Wellington
Wellington is a small town in Lorain county, Ohio, some 20 miles south of Lake Erie. It was established in 1855 and came to national prominence in 1858 when some three dozen men stormed the town hotel, rescued a runaway slave from a US posse, and smuggled him to freedom in Canada.Photo: Lar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 4,670 residents
- Description: village in Lorain County, Ohio, United States
- Also known as: “Wellington, OH” and “Wellington, Ohio”
- Postal code: 44090
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wellington High School and Findley State Park.
Wellington High School
School
Wellington High School is a public high school located in Wellington, Ohio in Lorain County, Ohio. The school colors are maroon and white, and the mascot and nickname for the sports teams is the Wellington Dukes.
Findley State Park
Park
Photo: Loganwagner56, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Findley State Park is an Ohio state park located in Wellington, a small village in northern Ohio, United States. It was originally known as the Findley State Forest. Findley State Park is situated 2½ miles south of Wellington.
Wellington
- Categories: village of Ohio and locality
- Location: Lorain County, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.1686° or 41° 10′ 7″ northLongitude
-82.2176° or 82° 13′ 3″ westPopulation
4,670Elevation
850 feet (259 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WGNOpen location code
86HV5Q9J+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 154361159OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wellington” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويلينغتون”
- Basque: “Wellington”
- Catalan: “Wellington”
- Cebuano: “Wellington”
- Chinese: “Wellington”
- Chinese: “威靈頓 (俄亥俄州)”
- Chinese: “威靈頓”
- Dutch: “Wellington”
- French: “Wellington”
- German: “Wellington”
- Gilaki: “ولینگتن (اؤهایؤ)”
- Gilaki: “ولینگتن”
- Haitian: “Wellington, Ohio”
- Haitian: “Wellington”
- Italian: “Wellington”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン”
- Ladin: “Wellington”
- Malagasy: “Wellington, Ohio”
- Malagasy: “Wellington”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wellington”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wellington (Ohio)”
- Norwegian: “Wellington”
- Polish: “Wellington”
- Portuguese: “Wellington”
- Russian: “Веллингтон”
- Serbian: “Велингтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wellington, Ohio”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wellington”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولینقتون، اوهایو”
- Spanish: “Wellington (Ohio)”
- Spanish: “Wellington”
- Swedish: “Wellington, Ohio”
- Swedish: “Wellington”
- Ukrainian: “Веллінгтон”
- Urdu: “ویلنگٹن، اوہائیو”
- Urdu: “ویلنگٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Wellington, Ohio”
- Vietnamese: “Wellington”
- Volapük: “Wellington”
- Welsh: “Wellington, Ohio”
- Welsh: “Wellington”
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Localities in the Area
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