City-Owned Utility
Electricity in Wapakoneta, OH
Served by City of Wapakoneta Electric
Wapakoneta receives electricity from a city-owned municipal utility, not one of Ohio's investor-owned utilities. Municipal utility customers are not eligible for Ohio's retail electric choice program — you cannot switch to a competitive supplier through the PUCO Apples-to-Apples comparison tool. Your rates are set directly by City of Wapakoneta Electric.
Contact Wapakoneta City Hall for current rates and billing information.
History of Wapakoneta
In 1748, the French built a trading post (Fort au Glaize, also known as "Wapakoneta Trading Post" or "AuGlaize Trading Post") about a half-mile northeast of the future site of Wapakoneta. After being re-established in 1760 as "Francis Duchouquet's Trading Post," the British later took over this territory after the French ceded it following defeat in the Seven Years' War. Neither they nor the later Americans (after independence) built a succeeding fort here. French-Canadian traders later reestablished a trading post at the site in 1784, which was abandoned after the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.The city itself was established in the 1780s as a Shawnee settlement called "Waughpaughkonnetta" (possibly derived from the Shawnee word "Wa-po'kanite," meaning "the place of white bones"). After the Shawnee tribe was removed to Kansas in 1831, Wapakoneta was platted in 1833 and later named as the seat of Auglaize County in 1848.The Armstrong Air & Space Museum opened in Wapakoneta in 1972.
Wikipedia →Wapakoneta by the Numbers
- Population
- 17,983
- Median Age
- 42 yrs
- Median Household Income
- $72,965/yr
- Median Home Value
- $181,700
- Homeownership Rate
- 74%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates (2023)
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