Elyria ( ə-LEER-ee-ə) is a city in and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 52,656. It is a principle city in the Cleveland metropolitan area. The city is home to Lorain County Community College.

The city’s reveal is derived from the surname of its founder, Heman Ely, and Illyria, the historical pronounce used by ancient Greeks and Romans to concentrate on to the western Balkans.
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The village of Elyria was founded in 1817 by Heman Ely, who built a log house, dam, gristmill, and sawmill on the village’s site along the Black River. Ely began to build more houses to accommodate European-American settlers migrating to what was, at that time, within Huron County, Ohio. By the era Ely died in 1852, Elyria had five churches, three grocery stores, three flour mills, a newspaper, and a population of beyond 1,500. Early postal sustain from Cleveland was provided by Artemis Beebe, a appendix who held the first deal to forward mail across this section of the Black River.

By the face of the 20th century, Elyria was a town of not quite 8,000. In 1908, Elyria Memorial Hospital was built. In the first half of the 20th century, the town developed some manufacturing, as competently as a range of retail businesses.