Lodi, Ohio

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Lodi is a village in Medina County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,061 at the 2000 census.

1 History
2 Facts
3 Geography
4 Demographics
5 Education
6 Popular Culture
7 External links

[edit] History

Founded in 1811, Lodi is the oldest settlement in Medina county. It was originally called Harrisville, in honor of the family that founded it. It was later renamed to Lodi, the Indian chief who lived nearby; to prevent confusion with another village in Ohio. Ainsworth Street, part of the 'Downtown Circle', is named after Chief Lodi's Daughter.

[edit] Facts

Redfield, a pioneer to Lodi, sculpted the modern route to Medina through trees. It was later deemed too curvy, so when the government put in a route, they straightened it out and made present day route 42. Redfield St. Is named after him.

Lodi is the western endpoint of Interstate 76, where the road terminates at its junction with Interstate 71

Every year Lodi hosts the Sweet Corn Festival, occurring mid month in July. Festivities begin with a large parade through the town square. This is followed by three fun-filled days of fair food, rides for the kiddies and sweet corn brought in from Marietta, Ohio and Central Indiana. The featured event is the popular Tug-O-War.

[edit] Geography

Lodi is located at 41°1′59″N, 82°0′42″W (41.033059, -82.011774)^GR1, along the East Fork of the Black River.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 5.5 km² (2.1 mi²). 5.5 km² (2.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.47% is water.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 3,061 people, 1,274 households, and 789 families residing in the village. The population density was 557.5/km² (1,444.5/mi²). There were 1,341 housing units at an average density of 244.2/km² (632.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.50% White, 0.03% African American, 0.36% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.07% from other races, and 0.88% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49% of the population.

There were 1,274 households out of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.2% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.0% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 3.05.

In the village the population was spread out with 25.6% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.1 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $32,679, and the median income for a family was $43,333. Males had a median income of $32,882 versus $21,014 for females. The per capita income for the village was $16,512. About 8.3% of families and 10.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.5% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over.

[edit] Education

Lodi Primary School is for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first and second graders. Grades three and four are sent to Seville Intermediate School, and fifth and sixth graders attend Westfield Upper Elementary. The communities of Chatham, Lafayette, Westfield Center, Seville, and Lodi combine together to form Cloverleaf Middle School and Cloverleaf High School.

[edit] Popular Culture

"Lodi" is the title of a track from Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 album Green River. Although songwriter John Fogerty wrote the song about being trapped in Lodi, California, about 75 miles from his hometown of El Cerrito, California, he has admitted in interviews that he had never actually been there, and picked its name for the song's title based on a small town in Ohio that he had visited in his youth.

Lodi favorite son is media dynamo "Dave Dial". Dial, raised in the village of Lodi and a 1983 graduate of Cloverleaf, disassembled 40 year old broadcasting entity WWST in September of 1988. In its place he created WKVX, still broadcasting (2006) in Northeast Ohio professional terrestrial broadcast radio for nearly 20 years. In the mid-90's, Dial invented, created and served as Editor-in-Chief of the golf magazine "On the Green". In 1997, Dial joined the sixth largest Internet company in the world in eUniverse based in Los Angeles, California where he oversaw The eUniverse Sports Network, serving as General Manager, through 9-11-2001.

Today (2006), he owns land in the village of, and resides in the village of, Lodi, OH. At the age of 40, Dial re-pursued his initial love of radio and accepted a position at fifty two thousand watt WQKT where he broadcasts each weekday in afternoon drive (2006).

He resides with his daughter, Crystal Autumn Dial (born 09-25-93) and has been divorced twice.