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6 unusual facts about Summit County


Blue River, Colorado

Blue River is a statutory town in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Dillon, Colorado

Dillon is a home rule municipality in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Frisco, Colorado

Frisco is a home rule municipality in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Montezuma, Colorado

The Town of Montezuma is a Statutory Town located in eastern Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Red Cliff, Colorado

As the first community in the Eagle Valley, it served temporarily as the first county seat of Eagle County (formed out of Summit County in 1883) until the relocation of the county seat to Eagle in 1921.

Silverthorne, Colorado

The Town of Silverthorne is a Home Rule Municipality that is the second most populous town in Summit County, Colorado.


Akron, Ohio, metropolitan statistical area

When the trail is fully complete, it will stretch about 100 miles from Downtown Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, though the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Summit County, Stark County and end in New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County.

In 2011, Summit County became the first of the counties to complete their section of the Towpath Trail stretching 33.4 miles from the Portage Lakes in the southern portion of the county, through the suburbs and downtown Akron, and finally through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Ferdinand A. Brader

From drawings that survive it is known that Brader's Ohio pictures were done in 9 different adjoining counties: Portage, Medina, Wayne, Stark, Summit, Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning and Tuscarawas continuing through 1895.

Kletting Peak

Kletting Peak is a mountain in Summit County, Utah, named in 1964 for Utah architect Richard K.A. Kletting (1858-1943).

Oliver Ocasek

Oliver Robert Ocasek (November 2, 1925 – June 25, 1999) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as President of the Ohio State Senate from 1979–1981 and serving as Senator from Summit County and the Twenty Seventh District from 1959 until 1986.


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Anthony DeVitis

DeVitis was appointed in December 2011 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Todd McKenney, who was appointed as Summit County Probate Court judge.

Carbon County, Utah

At the state level it was no less Democratic; in the 1992 gubernatorial election it was one of two counties (the other being Summit County) that voted for Democratic candidate Stewart Hanson over Republican Michael Leavitt.