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Summit County
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county in Ohio, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- Founded
- March 3 , 1840
- Named after
- the highest elevation on the Ohio and Erie Canal
- Seat
- Akron
- Largest city
- Akron
- County executive
- Ilene Shapiro ( D )
- Total
- 419.38 sq mi (1,086.2 km )
- Land
- 412.08 sq mi (1,067.3 km )
- Water
- 7.3 sq mi (19 km ) 1.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 538,376
- Density
- 1,311.5/sq mi (506.36/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 13th
- Website
- co .summitoh .net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Ohio
- Contains
- Oakley
- Capital
- Akron
- Population
- 540428
- Area
- 1088
- Shares border with
- Medina County
- Official website
- co.summitoh.net
- Image
- Summit County Courthouse, Akron, OH, USA.jpg
- Households
- 226721
- Licence plate code
- 77
Show 9 more facts
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Summit County, Ohio
- Commons category
- Summit County, Ohio
- topic's main category
- Category:Summit County, Ohio
- inception
- 1840-03-03
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Summit County, Ohio
- water as percent of area
- 1.7
- native label
- Summit County
- different from
- Summit County
- per capita income
- 34684
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Encyclopedic overview
Summit County is an urban county located in the northeast region of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 540,428, making it the fourth-most populous county in Ohio. Its county seat and most populous city is Akron. The county was formed on March 3, 1840, from portions of Medina, Portage and Stark counties. It was named Summit County because the highest elevation on the Ohio and Erie Canal is in the county. Summit County is part of the Akron, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Summit County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.