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Defiance is a city in and the county seat of Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The population was 17,066 at the 2020 census . It is located at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Toledo and 47 miles (76 km) northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana , in Ohio's northwestern corner.
WONW has been on the air in Defiance since 1948 under the ownership of Tri-State Broadcasting, Inc, and started as a full service radio station with news, sports, music, and other events. WONW was a long time affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System until MBS shut down in 1999.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Defiance 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.
Defiance County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,286. [2] Its county seat and largest city is Defiance. [3] The county was named after an early Army fortification, Fort Defiance, which was so named by Mad Anthony Wayne to signify the settlers' "defiance" of the Indians.
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Fort Defiance was an American military fortification built in 1794 during the Northwest Indian War in what was then the Northwest Territory. Following the Treaty of Greenville, the fort was abandoned in 1796. The site of the fort, adjacent to where the Auglaize River flows into the Maumee River, now lies within the city of Defiance, Ohio.
Significant highways in Delaware Township include: [5] County Road 424, which travels east–west through the southern half of the township; U.S. Route 127, which travels north–south through Sherwood in the western half of the township
WZOM signed on the air on August 25, 1989. Its first official programming was a high school football game between Defiance High School and Napoleon High School. The game featured the return of local sports announcer Marv Sebring. Sebring was known for a colorful call of local sports and he had an amazing memory for local sports history.