Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Clarington, OH

Clarington is a village in Monroe County, Ohio, sitting on the banks of the Ohio River along State Route 7.

According to Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, Clarington was laid out in 1822 by David Pierson, who named it after his daughter Clarinda.

In 1833 Clarington was described as having just two stores, one tavern, one physician, and ten residential houses, but by the mid-1800s it had boomed into a river port town of nearly 1,500 residents.

The Mozena Brothers Boat Yard in Clarington designed and built many western river steamboats during the village's river-port heyday, when it also had a cigar factory and lodgings serving river traffic.

Geographically, Clarington was the last port on the Ohio River before crossing the Mason-Dixon line, which lies just a few miles south of the village.

The Ohio Valley River Museum in Clarington preserves the history of the village's steamboat era and the river industries that built it.

The population was 280 at the 2020 census, down from 384 people in 165 households counted in 2010 — a fraction of its mid-1800s river-boom size.

In recent years Clarington has become a center of oil and gas activity following drilling discoveries in the Utica and Marcellus shale formations.