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Lake County
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county in Ohio, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- Founded
- March 6, 1840
- Named after
- Lake Erie
- Seat
- Painesville
- Largest city
- Mentor
- Total
- 979 sq mi (2,540 km )
- Land
- 227 sq mi (590 km )
- Water
- 752 sq mi (1,950 km ) 77%
- Estimate 2025
- 232,217
- Density
- 1,020/sq mi (396/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 14th
- Website
- www .lakecountyohio .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Lake Erie
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Ohio
- Contains
- Painesville
- Capital
- Painesville
- Population
- 232603
- Area
- 2535
- Body of water
- Lake Erie
- Shares border with
- Ashtabula County
- Official website
- www.lakecountyohio.gov
- Image
- Lake County Courthouse, Painesville OH, USA.jpg
- Households
- 96534
- Licence plate code
- 43
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- different from
- Lake County
- Commons category
- Lake County, Ohio
- topic's main category
- Category:Lake County, Ohio
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lake County, Ohio
- inception
- 1840-03-06
- water as percent of area
- 77
- native label
- Lake County
- per capita income
- 35007
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 232,603. Its county seat is Painesville, and its largest city is Mentor.
The county was established on March 6, 1840, from land given by Cuyahoga and Geauga counties. Its name is derived from its location on the southern shore of Lake Erie and the fact that the majority of the county’s land lies beneath Lake Erie. Lake County is part of the Cleveland, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.