Ironton
Ironton is a city in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat.
Ironton is a city in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 10,571 at the 2020 census. Located in southernmost Ohio along the Ohio River, it is 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Huntington, West Virginia, within the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. The city's name is a contraction of "iron town", stemming from its long ties to the iron industry. It also had one of the first professional football teams, the Ironton Tanks.
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Worth seeing in and around Ironton
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ironton–Russell Bridge
The Ironton–Russell Bridge can refer to either one of two bridges that carry/carried traffic along the Ohio River between Ironton, Ohio and Russell, Kentucky in the United States. The original blue cantilever Ironton–Russell Bridge, opened in 1922 and closed in 2016, carried two lanes of traffic and a narrow sidewalk.
2.9 km · bridge in Ohio and Russell, Kentucky · Wikipedia - 02Ohio University Southern Campus
Ohio University Southern is a satellite campus of Ohio University in Ironton, Ohio. The campus began in 1956 when Ohio University hosted college-level classes in Ironton High School with an initial enrollment of 90 students.
1.1 km · campus of Ohio University located in Ironton, Ohio · Wikipedia - 03Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall
The Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall, built in 1892, is an historic building located at 401 Railroad Street in Ironton, Ohio. Designed by noted Ohio architect Joseph W. Yost in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture, it was built to serve as a Grand Army of the Republic memorial and the meeting hall of Dick Lambert Post No.
3.1 km · building in Ironton, Ohio · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ironton
- Airports
- John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 166 km · Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG), 184 km · Louisville Muhammad Ali (SDF), 271 km
- Stations
- Ashland Regional Airport, 7.8 km
- Columbus → Ironton161 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · $15–20
- Cincinnati / Covington → Ironton168 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · $18–25
- Louisville → Ironton270 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · $25–35
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ironton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ironton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Ironton
- Worthingtoncity in Kentucky, United States7.3 km
- Russellcity in the U.S. state of Kentucky3 km
- Ashland Commercial Historic Districthistoric district in Ashland, Kentucky4.5 km
- Downtown Ironton Historic Districthistoric district located in downtown Ironton, Ohio2.8 km