted to other nearby places, and the town's population dwindled.


References

Unincorporated communities in Paulding County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio Populated places established in the 1830s 1830s establishments in Ohio {{PauldingCountyOH-geo-stub