This particular area of land immediately surrounding Fort Miami was considered to be of strategic importance by the United States government representatives.
As a result of the battle, the Treaty of Greenville was signed, which ceded much of southern and eastern Ohio to the United States.
In addition, Article 3 ceded a number of other tracts, including #8: "One piece twelve miles square, at the British fort on the Miami of the Lake, at the foot of the rapids.
[7] Under the Act of 1816, Joseph Wampler surveyed the riverfront into long lots of about 160 acres (0.65 km2) each, numbered 1 to 93, and officially called "River Tracts".
[8] Download coordinates as: The tract encompasses portions of Wood and Lucas counties, including Perrysburg, Maumee, and south suburban Toledo, Ohio.