Paulding, Ohio
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The village of Paulding is the county seat of Paulding County, Ohio, in the United States.
Paulding was a planned community, founded in 1848 at the center of the county, and named after the county by speculators who expected to profit by moving the county seat. In 1851, the county seat was moved from Charloe, which had been county seat for a decade; prior to that, court was held at Rochester.
The town square is devoted to the courthouse, a rather attractive orange brick structure surrounded by majestic trees upon a spacious lawn. In the centennial year of 1876, the county commissioners determined to build a new courthouse, and visited many courthouses, finally deciding to erect a duplicate of the courthouse in Jackson, Michigan at a cost of $40,000. The courthouse was finished in 1886.
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Geography
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Paulding is located at 41°8'30" North, 84°34'53" West (41.141689, -84.581503)Template:GR.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 6.2 km² (2.4 mi²). 5.9 km² (2.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.20% water. It is 723 feet above sea level.
Demographics
As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2000, there were 3,595 people, 1,466 households, and 988 families residing in the village. The population in July 2004 was 3,415, a 5.0% drop since the start of the decade.[1] is estimated at The population density was 608.8/km² (1,577.1/mi²). There were 1,583 housing units at an average density of 268.1/km² (694.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 91.04% White, 2.56% African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.28% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 3.81% from other races, and 2.09% from two or more races. 6.93% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 1,466 households out of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.7% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.6% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.96.
In the village the population was spread out with 25.6% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 90.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.0 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $35,943, and the median income for a family was $41,962. Males had a median income of $33,042 versus $22,103 for females. The per capita income for the village was $17,383. 9.0% of the population and 6.3% of families were below the poverty line. 12.1% of those under the age of 18 and 5.3% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.
Tramsportation and Communications
Paulding is at the intersection of US Highway 127 and Ohio Highway 111 and the terminus of Ohio Highway 500. Formerly on the Cincinnati Northern Railroad, the tracks were removed in the 1980s. Paulding Airport, located 2 miles northeast of town, has one grass runway, 3056 x 80 ft[2]
The dominant daily newspaper is the Defiance Crescent-News[3] with some readers choosing the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette[4], Toledo Blade[5], and Lima News[6], in that order. The local weekly is the Paulding County Progress[7], Paulding residents are part of the Fort Wayne, Indiana television market.
Trivia
- Paulding has achieved an internet fame of sorts for supposedly having a law saying that a policeman may bite a rabid dog to bite him. No such law exists. However, a town councilman moved to disarm a town officer much as fictional deputy Barney Fife did not carry a loaded weapon in fictional Mayberry, another community where stolen bicycles were pretty much the extent of major crime. The officer, objecting to this indignity, pointed out that if a rabid dog were to threaten the community, he would need a gun to deal with the dog. The councilman directed the officer to proactively deal with rabid dogs by biting them first, to quiet them.
- When the Paulding Democrat and the Paulding Republican merged, there was no obvious name for the new newspaper. Editor/publisher Ralph Reinhart held a contest to choose a new name, and selected Paulding Progress as the winner.
- Miles Street is named for Paul Miles, 1970 Paulding High School graduate, who was the first US college quarterback in nearly a half century to rush 1000 yards per season for four seasons.
- Sculptor David Smith, whose Cubi XXVIII became the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction, selling for $23.8 million at Sotheby's Manhattan auction house in 2005, grew up in Paulding, where his father Harvey ran the Paulding Telephone Company and mother Golda taught school.