CIRCLEVILLE, a city of Ohio, U.S.A., on the Scioto river, 25m. S. of Columbus; the county seat of Pickaway county. It is on Federal highway 23, and is served by the Norfolk and Western and the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 193o wa s 7,369. Canned vegetables, pork products, straw paper for boxes and seal ing-wax are among its distinctive manufactures. An annual pump kin show is held.
The city was laid out (1806) within a circular embankment of prehistoric origin, with an octagonal court-house in the centre and circular streets around it. The court-house was burned in 1841, and no trace remains of the original plan or of the ancient earth works. The city was chartered in 1853.