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Holiday City is a village in Jefferson Township, Williams County, in Ohio's far northwestern corner — and it is the smallest village in Williams County.

Holiday City is one of Ohio's youngest villages: 23 local landowners filed the incorporation petition on July 16, 1991, and Williams County commissioners granted it, carving the village out of Jefferson Township.

The village's incorporation was litigated all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court, which on September 28, 1994, in In re Petition for Incorporation of the Village of Holiday City (70 Ohio St.3d 365), ruled that township trustees had no standing to challenge the incorporation.

Holiday City had just 48 residents at the 2020 census, down slightly from 52 at the 2010 census.

Despite its tiny population, Holiday City spreads over about 2.69 square miles, giving it a population density of only around 19 people per square mile — farmland and open space rather than a compact town.

The village sits near the Ohio Turnpike and U.S. Route 20, and much of its development centers on a large Menard, Inc. distribution facility; state auditor records show Menard contributed payments toward the Ohio Water Development Authority loan that built the village's water and sewer infrastructure.

Holiday City households are small, averaging about 2.3 people per household in recent Census Bureau survey estimates, and roughly seven in ten homes are owner-occupied.

Residents report predominantly German ancestry — about 78 percent in Census survey data — reflecting the German farm heritage of Williams County, and the village uses ZIP codes 43543 and 43554.