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Warren, Ohio

Warren, Ohio
City
City of Warren
Downtown Warren
Downtown Warren
Motto: "Historic Capital of the Western Reserve"
Location within the state of Ohio
Location within the state of Ohio
Location of Warren in Trumbull County
Location of Warren in Trumbull County
Coordinates: 41°14′18″N 80°48′52″W / 41.23833°N 80.81444°W / 41.23833; -80.81444Coordinates: 41°14′18″N 80°48′52″W / 41.23833°N 80.81444°W / 41.23833; -80.81444
Country United States
State Ohio
County Trumbull
Founded 1798
Government
 • Mayor William D. Franklin
Area
 • City 16.16 sq mi (41.85 km2)
 • Land 16.13 sq mi (41.78 km2)
 • Water 0.03 sq mi (0.08 km2)
Elevation 892 ft (272 m)
Population (2010)
 • City 41,557
 • Estimate (2015) 40,245
 • Density 2,576.4/sq mi (994.8/km2)
 • Metro 565,773
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 44481-44488
Area code(s) 330 234
FIPS code 39-80892
GNIS feature ID 1084083
Website http://www.warren.org

Warren is a city in and the County seat of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio, approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Youngstown and 15 miles (24 km) west of the Pennsylvania state line.

The population was 41,558 at the 2010 census. Warren is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798, on 441 acres (1.78 km2) of land that he purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Quinby named the town for the town's surveyor, Moses Warren. The town became the Trumbull County seat in 1801.

In 1833, Warren contained county buildings, two printing offices, a bank, five mercantile stores, and about 600 inhabitants.

Warren had a population of nearly 1,600 people in 1846. In that same year the town had five churches, twenty stores, three newspaper offices, one bank, one woolen factory and two flourmills. In June 1846, a fire destroyed several buildings on one side of the town square, but residents soon replaced them with new stores and other businesses. Warren became an important center of trade for farmers living in the surrounding countryside during this period. Songwriter Stephen Foster, his wife Jane McDowell, and their daughter Marion lived briefly in Warren.

During the latter decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, Warren remained an important trading and manufacturing center. By 1888, four railroads connected the community with other parts of Ohio. In that same year, there were five newspaper offices, seven churches, three banks and numerous manufacturing firms in Warren. The businesses manufactured a wide variety of products including linseed oil, furniture, barrel staves, wool fabric, blinds, incandescent bulbs, automobiles and carriages. Warren was the first town in the US to have an electric street illumination, provided by the Packard Electric Company, founded 1890 in Warren. Warren's population was 5,973 people in 1890. Construction began on the Trumbull County Courthouse in downtown Warren on Thanksgiving Day, 1895.


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