Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Wayne Lakes, OH

Wayne Lakes is a village in Darke County, western Ohio, located on State Route 121 south of Greenville — a village built not around a town square but around a chain of lakes.

The village began as a gravel pit operation, and over the decades the excavated pits filled with water and were transformed into a residential lake community.

Wayne Lakes has 18 lakes within the village, and its official site notes it is home to more than 300 houses and roughly 700 residents.

Swimming is not permitted in most of the village's lakes — the exception is Wayne Lakes Beach, on Algonquin Lake — but the lakes are open to fishing and boating.

The 2020 census counted 693 people in Wayne Lakes, down slightly from 718 residents in 2010, when the village had 304 households.

Water makes up an unusually large share of the village: of its 0.65 square miles, 0.12 square miles — about 18 percent — is water rather than land.

The gravel hills around Wayne Lakes were known in early county days as the 'Hills of Judea,' a name a traveler gave them because their beauty reminded him of the biblical hills of Judea.

Just outside the village stands the Fort Jefferson State Memorial, marking the site of Fort Jefferson, a frontier supply fort built in 1791 across Mud Creek during the campaigns of Generals Arthur St. Clair and Anthony Wayne.