Bowling Green is the county seat of Wood County in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Bowling Green was 30,028. It is part of the Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University. A CSX line runs through town. Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, was incorporated as a town in 1855, and became a city in 1901. Bowling Green was settled by the families of Booth, Hartman, Hollington, Mackie, Manville, Martindale, Maule, Moore, Richards, Shively, St. Johns, Stauffer, Thurstin, Tracy, and Walker. With... the discovery of oil in the late 19th and early 20th century, Bowling Green experienced a boom. The wealth can still be seen in the downtown store fronts, and along Wooster Street where many of the oldest and largest homes were built. This was followed by an expansion of the automobile industry. In late 1922 or early 1923, Coats Steam Car moved to the area, but eventually went out of business. According to the BGSU library and an exhaustive study by a History Teaching Fellow, the 1920's brought a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to the city that flourished until the mid 1930's.
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| County: | Wood County |
| State: | Ohio |
| Population: | 28,775 |
| Area: | 10.2 sq. mi. |
| Time zone: | North American Eastern Time Zone |
| Also known as: | Bowling Green, Ohio, Wood County / Bowling Green city |