Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Forest Park, OH

Forest Park is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, and a suburb of Cincinnati, built almost entirely as a planned postwar community.

The city was founded in 1956, when developers Marvin Warner and Joseph Kanter bought 3,400 acres north of Cincinnati and sold the first homes that March.

Forest Park's land had originally been set aside in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration for a federal Greenbelt town; the neighboring village of Greenhills, opened in 1938, was the Greenbelt community actually built.

Long before development, the land was Shawnee territory farmed by pioneer families including Matthew Winton, whose Winton Plantation gave Winton Road its name.

Forest Park was incorporated as a village in 1961 and achieved city status in 1968.

From its early years Forest Park deliberately made itself an "open city," adopting resolutions and ordinances welcoming residents regardless of race, creed, or national origin, and its motto is "Positioned For Progress."

The 2020 census counted 20,189 people in 7,512 households in Forest Park, up from 18,720 residents in 2010, making it one of the most populous cities in Hamilton County.

At the 2020 census, about 56 percent of Forest Park's residents were Black or African American, one of the highest shares of any Ohio city of its size.

The city covers 6.48 square miles, all of it land.

The 2,555-acre Winton Woods, a Great Parks of Hamilton County park built around the 180-acre Winton Lake, lies partly inside Forest Park.