Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Silver Grove, KY

Silver Grove is a home rule-class city in northeastern Campbell County, Kentucky, on the south bank of the Ohio River across from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Silver Grove was founded in 1911 as a planned railroad town for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, built around the C&O's Stevens Yard, a major freight terminal that staged coal hauled from the mines of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.

A 1914 newspaper described Silver Grove as a modern town because it already boasted electric lights, a public water and sewer system, a modernized fire department, a school, and a spacious park.

The Silver Grove post office opened in 1913, and the city was incorporated in 1950 as the railroad moved to give up its company town; Gerald Losey was selected as its first mayor in 1951.

The 2020 census counted 1,154 residents in Silver Grove, while the 2010 census counted 1,102 residents living in 417 households.

After rail operations shrank, the former yard site was redeveloped with a giant drywall plant that opened in 2000; today operated by CertainTeed, it is the largest gypsum wallboard plant in North America, employing about 270 people on a 200-acre site.

Silver Grove has its own independent K-12 school district, and its teams are known as the Big Trains and Lady Trains — Silver Grove is the only school in Kentucky whose mascot is an inanimate object, a nod to its railroad heritage.

In 1980 the Silver Grove school was slated to be absorbed into the Campbell County school system as an elementary school, but a local civic campaign kept the independent district alive.

Kentucky Route 8, known locally as the Mary Ingles Highway, runs through Silver Grove along the Ohio River.

Silver Grove dissolved its own small police department in 2015 because of costs, and the Campbell County Police Department now patrols the city.