Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Piqua, OH

Piqua is a city in Miami County, Ohio, on the Great Miami River about 27 miles north of Dayton.

Piqua's name comes from a Shawnee phrase translated as 'He has risen from the ashes,' tied to the legend of the Pekowi division of the Shawnee people.

The modern town was surveyed in 1807 as a seven-house village named Washington, renamed Piqua by the state legislature in 1816, and incorporated as a town in 1823.

Piqua grew rapidly with the Miami and Erie Canal between 1825 and 1845, and later with the railroads.

The Great Flood of 1913 devastated Piqua and neighboring Rossville, killing 49 people and causing about $1 million in damage.

In 1963 Piqua became home to the first municipally operated nuclear power plant in the United States, an Atomic Energy Commission demonstration reactor that operated until 1966.

Piqua was once a capital of American underwear manufacturing — 14 underwear companies were founded there starting in 1886 — and that heritage is why children's author Dav Pilkey set his Captain Underpants books in Piqua.

Piqua had 20,354 residents at the 2020 census, living in 8,494 households.

Piqua is home to Edison State Community College, established in 1973 as Ohio's first general and technical college.

Hartzell Propeller is headquartered in Piqua, and Evenflo, the maker of infant car seats and feeding products, has been among the city's largest employers.