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Sylvania is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo whose northern border is the Michigan state line.

Sylvania's name comes from the Latin word 'sylva,' meaning forest land, a nod to the dense forests of the Great Black Swamp that once covered the region - its nickname today is the 'City of Trees.'

General David White is considered the founder of Sylvania; he built a log cabin near the present corner of Summit and Monroe streets in the early 1830s, and the original plat of Sylvania was presented by Judge William Wilson in June 1836.

Sylvania's land was originally part of Monroe County, Michigan, and the largely bloodless Toledo War boundary dispute of the 1830s is what placed it in Ohio.

Sylvania was incorporated in 1867, and its original 1858 railroad depot still survives as an exhibit in the Sylvania Historical Village open-air museum.

Sylvania had 19,011 residents at the 2020 census.

Sylvania had 7,754 households at the 2020 census, and about 77.6 percent of its homes are owner-occupied, according to Census Bureau QuickFacts.

Sylvania's Fossil Park, opened in 2001, is one of only two places in the world where visitors with no paleontology experience can dig for fossils themselves, splitting shale that often yields trilobites and other early Devonian specimens.

The city is built on large Silica shale deposits, quarried for cement and concrete, that are famous among paleontologists for their high-quality Devonian fossils.

The Lathrop House, built in 1853, hid escaping slaves in a secret room behind an oven door as a stop on the Underground Railroad; it now stands in Harroun Park.