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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- County
- Wayne
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Total
- 17.37 sq mi (44.98 km )
- Land
- 17.32 sq mi (44.86 km )
- Water
- 0.046 sq mi (0.12 km )
- Elevation
- 1,135 ft (346 m)
- Density
- 1,572.2/sq mi (607.04/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 39-86548
- Website
- https://www.woosteroh.com/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- David Wooster
- Official name
- Wooster
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wayne County
- Population
- 27232
- Area
- 42.375506
- Elevation
- 304
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Wayne County
- Official website
- www.woosteroh.com
- Image
- Wooster downtown2.jpg
- Households
- 11127
- Dialing code
- 330
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- Commons category
- Wooster, Ohio
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wooster, Ohio
- postal code
- 44691
- IPA transcription
- /ˈwʊstɚ/
- inception
- 1808-00-00
- P8168
- Brian Aldiss
- water as percent of area
- 0.3124
- different from
- Wooster
- per capita income
- 28628
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
Wooster (/ˈwʊstər/ WUUST-ər) is a city in Wayne County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in northeastern Ohio, the city lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) south-southwest of Cleveland, 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Akron and 30 miles (48 km) west of Canton. The population was 27,232 at the 2020 census. It is the largest in Wayne County, and the center of the Wooster micropolitan area. Wooster is home to the private College of Wooster and the main branch of the Wayne County Public Library.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wooster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.