13 Ohio Towns Locals Say Are Dying — And Why Nobody's Saving Them

Ohio has nearly twelve million people — and in the last four years, roughly two out of every three towns and villages in the state lost population. This countdown looks at 13 places where the mills closed, the mines played out, the river traffic thinned, and nothing ever came to replace them. From a village that ran a million-dollar budget off a few hundred yards of interstate, to a steel town gutted in a single morning, to a place that lost everything in one night, these are the Ohio towns locals say are dying. The real question isn't how they got here — it's why nobody's coming to save them.