Defiance
Defiance is a city in Defiance County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 17,066 at the 2020 census. It is located at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers about 55 miles southwest of Toledo and 47 miles northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana, in Ohio's northwestern corner.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,100 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Defiance County, Ohio, United States
- Also known as: “Defiance, OH”, “Defiance, Ohio”, “Fort Defiance”, and “Winchester”
- Postal code: 43512
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mercy Defiance Hospital and Defiance County Courthouse.
Mercy Defiance Hospital
Hospital
Mercy Health Defiance Hospital is a 23-bed non-profit hospital in Defiance, Ohio in Defiance County owned and operated by Mercy Health.…
Defiance County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Defiance County Courthouse is located at 221 Clinton Street in Defiance, Ohio, United States.
Defiance Public Library
Library
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Defiance Public Library is a historic Carnegie library located in Defiance, Ohio. It was built in 1904 with funds from Andrew Carnegie and was designed by architects Wing & Mahurin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brunersburg.
Brunersburg
Hamlet
Brunersburg is a census-designated place in Defiance County, Ohio. Brunersburg is situated 2 miles northwest of Defiance.
Defiance
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Defiance Township, Defiance, Northwest Ohio, Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.2845° or 41° 17′ 4″ northLongitude
-84.3558° or 84° 21′ 21″ westPopulation
17,100Elevation
676 feet (206 metres)IATA airport code
DFIUnited Nations Location Code
US DFIOpen location code
86HQ7JMV+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 153874971OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5151861Wikidata ID
Q651108
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Defiance” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديفايانس، أوهايو”
- Arabic: “ديفايانس”
- Arabic: “ديفاينس”
- Basque: “Defiance”
- Catalan: “Defiance”
- Cebuano: “Defiance”
- Chechen: “Дифаэнс”
- Chinese: “Defiance”
- Chinese: “迪法恩斯”
- Czech: “Defiance”
- Dagbani: “Defiance”
- Danish: “Defiance”
- Dutch: “Defiance”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديفاينس”
- French: “Defiance”
- German: “Au Glaize”
- German: “Defiance”
- German: “Ensawacosa”
- German: “Fort Miamis”
- German: “Fort Winchester”
- German: “Grand Glaize”
- German: “Miami Fort”
- German: “Miamis Fort”
- German: “Tuendawie”
- German: “Twendiawie”
- Gilaki: “دفیانس (اؤهایؤ)”
- Gilaki: “دفیانس”
- Haitian: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Haitian: “Defiance”
- Hungarian: “Defiance”
- Ido: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Ido: “Defiance”
- Irish: “Defiance”
- Italian: “Defiance”
- Japanese: “ディファイアンス”
- Japanese: “デファイアンス (オハイオ州)”
- Kazakh: “Defïans”
- Kazakh: “Дефианс”
- Kazakh: “دەفىيانس”
- Kirghiz: “Дефианс”
- Korean: “디파이언스”
- Ladin: “Defiance”
- Luxembourgish: “Defiance”
- Malagasy: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Malagasy: “Defiance”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Defiance”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Defiance”
- Persian: “دفیانس، اوهایو”
- Persian: “دفیانس”
- Polish: “Defiance”
- Portuguese: “Defiance”
- Russian: “Дефайанс”
- Serbian: “Дефајанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Defiance”
- Slovak: “Defiance”
- Slovenian: “Defiance”
- South Azerbaijani: “دفیانس، اوهایو”
- Spanish: “Defiance (Ohio)”
- Spanish: “Defiance”
- Swedish: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Swedish: “Defiance”
- Tatar: “Дифаэнс (Огайо)”
- Tatar: “Дифаэнс”
- Turkish: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Turkish: “Defiance”
- Ukrainian: “Діфаєнс”
- Uzbek: “Defiance”
- Uzbek: “Дефианcе”
- Vietnamese: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Vietnamese: “Defiance”
- Volapük: “Defiance”
- Waray (Philippines): “Defiance, Ohio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Defiance”
- Welsh: “Defiance, Ohio”
- Welsh: “Defiance”
- “Defiance”
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