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Latitude: 40.98777 to 41.15604
Longitude: -81.43774 to -81.64398

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Area code(s): 216, 234, 330
Zip Code(s): 44301, 44302, 44303, 44304, 44305, 44306, 44307, 44308, 44309, 44310, 44311, 44312, 44313, 44314, 44315, 44316, 44317, 44319, 44320, 44321, 44322, 44325, 44326, 44328, 44333, 44334, 44372, 44393, 44396, 44398, 44399
Population: 217,074


  
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Akron was formerly known as the "Rubber capital of the World", and before that, as the original home of Quaker Oats, and before that, as a pottery works. Built right on the edge of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Akron really grew by selling gravity. It happens to be right on the shortest possible line drawn between the Cuyahoga River (connecting to Lake Erie), and the Tuscarawas River (connecting to the Ohio River and ultimately to the Gulf of Mexico.) The Ohio & Erie Canal (which can be seen downtown and throughout the Cuyahoga Valley National Park) connecting the two was inevitable, and is the primary reason Akron grew just where it did.

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