Disappearing cities and villages of the Buckeye State: Akron, Ohio

It all started here.

The New York Times, 4/20/1977

The B.F. Goodrich Company, for example, founded in 1870 as this city's first tire company, ceased producing tires here two years ago. In March, 1944, most of its 17,000 hourly wageearners in Akron were tire workers. Today there are only 2,300 hourly workers at Goodrich facilities here out of a nationwide hourly work force of 16,000. 

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the nation's largest tire producer, had some 19,000 rubber workers in its Akron labor force in 1944. Today it has only 5,400 out of a total hourly work force of 34,000. The story is much the same for the other big producers here, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and the General Tire and Rubber Company.

Source:  Wikipedia

Akron's population peaked at 290,351 in 1960.  Its 2017 estimated population is 197,846 -- a drop of 92,505 (32%).

Located 40 miles south of Cleveland and 50 miles west of Youngstown, the City of Akron is the county seat of Summit County.  The county's population peaked at 542,889 in 2000, and its current estimated population is 541,228, a drop of 0.3%.

Other disappearing cities of the Buckeye State:
Cambridge.  (2/27/2019)
Cleveland.  (1/2/2019)
East Liverpool.  (2/18/2019)
Gallipolis.  (2/23/2019)
Ironton.  (2/24/2019)
Martins Ferry.  (2/21/2019)
Pomeroy.  (2/22/2019)
Portsmouth.  (2/25/2019)
Steubenville.  (2/20/2019)
Warren.  (1/18/2019)
Youngstown.  (1/9/2019)
Zanesville.  (2/26/2019)

Disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State

Aliquippa.  (1/12/2019)
Ambridge.  (1/17/2019)
Arnold.  (1/18/2019)
Braddock.  (1/19/2019)
Bradford, (1/20/2019)
Carbondale.  (1/21/2019)
Charleroi.  (1/22/2019)
Chester.  (1/23/2019)
Clairton.  (1/24/2019)
Coraopolis.  (1/25/2019)
Dickson City.  (1/26/2019)
Donora.  (1/27/2019)
Duquesne.  (1/28/2019)
Farrell.  (1/29/2019)
Harrisburg.  (2/12/2019)
Homestead.  (1/30/2019)
Johnstown.  (1/6/2019)
McKees Rocks.  (1/31/2019)
McKeesport.  (2/1/2019)
Monessen.  (2/2/2019)
Nanticoke.  (2/3/2019)
New Castle.  (2/4/2019)
New Kensington.  (2/5/2019)
Oil City.  (2/6/2019)
Pittsburgh.  (1/13/2019)
Pittston. (2/7/2019)
Scranton.  (1/14/2019)
Shamokin.  (2/8/2019)
Sharon.  (2/9/2019)
Steelton.  (2/11/2019)
Swissvale.  (2/13/2019)
Titusville.  (2/10/2019)
Uniontown.  (2/14/2019)
Washington.  (2/15/2019)
Willkes-Barre.  (2/16/2019)
Wiklinsburg.  (2/17/2018)

Other U.S. disappearing cities

Baltimore, Maryland.  (12/31/2018)
Benton Harbor, Michigan.  (1/15/2019)
Buffalo, New York, (1/8/2019)
Cairo, Illinois.   (1/5/2019)
Detroit, Michigan.  (1/1/2019)
East St. Louis, Illinois.  (1/11/2019)
Flint, Michigan.  (1/7/2019)
Gary, Indiana.  (1/4/2019)
St. Louis, Missouri.  (1/2/2019)
Wheeling, West Virginia.  (1/16/2019)