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Maumee is a city in Lucas County on the Maumee River just southwest of Toledo, and its first permanent settlement was established on the north bank of the river even before the surrounding lands were officially opened for purchase in 1817.

Maumee voters chose their first mayor and council on March 26, 1838, after the booming river port's 865 residents applied for a municipal charter.

Maumee was once a serious rival to Toledo: it served as the seat of Wood County when that county was formed in 1820, and it later won the Lucas County seat in 1840 before losing it back to Toledo in 1856.

The decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought in present-day Maumee on August 20, 1794, when General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne's Legion defeated a confederation of Native American tribes, leading to the Treaty of Greenville and opening Ohio to settlement.

The earthworks of Fort Miamis, a British fort built in 1794 to block American expansion up the Maumee Valley, still survive in Maumee, and the fort site saw action again during the War of 1812, when fighting nearby included Dudley's Defeat.

The Fallen Timbers battlefield, the Fallen Timbers Monument, and Fort Miamis were together designated the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site in 1999, managed in partnership with the National Park Service.

Maumee became the terminus of the Miami and Erie Canal when it opened in 1843, and Side Cut Metropark in the city preserves three of the original six locks of the canal's side-cut branch, along with a bronze statue of General Wayne overlooking the river.

Maumee had a population of 13,896 at the 2020 census.

According to Census Bureau QuickFacts, Maumee has about 6,004 households, and about 72% of its homes are owner-occupied.

The Maumee Uptown Historic District preserves the storefronts and homes of the merchants who prospered when nearly three miles of wharves and warehouses lined the river in the 1830s.