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Hint
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County
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Municipality
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Shares a name with a city in Egypt
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Licking
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Alexandria
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Senator Thomas Sterling was born here
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Fairfield
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Amanda
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Common female first name
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Delaware
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Ashley
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The Snake Den Mounds were constructed outside of the village
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Pickaway
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Ashville
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Shares a name with a city in Maryland
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Fairfield
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Baltimore
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Famous author R. L. Stine is from here
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Franklin
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Bexley
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Named after a city in Germany
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Fairfield
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Bremen
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Deemed a "speed trap" by state officials
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Franklin
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Brice
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Formed to support coal mining in the area
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Hocking
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Buchtel
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Sits upon Ohio's oldest man-made lake.
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Fairfield, Licking
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Buckeye Lake
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Named after a canal and a city in Virginia
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Fairfield, Franklin
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Canal Winchester
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Named after the first industrial tool the village had
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Morrow
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Cardington
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Founded at the junction of the Ohio-Erie and Lancaster Lateral Canals
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Fairfield
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Carroll
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Named after a Township in Morrow County
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Morrow
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Chesterville
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City with a shape in its name
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Pickaway
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Circleville
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Namesake of the metro
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Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin
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Columbus
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Highest median income community in Pickaway County
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Pickaway
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Commercial Point
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Formerly known as one of the most lawless towns in the State of Ohio
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Perry
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Corning
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Was the home of Hull pottery
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Perry
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Crooksville
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Takes its name from a nearby creek
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Pickaway
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Darby Creek
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Named after a U.S. state
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Delaware
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Delaware
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Wendy's is headquartered here
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Delaware, Franklin, Union
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Dublin
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Named after a famous American inventor and businessman
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Morrow
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Edison
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Shares a name with another County in Ohio
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Morrow
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Fulton
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City where United Express Flight 6291 crashed after a failed landing at Port Columbus International Airport (Now John Glenn)
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Franklin
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Gahanna
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Originally called Zoar
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Delaware
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Galena
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Home to a financial scandal when in 2005, its former financial director confessed to embezzling nearly $100,000 from the city
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Crawford, Morrow, Richland
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Galion
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Completely surrounded by Hopewell Township
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Perry
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Glenford
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Home to "Bank Block", a historic strip mall
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Franklin
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Grandview Heights
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Home to Denison University
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Licking
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Granville
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Named after a colonel
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Licking, Muskingum
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Gratiot
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Named for the remaining groves of trees after the initial clearing for the city
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Franklin
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Grove City
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Formed when 2 rival cities merged in 1846
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Franklin
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Groveport
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Originally called Fleming
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Licking
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Hanover
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Named after the capital of Pennsylvania
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Franklin, Pickaway
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Harrisburg
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Named after a city in Connecticut
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Licking
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Hartford
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Home to the Great Circle Earthworks
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Licking
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Heath
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The 6th town laid out in Licking County
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Licking
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Hebron
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Named for a grove of trees near the original town site
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Perry
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Hemlock
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Home of the Franklin County Fair
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Franklin
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Hilliard
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Known for the finding of an almost complete mastodon skeleton under the city
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Licking
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Johnstown
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Laid out at the site of a railroad junction
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Perry
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Junction City
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Located along the South Fork of the Licking River
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Licking
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Kirkersville
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Designated the "Pressed Glass capital of Ohio"
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Fairfield
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Lancaster
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Named after a native plant that grew in the surrounding hills
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Hocking
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Laurelville
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"Stone city" in Greek
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Fairfield, Franklin
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Lithopolis
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Located near Rickenbacker International Airport
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Franklin, Pickaway
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Lockbourne
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Named after a chief of the Mingo people
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Hocking
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Logan
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Shares a name with a city in the UK
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Madison
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London
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Platted in 1879 when undergrounds Springs were discovered in the area
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Union
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Magnetic Springs
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Takes its name from a quarry company
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Franklin
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Marble Cliff
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Reportedly named after an 1800 battle in France
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Morrow
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Marengo
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Slogan is "Where the grass is greener"
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Union
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Marysville
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Also known as Sedalia
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Madison
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Midway
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A remnant of a tallgrass prairie is located near this village
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Union
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Milford Center
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Known for its Sweet Corn festival
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Fairfield
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Millersport
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Founded as a trolley park
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Franklin
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Minerva Park
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County Seat of Morrow County
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Morrow
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Mount Gilead
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Birthplace of basketball coach Bob Hill
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Madison
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Mount Sterling
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Formerly fielded a semi-professional football team known as the Tigers
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Hocking
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Murray City
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Known as one of the richest Columbus suburbs
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Franklin, Licking
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New Albany
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Originally called Flemingsburgh
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Fayette, Pickaway
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New Holland
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Nicknamed "The City With Values"
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Perry
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New Lexington
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Founded as a coal mining town
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Perry
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New Straitsville
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Home to the world's largest basket
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Licking
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Newark
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Formed as a stagecoach junction in 1838
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Franklin
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Obetz
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Known for a scavenger hunt where residents search for small doors around the village
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Delaware
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Ostrander
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Name derives from the Delaware language
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Licking
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Pataskala
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Known as the "Violet Capital of Ohio"
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Fairfield, Franklin
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Pickerington
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Designated a "Tree City USA" in 2024
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Madison
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Plain City
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A fire here destroyed a glass factory
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Fairfield
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Pleasantville
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The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is located near here
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Delaware
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Powell
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Smallest incorporated community in Ohio
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Perry
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Rendville
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The first commercially successful tomato variety was made here
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Fairfield, Franklin, Licking
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Reynoldsburg
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Northernmost municipality in Union County
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Union
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Richwood
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Incorporated in 1939
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Franklin
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Riverlea
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The Nelson McCoy Pottery Company was founded here
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Muskingum, Perry
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Roseville
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Named after a creek nearby
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Fairfield
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Rushville
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Named after an Indian people
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Perry
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Shawnee
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Originally founded to be a resort fishing community in the 1920s
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Delaware
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Shawnee Hills
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Home to the oldest Catholic parish in Ohio
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Perry
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Somerset
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Formerly the "Puppetry Capital of America"
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Pickaway
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South Bloomfield
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Has a similar name to a city in Cuyahoga County
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Madison
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South Solon
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Shares a name with a former Greek city-state
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Morrow
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Sparta
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Located along the North Fork of the Licking River
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Licking
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St. Louisville
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The founder of this village named it after himself
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Fairfield
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Stoutsville
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Nicknamed "Gateway to the Hocking Hills"
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Fairfield
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Sugar Grove
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Designated a city on October 22, 2021
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Delaware
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Sunbury
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Birthplace of Union general William Sooy Smith
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Fairfield, Pickaway
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Tarlton
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Location of the Lost Lands music festival
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Perry
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Thornville
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Home to the Charles W. Fairbanks Festival
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Union
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Unionville Center
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Located just west of The Ohio State University
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Franklin
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Upper Arlington
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Had the first African-American female mayor in the United States
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Franklin
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Urbancrest
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Named after a city in New York
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Licking
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Utica
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One of the many enclaves of Ohio's state capital
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Franklin
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Valleyview
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A cardinal direction was added to the city's name to distinguish it from another city in Ohio named after a president.
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Madison
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West Jefferson
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"West" of a previous Fairfield County village
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Fairfield
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West Rushville
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Home to Otterbein University
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Delaware, Franklin
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Westerville
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Originally designated "refugee land" for Canadian refugees in the American Revolution
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Franklin
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Whitehall
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Surrounded by Deer Creek Township
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Perry
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Williamsport
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Named in honor of an Ohio governor
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Franklin
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Worthington
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