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Ortonville, a northern rural village in Oakland County, was founded in 1848 by Amos Orton, who built a dam across Kearsley Creek to furnish water power for his gristmill. The town was platted in 1866 and incorporated as a village in 1902. It is located about halfway between Pontiac and Flint.
Brandon Charter Township is a charter township of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 15,384 at the 2020 census. [3]As a northern suburb of Metro Detroit, Brandon Township is about 30 miles (48.3 km) north of the city of Detroit and about 20 miles (32.2 km) southeast of Flint.
Hancock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,920. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Findlay. [2] The county was created in 1820 and later organized in 1828. [3]
Area code 330 was established on March 9, 1996 in an area code split of area code 216. It was Ohio's first new area code since the creation of NANP in 1947. Area code 234, originally planned as the relief code for the Jacksonville, Florida area, was established on October 30, 2000, to form an overlay plan for the service area. Ten-digit dialing ...
Findlay (/ ˈ f ɪ n l i / FIN-lee) is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. [5] The second-largest city in Northwest Ohio, Findlay lies about 40 miles (64 km) south of Toledo. Its population was 40,313 at the 2020 census. [6]
In 1936, with a Kewpee already located in Findlay, Ohio, Hoyt “Stub” Wilson, the Lima Kewpee licensee, opened a restaurant in Findlay called Wilson's Sandwich Shop. [5] The original building was yellow and the width of a subway car and could host up to 32 diners. It was an example of the "enamel and steel" road food culture.
US 68 takes a south–north route throughout Ohio, roughly paralleling Interstate 75 but covering counties one tier to the east of those counties covered by I-75. US 68 begins at the William H. Harsha Bridge over the Ohio River and is immediately concurrent with US 52 and US 62 for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) while traveling on the north bank of the river.
Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation Main page; Contents; Current events; ... Ortonville State Recreation Area is a 5,400-acre (2,200 ha) recreation area, ...