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Xenia is a city in and the county seat of Greene County in southwestern Ohio, about 15 miles east of Dayton, with a population of 25,441 at the 2020 census.

Xenia was founded in 1803, the same year Ohio became a state, after pioneer John Paul bought 2,000 acres and persuaded county commissioners to place the county seat at the forks of the Shawnee creeks.

The city's name comes from the Greek word for “hospitality”: when a town meeting deadlocked over names, a local woman, Laticia Davis, cast the deciding vote for Xenia after the Reverend Robert Armstrong praised the community's hospitality.

Xenia is the largest place in the United States whose name begins with the letter X.

On April 3, 1974, an F5 tornado tore directly through Xenia during the 1974 Super Outbreak, killing 34 people, injuring 1,150, destroying almost half the city's buildings, and leaving 10,000 people homeless.

The Xenia Daily Gazette won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1975 for its coverage of the 1974 tornado, and the rebuilt Xenia High School auditorium was named the Bob Hope Auditorium after the comedian held a benefit for the city.

According to local legend, the Shawnee called the Xenia area “the place of the devil wind,” and the Shawnee war chief Tecumseh was born in 1768 at their tribal village of Old Chillicothe just north of present-day Xenia.

President-elect Abraham Lincoln made a brief speech in Xenia on February 13, 1861, as his inaugural train traveled from Cincinnati to Columbus.

Xenia calls itself the “Bicycle Capital of the Midwest”: five of its six former railroad lines were converted into rail trails, and Xenia Station anchors a hub of paved trails including the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

At the 2020 census, Xenia's residents lived in about 10,534 households across the city's roughly 13 square miles.