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The Black River [2] is a tributary of Lake Erie, about 12 mi (19 km) long, in northern Ohio in the United States. [3] Via Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, it is part of the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. The Black drains an area of 470 mi² (1217 km²). [4]
The Great Black Swamp (also known simply as the Black Swamp) was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana, United States, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. Comprising extensive swamps and marshes, with some higher, drier ground interspersed, it occupied what was formerly ...
Black River Township, Lorain County, Ohio, was originally established officially as Town (ship) "Number 7 in Range 18", of the Connecticut Western Reserve about '1807', but was later assigned the name, "Black River" township in '1817' ( although at that time also judicially included other areas of the county, until the year 1830). By the mid ...
Elyria ( / əˈlɪəriə / ə-LEER-ee-ə [6]) is a city in, and the county seat of, Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Cleveland. [7] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 52,656. [8] It is a principal city in the Cleveland metropolitan area.
The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio. It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth. It also had connections to other canal systems in Pennsylvania . The canal carried freight traffic from 1827 ...
July 26, 2024 at 7:15 AM. It was after a series black bear sightings in western Kentucky ended on July 5 that residents across southern Illinois began reporting seeing bears. And that’s why a ...
The Great Flood of 1913 occurred between March 23 and March 26, after major rivers in the central and eastern United States flooded from runoff and several days of heavy rain. Related deaths and damage in the United States were widespread and extensive. While the exact number is not certain, flood-related deaths in Ohio, Indiana, and eleven ...