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Lima is a city in and the county seat of Allen County in northwest Ohio, with a population of 35,579 at the 2020 census.

Lima was founded in 1831 as the mandated seat of Allen County after the Shawnee surrendered their lands in the area, and it was named after Lima, Peru.

Despite the spelling, locals pronounce the city's name LY-ma, like the bean, not like the Peruvian capital.

On May 19, 1885, Benjamin C. Faurot struck oil along the Ottawa River while drilling for natural gas, igniting the great Oil Boom of Northwest Ohio.

By 1887 the Lima oil field was considered the largest in the world, and from 1886 to 1900 it led the world in production, yielding about 190 million barrels.

Standard Oil built its Solar Refinery in Lima, where chemist Herman Frasch perfected a way to remove sulfur from Lima's foul-smelling sour crude; the site remains the oldest continuously operated oil refinery site in Ohio.

In 1893 a trunk pipeline carried Lima oil to Chicago, where it lit the buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition.

The Lima Locomotive Works, one of America's largest steam locomotive builders, produced 7,752 locomotives in Lima between 1879 and 1951.

Lima has about 14,273 households, but only about 45.6% of its homes are owner-occupied, and the median home value is around $107,200.

Lima is home to The Ohio State University at Lima, a regional campus of Ohio State that shares its grounds with James A. Rhodes State College.