Geauga County, Ohio
county in Ohio, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geauga County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the 2020 census, 95,397 people lived there.[1] The county seat is Chardon.[2]
It is named for a Onondaga or Seneca language word meaning 'raccoon',[3] originally the name of the Grand River.
Geauga County is part of the Cleveland-Elyria, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2008, Forbes Magazine ranked Geauga County as the fourth best place in America to raise a family.[4]
About 20% of the county's population is Amish, as of 2017.[5]