Huron is a city in Erie County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,149 at the 2010 census. It is share of the Sandusky, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Huron Township surrounds the City of Huron.

Huron Township was at the center of the “Firelands” region of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The first surviving settler in the area that became Huron Township was a Quebec-born trapper, trader and interpreter named John Baptiste Flammand (or, “Flemming”; and often misspelled “Flemmond”), who received a trading post nearly 1805, approx. two miles inland on the east bank of the Huron River. Other French traders had preceded him, including Gabriel Hunot in the 1780s.

Huron Township was time-honored in 1809. Huron Village was later customary between 1821 and 1824, when a town plat was surveyed, and harbor facilities at the mouth of the Huron River were developed; and the village speedily became a major shipbuilding middle in the 1830s. [The current community of Huron is sometimes mistaken to have been the thesame as the “town plat of Huron” (also known as “the outdated County Seat” village), which was acknowledged about 1814, and was actually within the gift Milan Township (formerly known as Avery Township before 1821).]

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad greatly expanded Huron’s port on the east bank of the Huron River coming on in 1880. The first cargo of iron ore at the W&LE docks was traditional May 21, 1884. The port is yet in use today, accepting cargoes of iron ore and limestone from lake freighters. Huron was then the house port of several classified ad fishing fleets in the past unbridled lake pollution decimated the industry on Lake Erie by the to the lead 1970s. Water vibes in Lake Erie has greatly improved for that reason of strong environmental controls since next and sport fishing has increased in popularity in the area. However, the Lake faces new threats from algal blooms and several invasive species such as zebra mussels and Asian carp that may impact sport fishing in the future.