BUCYRUS, a city of Ohio, U.S.A. 62m. N. of Columbus, on the watershed of the State, at an elevation of about i,000f t. ; the county seat of Crawford county. It is on the Lincoln highway, and is served by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads. The population in 192o was 10,425; in 193o it was 10,027. Division offices and shops of the Ohio central lines of the New York Central are situated here, and there are diversified in dustries, with an output valued in 1925 at $6,081,237. Among the distinctive products are copper kettles, locomotive cranes, auto mobile hoists, metal mail-boxes and cabinets, manganese steel, aluminum and brass castings, children's garments, grave vaults, cotton-picking machines, road-rollers, clay and cement machinery, and hog and pig rings. The town pump, over a sulphur well dug in 1840, still stands in the public square. Bucyrus was settled in 1817; laid out in 1822; incorporated as a village and established as the county seat in 183o and chartered as a city in 1885. It is at the intersection of the old turnpikes from Ft. Wayne to Pittsburgh and from the Ohio river to the Lakes. Its name is said to have been invented by Col. James Kilbourne, a surveyor who assisted the founder (Samuel Norton) by prefixing the syllable "bu," to suggest "beautiful," to the name of Cyrus, whom he admired.