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Finneytown is a census-designated place in Springfield Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, an unincorporated suburb just north of Cincinnati; as a CDP it has no city government of its own and is governed by the township.

Finneytown is named for Ebenezer Ward Finney, a Revolutionary War soldier who served in the 4th New York Regiment; the land was bought from John Cleves Symmes in April 1795 by his grandfather, the Reverend Ebenezer Ward, and Finney inherited it, moved his family there in 1800, and farmed it until his death in 1822.

The 2020 census counted 12,399 people in Finneytown living in 4,880 households, packed into just under 4 square miles.

Finneytown is home to St. Xavier High School, one of the largest private schools in Ohio, and to the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science.

Pringles potato chips owe their name to Finneytown: the chips were named after Pringle Drive, a street in the community.

Every June, Finneytown hosts the Panegyri Greek Festival at the Holy Trinity-Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, an annual celebration of Greek food, music, and dancing that began in 1975 and is one of the Cincinnati area's largest ethnic festivals.

Finneytown suburbanized rapidly after World War II: its school-age population grew by 368 percent between 1948 and 1958 as farms gave way to subdivisions and shopping centers.

That boom led to the opening of the Finneytown Secondary Campus in 1958, and today the Finneytown Local School District operates just two campuses, Finneytown Elementary for grades K-6 and the secondary campus for grades 7-12.

Winton Road, one of Finneytown's main streets, was paved in 1926, among the first roads in the area to be paved.

Notable people from Finneytown include Olympic gold medalists Amanda Borden in gymnastics and Joe Hudepohl in swimming, former General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt, and Justin Jeffre of the boy band 98 Degrees.