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Wyoming is a residential city in Hamilton County, Ohio, and a suburb of Cincinnati — not to be confused with the state of Wyoming out west.

Among Wyoming's earliest settlers was the Pendery family, who arrived in 1805 near the old pre-statehood road associated with General Anthony Wayne.

Wyoming got its name in 1861, when residents gathered at the home of Robert Reily — considered the "Father of Wyoming" — a week before the Civil War began and chose a Lenape word meaning "large plains."

Wyoming officially became a village in 1874 with about 600 residents, and it incorporated as a city in 1951 with more than 5,000 people, adopting the council-manager form of government.

Wyoming was the first community in Ohio to implement a systematic laying of concrete sidewalks.

The Miami and Erie Canal, completed nearby in 1828, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, which reached the area in 1851, made Wyoming an attractive spot for wealthy Cincinnati industrialists to build grand country houses.

Wyoming's Village Historic District, established in 1986 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, contains roughly 300 homes from the 19th and early 20th centuries, many in a distinctive New England-style weatherboard Victorian character.

In the early 1900s, many Sears Modern Homes — mail-order kit houses shipped by rail in boxcars — were assembled on lots throughout Wyoming.

Wyoming had 8,756 residents at the 2020 census, living in 3,108 households, with an unusually high average household size of about 2.9 people.

Wyoming is an affluent community: Census Bureau survey estimates put its median household income at about $133,500, and about 72% of its adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.