CONNEAUT (kon'awt), a city in north-east Ohio, U.S.A., in Ashtabula county; at the mouth of the Conneaut river, on lake Erie. It is on Federal highway 20, and is served by the Bessemer and Lake Erie, the New York Central, and the Nickel Plate rail ways. The population in 1920 was 9,343; in 1930, 9,691 by the Federal census. It is a port of entry, and its fine harbour has a large traffic, chiefly in receipts of iron-ore and shipments of coal (11,388,873 tons in 1925, including car ferry). The city has railroad shops, canneries, tin-can and textile factories, tile works, tanneries, and various other manufacturing industries. Conneaut was settled in 1798, and was chartered as a city in 1898.