Fairfield County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 122,759. Its county seat is Lancaster. Its name is a reference to the Fairfield area of the original Lancaster.
Fairfield County is part of the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 509 square miles (1,317 km²).505 square miles (1,308 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (9...
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Fairfield County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 122,759. Its county seat is Lancaster. Its name is a reference to the Fairfield area of the original Lancaster.
Fairfield County is part of the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 509 square miles (1,317 km²).505 square miles (1,308 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (9 km²) of it (0.69%) is water.
Fairfield County sits just on the edge of Ohio's Appalachian region. While the once-glaciated northern portion of the county is fairly flat, as one travels south along U.S. 33 one can easily recognize the foothills of a mountainous region beginning around the village of Carroll. Although not officially part of the state or federal definition of Appalachia, certain areas of Fairfield County—particularly south of U.S. 22—bear a distinctly Appalachian feel in both physical geography and demographics.
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