Wayland, Ohio

Unincorporated community in Portage County, Ohio
Unincorporated area in Ohio, United States
41°09′38″N 81°04′16″W / 41.16056°N 81.07111°W / 41.16056; -81.07111CountryUnited StatesStateOhioCountyPortageTownshipParisNamed forWayland HoytElevation
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942 ft (287 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code
44285
Area code(s)330, 234FIPS code39-81998GNIS feature ID1065458[1]

Wayland is an unincorporated community of Paris Township in Portage County, Ohio, United States.[2] It has a post office with the ZIP code 44285.[3] The community is part of the Akron metropolitan area.

It was founded as Newport and was a stop along the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. It was later called Parisville and eventually Cyclone. Because there was some confusion for railroad passengers when the town of Cyclone was announced, townspeople changed the community's name to Wayland in 1900, after Wayland Hoyt, a Baptist minister there at the time.[4][2]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wayland, Ohio
  2. ^ a b "Wayland, OH Community Profile". OH HomeTownLocator. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
  3. ^ "Search Results for ZIP code 44285". "Zipinfo". Retrieved December 20, 2007.
  4. ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 139.
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