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Upper Sandusky is a city in and the county chair of Wyandot County, Ohio, United States, along the upper Sandusky River. The city lies approximately 59 miles (95 km) south of Toledo and 62 miles (100 km) north of Columbus. The population was 6,698 at the 2020 census.

The city was founded in 1843 and named for an earlier Wyandot village of the similar name, which was located nearby. It was named “Upper” because it is located close the headwaters of the Sandusky River, which flows into Lake Erie.

Upper Sandusky was a 19th-century Wyandot town named for its location at the headwaters of the Sandusky River in northwestern Ohio. This was the primary Wyandot town during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was sometimes plus known as Half-King’s Town, after Dunquat, the Wyandot “Half-King”. The town and the surrounding settlements, like Captain Pipe’s Town, were next door to allied taking into consideration the British at Fort Detroit. During the Crawford expedition of 1782, Pennsylvania militiamen sought to ruin the town, but were defeated en route.

After the war, in September 1783, a number of Native Americans met at Upper Sandusky and formed the Western Confederacy, a confederation expected to resist U.S. expansion into the Northwest Territory. The Northwest Indian War followed.