Springfield

Springfield, city, seat (1818) of Clark county, west-central Ohio, U.S., on Buck Creek and Mad River, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Dayton. The original settlement by James Demint and migrant Kentuckians in 1799 was on the site of the village of Old Piqua (birthplace of Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief). It was laid out in 1801 and probably named by the wife of Simon Kenton, an Indian scout who had settled there, for the springs...