Clyde /ˈklaɪd/[6] is a city in Sandusky County, Ohio, United States, located 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Fremont.

The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Clyde as a Tree City USA.

The town is known for having served as inspiration for the setting of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 collection of short stories Winesburg, Ohio.

[7] In the 1700s, the area of Ohio, including present-day Clyde, was inhabited by the Wyandot tribe.

Claims that the first settler was Samuel Pogue are not entirely wrong as sometime during the war of 1812, Pogue drove a stake near the spring in the west part of Clyde with the intention of settling there after the war concluded.

After General Motors moved out, Krebs acquired their site in Clyde for his own operations.

[12] The buildings, by this time owned by Clyde Porcelain Steel, burned down on November 11, 1945.

President Donald Trump visited Whirlpool Corporation in Clyde on August 6th, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election campaign.

[14] In 2006, the Ohio Department of Health recognized that the incidence of child cancer cases in the Clyde area was abnormally high, and in 2007, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency started investigating possible causes.

[15] After the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency carried out soil tests in the Whirlpool Corporation's former corporate park, Whirlpool Park, in Green Springs, Ohio, it was apparent that soil on the property contained polychlorinated biphenyls.

In January 2016, the EPA reported that Whirlpool Park had been cleared of PCB contamination.

[25] Clean Air Radio Network, a Christian radio network broadcasting in Clyde, Findlay, and Coshocton, is owned and operated by Harvest Temple Christian Academy in Clyde.

[26] The town was the setting for the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael starring Winona Ryder.