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Heath is a city in Licking County about 30 miles east of Columbus, with the motto 'City of Progress - Citizens With Pride'; it is one of only three cities in Licking County and its third-largest municipality.

On Heath's northern edge stand the Great Circle Earthworks, part of the Newark Earthworks built by the Hopewell culture - at 1,054 feet across, with walls eight feet high and a moat five feet deep, the Great Circle is among the largest circular earthworks in the Americas.

The Newark Earthworks complex originally covered more than 3,000 acres; the surviving Great Circle in Heath is a National Historic Landmark, was named Ohio's official prehistoric monument in 2006, and is preserved as Moundbuilders State Memorial by the Ohio History Connection.

After World War II, Newark Air Force Base was established in Heath and operated for about 35 years as the home of the Air Force's Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center, predecessor of today's AFMETCAL and Air Force Primary Standards Lab.

Heath was incorporated as a village in 1952 under its first mayor, Richard Hoback.

Heath grew so fast in the early 1960s - from 2,426 people in 1960 to 6,066 in 1965 - that it was chartered as Ohio's 196th city in 1965.

Indian Mound Mall, which opened in Heath in 1986, was the first - and remains the only - indoor shopping mall in Licking County.

The 2020 census counted 10,412 people in Heath living in 4,335 households, and Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020-2024 put about 72% of the city's homes as owner-occupied.

Heath High School serves the city through the Heath City School District.

The Licking County Regional Airport, also known as Treneff Field, is located inside Heath's city limits.