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Middletown was platted in 1802 by Stephen Vail, who laid out 52 lots on the east bank of the Great Miami River on land that was part of the 1788 Symmes Purchase.

Middletown was incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly on February 11, 1833, and became a city in 1886.

Middletown's name is usually explained either by its spot midway between Dayton and Cincinnati or by founder Stephen Vail's hometown of Middletown, New Jersey — historians still debate which is right.

Ground was broken for the Miami and Erie Canal at Middletown on July 21, 1825, in a ceremony attended by New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, and the canal went on to link the city with Cincinnati and Toledo.

Middletown became known as the 'Paper City' after paper mills opened along its canal hydraulic in the 1830s and 1840s, beginning with the Middletown Paper Mill.

The American Rolling Mill Company — Armco — was founded in 1899 and produced its first steel in Middletown in 1902, and under its later name, AK Steel, it remained the city's signature industry for more than a century.

Middletown was designated an All-America City in 1957.

Middletown straddles two counties — most of the city lies in Butler County with a portion in Warren County — and it is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, 29 miles northeast of Cincinnati and 20 miles southwest of Dayton.

Middletown's population was 50,987 at the 2020 census.

Middletown has about 21,422 households, and about 54% of its homes are owner-occupied, with a median owner-occupied home value of about $164,400, according to Census Bureau QuickFacts.