Findlay
a city and county-seat of Hancock co., O.; on the Toledo and Ohio Central, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and other railroads; 44 miles S. of Toledo. It is in the heart of the oil and gas fields of Ohio. It contains Findlay College, electric lights, electric railroads, several banks, and numerous daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. In the vicinity are rich beds of clay and vast deposits of gravel and sand. There are manufactories of glass, pressed bricks, furniture, wooden implements, nails, and an oil refinery, machine shops, foundries, extensive potteries, and rolling mills. Pop. (1910) 14,858; (1920) 17,021.