Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in New Richmond, OH

New Richmond, also known as New Richmond on the Ohio, is a village in Clermont County in southwestern Ohio, sitting on the north bank of the Ohio River about 20 miles southeast of Cincinnati.

The village was laid out on September 19-22, 1814, by Jacob Light, a Revolutionary War veteran, and was reportedly named after Richmond, Virginia, the hometown of Light's nephew, who helped lay out the town.

In February 1816 Thomas Ashburn platted the adjoining village of Susanna, whose riverfront promenade survives today as Captain Ernest Wagner Park, and the Ohio General Assembly merged the two villages as New Richmond on January 11, 1828.

New Richmond was once the largest and most flourishing village in Clermont County, and it became the county seat in 1823.

During the steamboat era New Richmond was a major shipping terminus for farm produce bound for Cincinnati, and Clermont County became known as 'Cincinnati's Garden.'

In 1836 the abolitionist James G. Birney began publishing his newspaper The Philanthropist in New Richmond before moving it to Cincinnati, making the village an early center of abolitionist publishing.

Most of New Richmond lies on the Ohio River floodplain, and the Great Flood of 1937 - the worst disaster in village history - destroyed 250 of its 415 homes.

The village flooded badly again in March 1997, when about six feet of water filled Center Street and reached the homes of roughly two-thirds of its roughly 2,500 residents.

The 2020 census counted 2,727 people in New Richmond, up from 2,582 in 2010, when the village had 980 households and 1,133 housing units.

The village covers about 3.7 square miles across Ohio and Pierce townships and sits at Ohio River Mile 450.