Wood County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 132,248. Its county seat is Bowling Green. The county was named for Captain Eleazer D. Wood, the engineer for General William Henry Harrison's army, who built Fort Meigs in the War of 1812. Wood County is part of the Toledo, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its diagonal northwest border is formed by the Maumee River, which has its mouth at Maumee Bay on Lake Erie.
Wood County Courthouse and Jail in Bowling Green, Ohio
The main branch of the Wood County District Public Library
Way Public Library, 1892
Bowling Green is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Ohio, United States, located 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Toledo. The population was 30,808 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Toledo metropolitan area and a member of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University.
Downtown Bowling Green, Ohio as seen from the intersection of Main St. and Wooster St.
Workers at the Universal Machine Co. in Bowling Green, Ohio producing materials for the Signal Corps during World War I.
A wind turbine outside of Bowling Green, Ohio.
The Wood County Public Library