Lordstown

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Lordstown
Lordstown (Ohio)
Lordstown
Lordstown
Location in Ohio
Basic data
State : United States
State : Ohio
County : Trumbull County
Coordinates : 41 ° 10 ′  N , 80 ° 52 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′  N , 80 ° 52 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 3,633 (as of: 2000)
Population density : 60.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 59.9 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of
which 59.9 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 290 m
Postal code : 44481
Area code : +1 330
FIPS : 39-44912
GNIS ID : 1061443
Website : www.lordstown.com
Mayor : Arno Hill

Lordstown is a town in Trumbull County , Ohio , United States . The population was 3,663 at the 2000 census.

history

Lordstown emerged from Lordstown Township, which was bought by the settler Samuel P. Lord of the Connecticut Western Reserve . Samuel P. Lord later gave it to his son. The first log cabin was built here by Henry Thorne in 1829, Isaac Bailey settled in a place in the township that is still called Bailey's Corner today. The first settlers bought small lots and had modest huts, but over time farmers could afford to buy additional land. This made the farms bigger, but the population stayed the same.

Lordstown is the youngest parish in Trumbull County. It was founded in 1975. The township administration was then dissolved. The community grew steadily after a General Motors auto factory and other metalworking companies opened. In November 2018, General Motors announced that it would close the factory in late 2019. The last day of production was March 6, 2019.

tornado

On May 31, 1985, a tornado destroyed several buildings in Lordstown. The hurricane had a strength of F5 on the Fujita scale , which means a speed of 400 to 500 km / h. It came from the west, from Newton Falls to Lordstown and then moved on to Niles and Hubbard , swept south of Masury and caused the greatest destruction in neighboring Wheatland , Pennsylvania , where numerous factories were destroyed. After the Newton Falls tornado destroyed two churches, it came to the north edge of Lordstown, where a woman was killed on West Leavitt Road. Ten homes were destroyed in the Layer, Palmyra, Tait and Highland Road area.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Taylor Telford: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, stop production at five plants in US and Canada. In: Washington Post. November 26, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Julia Horowitz: Production finally wants on GM's Lordstown, Ohio, plans on Wednesday. In: cnn.com . March 5, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ Website about the 1985 tornado
  4. ↑ Thomas W. Schmidlin and Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin: Thunder in the heartland. Kent State University Press, 1996 ISBN 0873385497 p. 294

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