Gypsum (Ohio)

Ottawa County

39-32788

Gypsum, by locals " sinkhole " or called " God's Country ", is a settlement on municipal Wi area ( unincorporated community) in the eastern Portage Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. Gypsum is located south of the mouth of the Portage River on the shore of Sandusky Bay of Lake Erie. Although it is community- free, it has a post office with the zip code 43433rd

The children of the families from Gypsum visit the schools in Port Clinton School District.

Economy

The area got its name from the plaster ( gypsum English ), which is mined here. The gypsum mining is the engine of the economy and the population growth of the land. The extraction sites, which are distributed over the whole area of Gypsum, will lead to karst phenomena in the form of sinkholes. Therefore, the entire section, especially the main mining and loading areas, often referred to simply by the inhabitants as sinkhole ( doline ). The United States Gypsum Company has their headquarters here your job is next to the gypsum mining and the monitoring of the water balance and the earth movements. For freight transport and transport of gypsum mineral, the area is accessible by a railway line. The dolomite containing gypsum Gypsum is used in Ohio and surrounding states as a fertilizer in agriculture. The floor can be supplied not only with calcium, but also magnesium.