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Wooster is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio approximately SSW of Cleveland and SW of Akron. Wooster is noted as the location of The College of Wooster. Wooster was established in 1808 by John Bever, William Henry, and Joseph Larwill, and named after David Wooster, a general in the American Revolutionary War.〔"(Wooster )." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 14 Mar 2008〕 The population was 24,811 at the 2000 census and 26,119 at the 2010 Census. The city is the largest in Wayne County, and the center of the Wooster Micropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau). Wooster has the main branch and administrative offices of the Wayne County Public Library. Wooster is the birthplace of the Compton brothers: Arthur Compton, physics Nobel Prize winner and chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, Karl Taylor Compton, physicist and president of MIT, and Wilson Martindale Compton, diplomat and president of Washington State University. In 2013, Foreign Direct Investment magazine reviewed Wooster's business friendliness and strategy, and has ranked it amongst North America's Top 10 Micro Cities 2013/2014.〔http://www.the-daily-record.com/local%20news/2013/04/21/wooster-wayne-named-in-fdi-magazine-s-american-cities-of-the-future-ranking〕〔http://www.clevelandplus.com/News-and-Press/ThePlus/2011/May/Wooster.aspx〕 ==Geography and geology== Wooster is located at (40.809301, -81.937258). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt )〕 The city rests at 997 feet above sea level. The local bedrock consists of the Cuyahoga Formation (shale) and the overlying Logan Formation (sandstone and conglomerate), both Lower Carboniferous and rich in fossils. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wooster, Ohio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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