Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- County
- Lawrence
- Mayor
- Sam Cramblit
- City
- 4.75 sq mi (12.31 km )
- Land
- 4.47 sq mi (11.58 km )
- Water
- 0.29 sq mi (0.74 km )
- Elevation
- 558 ft (170 m)
- Density
- 2,365.2/sq mi (913.22/km )
- Metro
- 288,648
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 39-37464
- Website
- https://irontonohio.org/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Ironton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lawrence County
- Population
- 10571
- Area
- 11.544638
- Elevation
- 168
- Capital of
- Lawrence County
- Official website
- www.ironton-ohio.com
- Image
- Ironton Ohio.jpg
- Households
- 4370
- Dialing code
- 740
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- postal code
- 45638
- P8168
- Mima Jaušovec
- Commons category
- Ironton, Ohio
- topic's main category
- Category:Ironton, Ohio
- inception
- 1849-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Ironton, Ohio
- water as percent of area
- 6.6452
- different from
- Ironton
- per capita income
- 20368
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Encyclopedic overview
Ironton is a city in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 10,571 at the 2020 census. Located in southernmost Ohio along the Ohio River, it is 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Huntington, West Virginia, within the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. The city's name is a contraction of "iron town", stemming from its long ties to the iron industry. It also had one of the first professional football teams, the Ironton Tanks.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ironton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.