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Trotwood is a city in Montgomery County and a suburb of Dayton, with a population of 23,070 at the 2020 census spread across about 30.5 square miles.

Trotwood was originally called Higgins Station and was platted under that name in 1854; the Village of Trotwood was incorporated in 1901 from portions of Madison Township.

In 1996 the village of Trotwood and surrounding Madison Township merged into a single city — a merger so complete that one Trotwood neighborhood, Townview, is entirely surrounded by the city of Dayton.

Census Bureau surveys count about 10,799 households in Trotwood, and the city is majority Black, with about 65.5% of residents identifying as Black or African American alone.

Trotwood was the home of Hara Arena, the 5,500-seat arena complex that hosted the Dayton Gems hockey team and the annual Dayton Hamvention amateur radio convention — which drew more than 25,000 visitors in its final year at Hara — from 1964 until the complex closed in August 2016.

Wayne Gretzky played his first professional hockey game at Hara Arena in Trotwood, a preseason game between the Indianapolis Racers and the Cincinnati Stingers on September 27, 1978.

On May 27, 2019, an EF4 tornado in the Dayton-area Memorial Day outbreak tore through Trotwood, damaging 500 homes and destroying 59 of them.

Wolf Creek runs through Trotwood, and along it sits Sycamore State Park, a roughly 3,000-acre park offering horseback riding, hiking, hunting, and camping — the only state park in Montgomery County.

Trotwood is home to United Theological Seminary, one of the thirteen seminaries of the United Methodist Church.

Public school students in Trotwood are served by the Trotwood-Madison City School District.