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Tiffin is a city in north-central Ohio on the Sandusky River, about 55 miles southeast of Toledo, and it has been the county seat of Seneca County since the county was created in 1824.

Tiffin's roots reach to 1812 and Fort Ball, a War of 1812 military depot on the river; the bronze 'Indian Maiden' statue on Frost Parkway marks the Fort Ball site.

In 1821 Josiah Hedges founded the town proper on the south bank of the Sandusky River and named it for his friend Edward Tiffin, the first governor of Ohio.

Tiffin was incorporated by the Ohio Legislature on March 7, 1835, and in March 1850 it absorbed the neighboring settlement of Fort Ball.

A natural gas discovery near Tiffin in 1888, on top of its river and rail links, turned the small county seat into an industrial city.

Tiffin was once a noted glass and porcelain manufacturing center — the Tiffin Glass Works operated from 1889 to 1980 and its stemware remains highly collectible.

Tiffin is home to two private universities: Heidelberg University, founded in 1850 by the German Reformed Church and affiliated with the United Church of Christ, and Tiffin University, founded in 1888 as Heidelberg's business school and independent since 1917.

Because of its two universities plus technical schools, Tiffin is often called 'The Education Community.'

Tiffin had 17,953 residents at the 2020 census, essentially level with 17,963 in 2010.

Tiffin has about 7,548 households (Census Bureau, 2020–2024), averaging 2.10 people per household; about 58.9 percent of homes are owner-occupied and the median household income is $56,198.