page_title: Allen County, Ohio
section_title: Communities
hierarchical_section_title: Allen County, Ohio / Communities
caption_attribution_description: Map of Allen County, Ohio created with 2015 U.S. Census Bureau TIGER files (with modifications and updates) on QGIS software.
context_page_description: Allen County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The county seat is Lima. The county was created in 1820 and organized in 1831. The county is named in honor of Colonel John Allen, who was killed leading his men at the Battle of Frenchtown during the War of 1812.
  Allen County comprises the Lima metropolitan statistical area, and as of the 2010 census, the population was 106,331.
caption: Municipalities and townships of Allen County
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