The station served its last passenger decades ago. Tyler said with a chuckle when he learned of the unusual honor. Smithville is right up the street, and they call it the heart of Wayne County. I guess it makes sense.'' Stark and Portage Major retail hubs. A buzzing college campus.
Portage County has a little bit of everything.
And it all revolves around a gray wood-shingled house and barn on Cleveland Road in Ravenna Township. A global positioning system computer puts the county's center of population in Bernard Few's side yard, right where a grove of trees and a small bog separate him from his neighbor. Some 28 miles to the southwest of this serene rural scene is a busy urban neighborhood near the 30th Street Plaza shopping center in Canton. Here you'll find Stark County's center of population, several paces west of an antenna tower that is primarily used by Canton's safety forces. So while Stark's center isn't open to the public, it is the only local population center that actually serves the general population.