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Bowling Green is a city in, and the county seat of, Wood County, Ohio, located about 20 miles southwest of Toledo in the Toledo metropolitan area.

Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, when Elisha Martindale claimed 40 acres and camped on the site, and the settlement was briefly known as Mount Ararat before taking its permanent name.

The village was named after Bowling Green, Kentucky, by Joseph Gordon, a retired postal worker who had once delivered mail there; it was incorporated as a town in 1855 and became a city in 1901.

Bowling Green had a population of 30,808 at the 2020 census, with about 12,056 households — and an unusually low owner-occupied housing rate of about 34%, a reflection of its large student renter population.

The city grew out of the Great Black Swamp: after the swamp was drained in the 1860s, the exposed rich soil launched a farming boom around Bowling Green.

An oil and natural gas boom beginning in 1886 sent Bowling Green's population from about 1,500 in the 1880s to nearly 4,000 by the end of the 1890s, and five glass-making companies earned it the nickname 'The Crystal City.'

Bowling Green is home to Bowling Green State University, chartered by the state in 1910 as a teacher-training normal school, which held its first classes in 1914 and became a university in 1935.

BGSU enrolls more than 20,000 students across its campuses, offers over 200 undergraduate programs, and is the city's largest institution and employer.

BGSU's athletic teams are the Falcons — a nickname coined on October 28, 1927 by sports editor Ivan 'Doc' Lake — and compete in the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference.

The Wood County Historical Museum in Bowling Green preserves the region's Black Swamp, oil boom, and county history.