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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- County
- Scioto
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- Charlotte Gordon
- City manager
- Sam Sutherland
- Total
- 11.08 sq mi (28.69 km )
- Land
- 10.73 sq mi (27.79 km )
- Water
- 0.35 sq mi (0.90 km )
- Elevation
- 846 ft (258 m)
- Density
- 1,701.2/sq mi (656.82/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 39-64304
- Website
- portsmouthohio .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Portsmouth
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Scioto County
- Population
- 18252
- Area
- 28.676299
- Elevation
- 162
- Body of water
- Ohio River
- Capital of
- Scioto County
- Official website
- www.portsmouthoh.org
- Image
- US Grant Bridge aerial 2017.jpg
- Households
- 8447
- Dialing code
- 740
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- Commons category
- Portsmouth, Ohio
- topic's main category
- Category:Portsmouth, Ohio
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Portsmouth, Ohio
- inception
- 1803-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- postal code
- 45662
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Portsmouth, Ohio
- P8168
- SKN
- water as percent of area
- 3.0493
- per capita income
- 22093
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Portsmouth is a city in Scioto County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in southern Ohio 41 miles (66 km) south of Chillicothe, it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River, across from Kentucky and just east of the mouth of the Scioto River. The population was 18,252 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Portsmouth micropolitan area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portsmouth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.