31 Facts About Youngstown Ohio

Youngstown Ohio is on the Mahoning River, 58 miles southeast of Cleveland and 61 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Youngstown Ohio is midway between Chicago and New York City via Interstate 80.

Youngstown Ohio is called a midwestern city, but is less than 400 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

Traditionally known as a center of steel production, Youngstown Ohio has been forced to adapt after the steel industry in the United States fell into decline in the 1970s, leaving communities throughout the region without any major industry.

Youngstown Ohio was named for New York native John Young, who surveyed the area in 1796 and settled there soon afterward.

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In 1813, Trumbull County was divided into townships, with Youngstown Ohio Township comprising much of what became Mahoning County.

The village of Youngstown Ohio was incorporated in 1848, and in 1867 Youngstown Ohio was chartered as a city.

When radio personality Pete Gabriel, came to Youngstown Ohio, he found out at the time that there was no St Patrick's Day parade there, so he started one.

Higher transportation costs are one reason why Youngstown Ohio mills began their decline before those in other "rust belt" cities.

Apart from a fruitless six-day "sick call" of police in Detroit in June 1967, Youngstown Ohio's was the first major police strike since the Boston Police Strike in 1919.

The stated goals of Youngstown Ohio 2010 include the creation of a "cleaner, greener, and better planned and organized Youngstown Ohio".

Youngstown Ohio 2010 received an award for public outreach from the American Planning Association in 2007.

Youngstown Ohio is in the Mahoning Valley on the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau.

Youngstown Ohio has a humid continental climate, typical of the Midwestern United States, with four distinct seasons and lies within USDA hardiness zone 6a.

The Youngstown Ohio area has yet to fully recover from the loss of jobs in the steel sector.

Youngstown Ohio is the site of several steel and metalworking operations, though nothing on the scale seen during the "glory days" of the "Steel Valley".

Youngstown Ohio's downtown, which once underscored the community's economic difficulties, is a site of new business growth.

Youngstown Ohio has enjoyed a long tradition of professional and semi-professional sports.

For three seasons, Youngstown Ohio was home to the Mahoning Valley Thunder of the now-defunct af2, the minor league for the Arena Football League until 2009 when the franchise ceased operations.

Youngstown Ohio has produced many prominent athletes with connections to the city, including former world boxing champions Greg Richardson, IBF lightweight champion Harry Arroyo, College Football Hall of Fame end Bob Dove, Hall of Fame umpire Billy Evans, major league pitcher Dave Dravecky, NFL quarterback Bernie Kosar, NFL Running back Lynn Bowden Jr.

Youngstown Ohio has produced a large number of boxing champions, including bantamweight Greg Richardson, lightweights Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Harry Arroyo, and middleweight Kelly Pavlik.

Youngstown Ohio left his position in Youngstown to become President Barack Obama's auto czar, directing the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.

Decades, Youngstown Ohio was a haven for organized crime, and related corruption was ingrained into the fabric of its society.

In 2006 Youngstown Ohio was ranked by Morgan Quitno Press, a Kansas-based publishing and research company, as the 9th most dangerous city in the United States.

Youngstown Ohio has supported Democratic politicians in statewide elections throughout its history, including Sherrod Brown, Ted Strickland, and Richard Cordray.

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Youngstown Ohio has become a political backdrop for both Democrats and Republicans who go to the area to campaign on economic development and jobs.

Youngstown Ohio is served by the Public Library of Youngstown Ohio and Mahoning County system.

Youngstown Ohio is served by 10 television stations, three of which are repeaters of TV stations in other cities, and a fourth coming in the near future from Pittsburgh NBC affiliate WPXI in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania, that would easily penetrate Youngstown Ohio pending FCC approval.

Western Reserve Public Media airs on channel 45 from Alliance, Youngstown Ohio, and channel 49 from Akron is a member of PBS.

Youngstown Ohio is served by 37 different radio stations in the metropolitan area making it the 119th largest radio market in the United States.

Youngstown Ohio area is served by the Western Reserve Transit Authority bus system, which is supported through Mahoning County property and sales taxes.