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About Port Clinton

The Port Clinton area was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s. The city itself was founded in 1837, and incorporated as a village on March 7, 1842. It became the county seat of Ottawa County when that county was organized in 1843. Port Clinton is located at (41.590569, -82.898349). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water; it lies at an elevation of above sea level along Lake Erie's shoreline with Canada across from Put-in-Bay Island where Ohio State University maintains its Stone Laboratory for geological research into earthquakes and other natural disasters such as tsunamis or volcanoes around world including Japan's 2011 earthquake/tsunami disaster..