Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Oakwood, OH

Oakwood is a small, affluent residential city in Montgomery County, completely landlocked by Dayton and Kettering across just 2.19 square miles — this is the Dayton-area Oakwood, not the Paulding County village of the same name.

Oakwood was incorporated in 1908, and NCR founder John Henry Patterson is considered the 'Father of Oakwood.'

Oakwood had 9,572 residents at the 2020 census; at the 2010 census it had 3,543 households with an average household size of 2.58 people.

Oakwood's most famous resident was Orville Wright, whose mansion Hawthorn Hill, completed in 1914 on 17 acres at Harman and Park Avenues, was his home until his death in 1948 and is now a National Historic Landmark.

After the Great Dayton Flood of 1913 devastated downtown Dayton, developers marketed Oakwood lots as sitting '275 feet higher than the intersection of Third and Main Streets,' and the population soared past 6,000 by 1930.

Oakwood adopted the council-manager form of government in 1932, and it remains in place today.

Oakwood runs a consolidated Department of Public Safety, created in 1924, in which every officer is certified as a police officer, firefighter, and EMS provider — one of the oldest continuing consolidated departments in the United States.

During World War II, Oakwood's Runnymede Playhouse secretly hosted Unit IV of the Dayton Project, part of the Manhattan Project that produced polonium for the first atomic weapons.

Oakwood High School earned the highest performance index of any high school in Ohio in the 2016–17 school year — 92.0 out of 100, the only school in the state above 90.

Orville Wright served 12 years on the board of Oakwood's Wright Memorial Public Library, the Tudor-style library on Far Hills Avenue that opened in 1939.