The "Fire Lands" are the western most one-half million acres of the Connecticut Western Reserve, set aside by the legislature of Connecticut in 1792 as compensation by those Sufferers whose homes and farms were burned out by British troops and loyalists led by Gens. Wm. Tyron and Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. This area of Ohio comprised what is now the whole of Erie and Huron counties, Danbury and most of Catawba Island townships in Ottawa County and Ruggles Township in Ashland County. The Fire Lands is steeped in history.