page_title: Ross County, Ohio
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Ross County, Ohio / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Looking eastward along Ohio State Route 180 in Green Township of Ross County, Ohio, slightly east of Dry Run Road. Picture taken by Nyttend on Christmas Day 2006.
context_page_description: Ross County is a county in the Appalachian region of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 78,064. Its county seat is Chillicothe, the first and third capital of Ohio. Established on August 20, 1798, the county is named for Federalist Senator James Ross of Pennsylvania.
  Ross County comprises the Chillicothe, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH Combined Statistical Area.
context_section_description: The Scioto River flows southward through the east-central part of the county. Paint Creek drains the lower central part of the county, flowing eastward to its terminus with the Scioto at a point southeast of Chillicothe. The county terrain consists of frequent wooded hills, with the intermediate level areas devoted to agriculture. The county's highest point is Farrell Hill, six miles (10 km) northeast of Bainbridge. The county has a total area of 693 square miles (1,790 km²), of which 689 square miles (1,780 km²) is land and 3.8 square miles (9.8 km²) (0.6%) is water. Ross County is the second-largest county by land area in Ohio, after Ashtabula County, as well as the fifth-largest by total area.
caption: Countryside northeast of Chillicothe on State Route 180
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "IM000161.JPG", "Image Make": "Hewlett-Packard", "Image Model": "Photosmart M407", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "1.02_O", "Image DateTime": "2006:12:25 14:55:16", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Copyright": "Copyright 2003-2004", "Image ExifOffset": "266", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "536873024/68223489", "Thumbnail YResolution": "25267728/134226049", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "18418", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4520", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/128", "EXIF FNumber": "291/100", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2006:12:25 14:55:16", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2006:12:25 14:55:16", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "660781/241968", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "7", "EXIF ApertureValue": "1541/500", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "1541/500", "EXIF SubjectDistance": "11/4", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Average", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "25/4", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2272", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1704", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF GainControl": "223", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Hard", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "3", "EXIF Tag 0xA421": "5", "EXIF Tag 0xA422": "[524, 100, 0, 0, 903, 863, 818, 772]", "EXIF Tag 0xA423": "b'\\x87\\x03_\\x032\\x03\\x04\\x03\\xd8\\x02\\xae\\x02\\x8a\\x02l\\x02U\\x02D\\x02, ... ]", "EXIF Tag 0xA424": "e", "EXIF Tag 0xA425": "[942, 731, 1000, 1073, 947, 871, 107, 0, 2, 1, 43, 0]", "EXIF Tag 0xA426": "[107, 0, 2, 1, 43, 0, 84, 148, 3, 104, 10, 1, 1, 9999, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... ]", "EXIF Tag 0xA427": "[]", "EXIF Tag 0xA428": "[]", "EXIF Tag 0xA429": "[104, 96, 0, 0, 62392, 2537, 192, 105]", "EXIF Tag 0xA42A": "1", "EXIF Tag 0xA42B": "0", "EXIF Tag 0xA42C": "524", "EXIF Tag 0xA42D": "100", "EXIF Tag 0xA42E": "[]", "EXIF Tag 0xA42F": "2", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "4604"}