Norwalk is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county chair of Huron County. The population was 17,012 at the 2010 census. The city is the middle of the Norwalk Micropolitan Statistical Area and ration of the Cleveland-Akron-Canton Combined Statistical Area. Norwalk is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Lake Erie, 51 miles (82 km) west/southwest of Cleveland, 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Toledo, and 58 miles (93 km) west/northwest of Akron.

On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut, was burned by the British Tories under Lieutenant General Tryon. A committee of the General Assembly estimated the losses to the inhabitants at $116,238.66. Later, the federal paperwork gave an Place in the Western Reserve of Ohio as reward for those time-honored losses.

On May 30, 1800, the United States ceded the house titles to the “fire sufferers” and the representatives of the Reserve transferred the political jurisdiction to the general government. The Indian title was extinguished by treaty on July 4, 1805, on payment of $18,916.67; and in 1806, 13 men arrived to make the first survey of the Firelands.

On November 9, 1808, a bureau of prominent citizens from Ridgefield, Norwalk, New Haven, Greenwich, and Fairfield met at the courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut, as the Board of Directors of the Proprietors of the 500,000 acres (2,000 km) of estate lying south of Lake Erie, called the “Sufferers Land”. They passed a definite naming many of the townships in this area known as the “Firelands of Ohio”.