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Huron is a city in Erie County located at the mouth of the Huron River on Lake Erie, near Sandusky, with a population of 6,922 at the 2020 census and the motto “A Great Lake Place.”

Huron Township lay at the center of the Firelands, the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve set aside for Connecticut residents burned out by the British during the Revolutionary War.

The first permanent settler in the area was Quebec-born trapper and interpreter John Baptiste Flammand, who established a trading post on the Huron River about 1805.

Huron village was established between 1821 and 1824 around a new harbor at the river's mouth and quickly became a major Lake Erie shipbuilding center in the 1830s.

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad greatly expanded Huron's port beginning in 1880, and the first cargo of iron ore arrived at its docks on May 21, 1884; Huron was also home port to several commercial fishing fleets.

Nearly three square miles of Huron's roughly 7.9-square-mile area is water, reflecting its deep tie to Lake Erie and the Huron River.

At the 2020 census, Huron's residents lived in about 3,110 households, and about 19% of its 3,847 housing units were vacant, many of them seasonal lake homes.

In 1967 Huron began a controversial urban renewal program that demolished 38 downtown buildings and homes to build the Huron Boat Basin, a municipal marina that became a popular community park and gathering place.

BGSU Firelands, a regional campus of Bowling Green State University since 1968, sits just west of the city limits and enrolled more than 2,000 students.

Local students attend Huron High School, home of the Tigers, along with Woodlands Elementary School and McCormick Middle School in the Huron City School District.