Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Sidney, OH

Sidney is a city in west-central Ohio and the county seat of Shelby County - in fact, it is the only city in the entire county - about 36 miles north of Dayton on Interstate 75.

Sidney was founded in 1819 on a 70-acre parcel along the west side of the Great Miami River donated by pioneer Charles Starrett to serve as the new county seat.

Sidney is named after Sir Philip Sidney, the English poet and statesman, and it leans into the literary theme - its elementary schools are named for writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier, earning Sidney the nickname 'Writer City'.

Sidney was connected to Ohio's trade network by the Miami and Erie Canal, built between 1825 and 1837, and canal boats carried Shelby County farm products toward Cincinnati and Toledo until 1913.

Sidney had a population of 20,589 at the 2020 census, living in 8,535 households.

Sidney's Court Square is anchored by the 1881 Second Empire Shelby County Courthouse and the 1877 Gothic Revival Monumental Building, raised in memory of the county's Civil War dead.

Sidney is home to the People's Federal Savings and Loan Association building of 1918, designed by famed architect Louis Sullivan - mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright - and designated a National Historic Landmark.

Sidney's Big Four Bridge, a massive concrete railroad viaduct built for the 'Big Four' Railroad, has carried trains over the city since 1924.

Sidney planned its parks early: a 1950s comprehensive plan set out to put a park within a half-mile of every home, producing 14 neighborhood parks plus the 180-acre Tawawa Park nature area.

Sidney was named an All-America City in 1964, and in 2009 it became the subject of the documentary film '45365' - named for its own ZIP code.