Municipalities in the Columbus, Ohio Metro Area With Hints

With the help of a hint, can you name the cities, towns, and villages that are in the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area?

As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau

Some municipalities are partially in counties that are not in the Columbus metro

Census-Designated Places are not included

Quiz by

Rate:

Last updated: March 25, 2026

You have not attempted this quiz yet.

More quiz info >>

First submitted	March 25, 2026
Times taken	2
Average score	3.0%
Report this quiz	Report

Quiz and answer stats >>

Friends stats >>

20:00

Enter city here

/ 101 guessed

The quiz is paused. You have remaining.

Copied!

Scoring

You scored / = %

This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%

The average score is

Your high score is

Your fastest time is

more stats >>

friends stats >>

Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...

Hint	County	Municipality
Shares a name with a city in Egypt	Licking	Alexandria
Senator Thomas Sterling was born here	Fairfield	Amanda
Common female first name	Delaware	Ashley
The Snake Den Mounds were constructed outside of the village	Pickaway	Ashville
Shares a name with a city in Maryland	Fairfield	Baltimore
Famous author R. L. Stine is from here	Franklin	Bexley
Named after a city in Germany	Fairfield	Bremen
Deemed a "speed trap" by state officials	Franklin	Brice
Formed to support coal mining in the area	Hocking	Buchtel
Sits upon Ohio's oldest man-made lake.	Fairfield, Licking	Buckeye Lake
Named after a canal and a city in Virginia	Fairfield, Franklin	Canal Winchester
Named after the first industrial tool the village had	Morrow	Cardington
Founded at the junction of the Ohio-Erie and Lancaster Lateral Canals	Fairfield	Carroll
Named after a Township in Morrow County	Morrow	Chesterville
City with a shape in its name	Pickaway	Circleville
Namesake of the metro	Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin	Columbus
Highest median income community in Pickaway County	Pickaway	Commercial Point
Formerly known as one of the most lawless towns in the State of Ohio	Perry	Corning
Was the home of Hull pottery	Perry	Crooksville
Takes its name from a nearby creek	Pickaway	Darby Creek
Named after a U.S. state	Delaware	Delaware
Wendy's is headquartered here	Delaware, Franklin, Union	Dublin
Named after a famous American inventor and businessman	Morrow	Edison
Shares a name with another County in Ohio	Morrow	Fulton
City where United Express Flight 6291 crashed after a failed landing at Port Columbus International Airport (Now John Glenn)	Franklin	Gahanna
Originally called Zoar	Delaware	Galena
Home to a financial scandal when in 2005, its former financial director confessed to embezzling nearly $100,000 from the city	Crawford, Morrow, Richland	Galion
Completely surrounded by Hopewell Township	Perry	Glenford
Home to "Bank Block", a historic strip mall	Franklin	Grandview Heights
Home to Denison University	Licking	Granville
Named after a colonel	Licking, Muskingum	Gratiot
Named for the remaining groves of trees after the initial clearing for the city	Franklin	Grove City
Formed when 2 rival cities merged in 1846	Franklin	Groveport
Originally called Fleming	Licking	Hanover
Named after the capital of Pennsylvania	Franklin, Pickaway	Harrisburg
Named after a city in Connecticut	Licking	Hartford
Home to the Great Circle Earthworks	Licking	Heath
The 6th town laid out in Licking County	Licking	Hebron
Named for a grove of trees near the original town site	Perry	Hemlock
Home of the Franklin County Fair	Franklin	Hilliard
Known for the finding of an almost complete mastodon skeleton under the city	Licking	Johnstown
Laid out at the site of a railroad junction	Perry	Junction City
Located along the South Fork of the Licking River	Licking	Kirkersville
Designated the "Pressed Glass capital of Ohio"	Fairfield	Lancaster
Named after a native plant that grew in the surrounding hills	Hocking	Laurelville
"Stone city" in Greek	Fairfield, Franklin	Lithopolis
Located near Rickenbacker International Airport	Franklin, Pickaway	Lockbourne
Named after a chief of the Mingo people	Hocking	Logan
Shares a name with a city in the UK	Madison	London
Platted in 1879 when undergrounds Springs were discovered in the area	Union	Magnetic Springs
Takes its name from a quarry company	Franklin	Marble Cliff

Hint	County	Municipality
Reportedly named after an 1800 battle in France	Morrow	Marengo
Slogan is "Where the grass is greener"	Union	Marysville
Also known as Sedalia	Madison	Midway
A remnant of a tallgrass prairie is located near this village	Union	Milford Center
Known for its Sweet Corn festival	Fairfield	Millersport
Founded as a trolley park	Franklin	Minerva Park
County Seat of Morrow County	Morrow	Mount Gilead
Birthplace of basketball coach Bob Hill	Madison	Mount Sterling
Formerly fielded a semi-professional football team known as the Tigers	Hocking	Murray City
Known as one of the richest Columbus suburbs	Franklin, Licking	New Albany
Originally called Flemingsburgh	Fayette, Pickaway	New Holland
Nicknamed "The City With Values"	Perry	New Lexington
Founded as a coal mining town	Perry	New Straitsville
Home to the world's largest basket	Licking	Newark
Formed as a stagecoach junction in 1838	Franklin	Obetz
Known for a scavenger hunt where residents search for small doors around the village	Delaware	Ostrander
Name derives from the Delaware language	Licking	Pataskala
Known as the "Violet Capital of Ohio"	Fairfield, Franklin	Pickerington
Designated a "Tree City USA" in 2024	Madison	Plain City
A fire here destroyed a glass factory	Fairfield	Pleasantville
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is located near here	Delaware	Powell
Smallest incorporated community in Ohio	Perry	Rendville
The first commercially successful tomato variety was made here	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	Reynoldsburg
Northernmost municipality in Union County	Union	Richwood
Incorporated in 1939	Franklin	Riverlea
The Nelson McCoy Pottery Company was founded here	Muskingum, Perry	Roseville
Named after a creek nearby	Fairfield	Rushville
Named after an Indian people	Perry	Shawnee
Originally founded to be a resort fishing community in the 1920s	Delaware	Shawnee Hills
Home to the oldest Catholic parish in Ohio	Perry	Somerset
Formerly the "Puppetry Capital of America"	Pickaway	South Bloomfield
Has a similar name to a city in Cuyahoga County	Madison	South Solon
Shares a name with a former Greek city-state	Morrow	Sparta
Located along the North Fork of the Licking River	Licking	St. Louisville
The founder of this village named it after himself	Fairfield	Stoutsville
Nicknamed "Gateway to the Hocking Hills"	Fairfield	Sugar Grove
Designated a city on October 22, 2021	Delaware	Sunbury
Birthplace of Union general William Sooy Smith	Fairfield, Pickaway	Tarlton
Location of the Lost Lands music festival	Perry	Thornville
Home to the Charles W. Fairbanks Festival	Union	Unionville Center
Located just west of The Ohio State University	Franklin	Upper Arlington
Had the first African-American female mayor in the United States	Franklin	Urbancrest
Named after a city in New York	Licking	Utica
One of the many enclaves of Ohio's state capital	Franklin	Valleyview
A cardinal direction was added to the city's name to distinguish it from another city in Ohio named after a president.	Madison	West Jefferson
"West" of a previous Fairfield County village	Fairfield	West Rushville
Home to Otterbein University	Delaware, Franklin	Westerville
Originally designated "refugee land" for Canadian refugees in the American Revolution	Franklin	Whitehall
Surrounded by Deer Creek Township	Perry	Williamsport
Named in honor of an Ohio governor	Franklin	Worthington