๐บ๐ธ Bowling Green is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Ohio, United States, located 20 miles south-west of Toledo. It is part of the Toledo Metropolitan Area and a member of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University.
LifeFormations, a mechatronics company, is based in Bowling Green. They have made animatronics based on licensed properties such as Shrek for theme parks such as Universal Studios Florida.
History Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, was incorporated as a town in 1855, and became a city in 1901. The village was named after Bowling Green, Kentucky, by a retired postal worker who had once delivered mail there.
Growth and oil boom In 1868 Bowling Green was designated as the county seat, succeeding Perrysburg.
With the discovery of oil in the area in the late 19th and early 20th century, Bowling Green enjoyed a boom to its economy. The results of wealth generated at the time can still be seen in the downtown storefronts, and along Wooster Street, where many of the oldest and largest homes were built. A new county courthouse was also constructed in the 1890s. The Neoclassical US post office was erected in 1913.
Industrialization This period was followed by an expansion of the automobile industry. In late 1922 or early 1923, Coats Steam Car moved to the area and hired numerous workers. It eventually went out of business as the industry became centralized in Detroit, Michigan.
Bank robbers Pretty Boy Floyd and Billy the Killer encountered police in Bowling Green in April 1931. Their armed confrontation resulted in the death of Billy the Killer.
During World War II Italian and German prisoners of war were held nearby. They were used to staff the Heinz Tomato Ketchup factory in town. The ketchup factory closed in 1975.
A runaway freight train carrying hazardous liquids passed through Bowling Green in 2001, in what is known as the known as the CSX 8888 incident. It traveled more than 65 miles south of Toledo before being stopped by a veteran railroad worker near Kenton; he jumped into the train while it was moving. No one was hurt and there was no property damage in the incident.
Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.61 square miles (32.66ย kmยฒ), of which 12.56 square miles (32.53ย kmยฒ) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13ย kmยฒ) is water. Bowling Green is within an area of land that was once the Great Black Swamp which was drained and settled in the 19th century. The nutrient-rich soil makes for highly productive farm land. Bowling Green, Ohio is in the North Western hemisphere at approximately 41.376132ยฐN, -83.623897ยฐW.
Economy Lubrizol maintains a soap and surfactant production plant in Bowling Green. The Bowling Green plant opened in 1994 and was expanded in 2013.
Aliquantum International maintains a sales office in Bowling Green. The company licences characters from the Japanese company San-X for local markets, such as Rilakkuma.
Poggemeyer Design Group, an architecture and engineering firm, maintains its headquarters in Bowling Green.
Primary and secondary Public elementary schools of the Bowling Green City School District include Kenwood Elementary, Conneaut Elementary and Crim Elementary. Ridge Elementary was closed in 2013 and Milton Elementary was closed in 2011. Two private primary schools, Bowling Green Christian Academy and the Montessori School of Bowling Green, and one parochial, St. Aloysius, also call Bowling Green home. The Bowling Green Early Childhood Learning Center (Montessori) offers kindergarten and Plan, Do and Talk goes up to grade three.
Secondary schools include Bowling Green Middle School and Bowling Green Senior High School.
Post-secondary Bowling Green State University is located on the north-east side of the city, along and north of Wooster Street (Ohio State Route 64, Ohio State Route 105). As of September 2020, it has 20,232 students.
Library Bowling Green has the main branch of the Wood County District Public Library.
Media: Print โข Sentinel Tribune (AIM Media Midwest, LLC) โข The BG News โข BG Independent Media
Media: Radio โข WBGU 88.1 FM โข WFAL Falcon Radio โข WRQN โข WJYM 730 AM โข WWOC-LP 97.7 FM
Media: Television โข WBGU-PBS
Transport A public demand response bus service is operated by the city through B.G. Transit. Bowling Green State University offers shuttle services via its own buses with routes throughout campus and the downtown area.
Bowling Green is linked to North Baltimore via a 13-mile (21ย km) rail trail called the Slippery Elm Trail, with East Broadway Street in North Baltimore on the south end and Sand Ridge Road in Bowling Green on the north end. A CSX line runs through town.
Energy policy Ohio's first utility-sized wind farm is located along U.S. Route 6 just west of the city limits. There are four turbines that are each 257 feet (78ย m) tall. These turbines generate up to 7.2 megawatts of power, which is enough to supply electricity for some 3,000 residents. Located about six miles (10ย km) from the city, the turbines can be seen for miles and have become a local attraction. At the site of the turbines, a solar-powered kiosk provides information for visitors, including current information on wind speeds and the amount of energy being produced by the turbines.
Through the city's Municipal Utilities office, residents can request that their power come from green energy. As of March 1, 2014, the current power cost premium is $.007 per KWH.
However, Bowling Green's green credentials were damaged in 2008, when the city signed a power contract with AMP-Ohio to help build a 960-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio. Several large environmental groups, including Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Ohio Environmental Council, opposed the building of a coal-fired power plant due to the pollution it would cause. In late 2009, AMP canceled the project, citing an estimated 37% increase in cost to more than $3 billion.
In January 2017 a new 165 acre, 20 megawatt solar plant began operation on the edge of the city. The plant experienced a slight disruption from the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017.
Bowling Green has a population of over 31,580 people. Bowling Green also forms the centre of the wider Wood County which has a population of over 132,248 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Bowling Green has links with:
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