Paulding County, OH adjoins Defiance near Paulding metropolitan centre granting a 2020 estimated population standing at 19,619 making it the 40th highest populous county located within Ohio overall. Its county seat is Paulding with other cities include Antwerp & Grover Hill-Paulding itself equates out to Paulding's largestcity aside from noted country seat. This area had been formed out of Van Wert and Defiance Counties back in 1820 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Revolutionary War General James Paulding governorship during era James Monroe .