Editing Scouting in Ohio (section)

===Heart of Ohio Council ===
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| name =Heart of Ohio Council (#450)
| image =
| type = council
| owner =[[Boy Scouts of America]]
| headquarters =[[Ashland, Ohio]]
| coords =
| f-date = 1994
| defunct = 2017
| members =
| chiefscouttitle =President
| chiefscout = Daniel DeVille
| chiefscouttitle2 =Commissioner
| chiefscout2 = John 'JJ' Harbaugh, Jr
| chiefscouttitle3 =Scout Executive
| chiefscout3 = Brad Bodoh
| website =NA
}}
'''Heart of Ohio Council''' (#450) was created in 1994.  It was composed of four districts. Geographically, the Heart of Ohio Council served the youth of Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Marion, Morrow, Richland, and Wyandot Counties in North Central Ohio.<ref>[https://www.bsa-heartofohio.org/ Ohio Council Boy Scouts of America Cica 1998 - 2007]</ref>

==== History ====
The Heart of Ohio Council was officially organized in 1994 with the merger of the Harding Area, the Johnny Appleseed Area and the Firelands Area Councils, and was one of the largest geographic councils within the state of Ohio. In 2017, the Heart of Ohio Council was dissolved and split, with the northern counties of Erie, Huron and Lorain joining the newly formed Lake Erie Council, and the remaining southern counties joining the Buckeye Council.

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{{chart| | JAA | | FAC | | HAC | |JAA=Johnny Appleseed Council #453<br />renamed 1926 |FAC=Firelands Area Council #458<br />renamed 1925 |HAC=Harding Area Council #443<br />founded 1926}}
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{{chart| | |`|-|-| HOO |-|-|'| |HOO=Heart of Ohio Council #450<br />merged January 1, 1994}}
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==== Organization ====
*Johnny Appleseed Trail District
*The Firelands District
*Great Frontier District
*Harding Area District

==== Camps ====
The Heart of Ohio Council operated one reservation known as Firelands Scout Reservation, which is now run by the Lake Erie Council. It is located 5 miles west of Oberlin, in Wakeman, on 455 acres of land. The reservation holds two camps, Camp Avery Hand (the Cub Scout camp) and Camp Wyandot (the Scouts BSA camp). Each individual camp is named for former camps once a part of the original councils that merged to form the Heart of Ohio Council.

The reservation is about 70% wooded. There is a 23-acre lake with an island connected by a peninsula on Camp Wyandot. The camp has operated as a Scout camp since 1938. Cabin and tent camping are available.

==== Order of the Arrow ====
*Portage Lodge 619
[http://www.portage619.org portage619.org]