Local events in Moscow
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How Moscow began
Moscow, an Ohio River village in Washington Township, was platted in 1816, with a post office following in 1826; local tradition holds that French immigrants who had served as veterans of Napoleon's invasion of Russia may have given the town its name. The village is the birthplace of William J. Bulow (born 1869), who went on to serve as both governor and United States senator from South Dakota. On March 2, 2012, a tornado destroyed more than 80 percent of the village and killed three people, part of a larger outbreak that tore through Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio that day.
Platted 1816.
Where the name comes from
The name may have been given to the town by French immigrants who were veterans of Napoleon's disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia, a common (if unverified in detail) local tradition for Ohio River towns of this era named for Russian and Napoleonic War place names.
Before the town
No mound, earthwork or documented historic-era Native village, encounter or battle specific to Moscow was found in the sources searched. John Gregg, whose 1795 party made the first attempted settlement in Washington Township at nearby Neville before abandoning it, later died at a home the 1880 county history locates "opposite the present village of Moscow," on the Kentucky side of the river, but no Native encounter is recorded there. In the surrounding area, Manning's Station was built about 1795 specifically as a defensive refuge against feared Native raids.
Nations recorded here: Shawnee.
Timeline
- — Moscow is platted on the Ohio River in Washington Township.
- — A post office is established at Moscow.
- — George Gregg, a Washington Township tanner, moves his business to Moscow, where he continues working until his death in January 1862.
- — William J. Bulow, later governor and United States senator from South Dakota, is born in Moscow.
- — March 2: a tornado destroys more than 80 percent of Moscow and kills three people, part of a larger outbreak across Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
- — Washington Township, in which Moscow lies, is organized.
- — William John Bulow, born to Joseph and Elizabeth (Ebendorf) Bulow, German-immigrant parents, is raised and educated near Moscow before earning a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1893 and moving to South Dakota the same year.
Stories
From the Ohio River to the South Dakota statehouse
William J. Bulow was born on January 13, 1869, near Moscow, to Joseph and Elizabeth (Ebendorf) Bulow, German immigrants who raised him in the small river village. He was educated locally before leaving Ohio to study law, earning his degree from the University of Michigan in 1893. That same year he moved west to South Dakota, a state not yet five years old, and built his legal and political career there rather than in his native Clermont County. Bulow went on to serve as South Dakota's governor and, later, as one of its United States senators, becoming Moscow's most nationally prominent native son -- a small river-village upbringing that carried, in the end, all the way to Washington.
Photographs
Photo: Aesopposea, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Aesopposea, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · archive.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
Water
Eleven vertical wells and one collector well in the Ohio River valley aquifer at Clermontville and Moscow The water here
- Tate-monroe Water Association100% of residentsOhio River valley aquifer (collector/vertical wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Moscow's boundary: 1 police station, 1 Toxics Release Inventory facility and 1 spill case. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Police stations (1)
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Moscow Police DepartmentMoscow
- Address
- 79 Elizabeth Street, Moscow, OH 45153
- Coordinates
- 38.85747, -84.23103
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures, police stations, corrected and completed by hand (September 2026). The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction, not by distance.
Facilities reporting toxic releases (1)
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Dynegy Zimmer, LlcToxics Release Inventory · Moscow
- Address
- 1781 U.S. Route 52, Moscow, OH 45153
- County
- Clermont County
- Status
- Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (open)
- EPA program ID
- 45153CNCNN1781U
- EPA registry ID
- 110000392860
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Toxics Release Inventory reporters. Reporting a release is required of large users of listed chemicals; it is not by itself a violation.
Spills reported since 2021 (1)
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Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2021-01-04 · Washington Twp
- Reported
- 2021-01-04
- What spilled
- Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
- Reached a waterway
- 13 - Ohio River
- Where
- Washington Twp, Clermont County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2101EPA0000011
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: Ohio EPA emergency response spill reports, 2021 to September 2026, one point per case where Ohio EPA placed it. A report is what the caller or responder recorded; amounts are often blank or estimated.
Its ZIP codes
Each ZIP code that touches Moscow, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.
| ZIP | Share | Water | Radon | Home value | Schools | Flood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45153 Washington Township and Moscow | 8% | Eleven vertical wells and one collector well in the Ohio River valley aquifer at Clermontville and Moscow | 5.1 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1980 | New Richmond Exempted Village · 3.5 stars overall | 14% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
Local government
Who holds office in Moscow, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.
Money issues on the ballot since 2023: 1 of 1 passed.
Ballot issues
| Date | Issue | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-07 | Issue: Proposed Tax Levy Moscow Village | 58 | 14 | Passed (80.56% for) |
| 2023-05-02 | Issue: Village of Moscow | 6 | 83 | Failed (6.74% for) |
Elections for office
| Date | Office | Candidates and votes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-04 | Member of Council | Cindy Gorth 33, 26.61%; Timothy A. Forbes 32, 25.81%; Lisa Nichols 31, 25.0%; Amy Dean Forbes 28, 22.58% |
| 2023-11-07 | Member of Council | Julie Hawkins 57, 44.53%; Phil Turner 55, 42.97%; Moriah Oberlin 16, 12.5% |
| 2023-11-07 | Mayor | Tim Suter 66, 100.0% |
| 2021-11-02 | Member of Council | Todd English 38, 20.88%; Jo Caudill 36, 19.78%; Cindy Gorth 36, 19.78%; Lisa Nichols 30, 16.48%; Cheryl Richards 27, 14.84%; Danny Ray Freeman 15, 8.24% |
| 2019-11-05 | Member of Council | Debra Roark 31, 51.67%; Phil Turner 29, 48.33% |
| 2019-11-05 | Mayor | Tim Suter 35, 100.0% |
| 2015-11-03 | Member of Council | Debra S. Roark 59, 53.15%; Sharon Chambers 52, 46.85% |
| 2015-11-03 | Mayor | Tim Suter 67, 100.0% |
Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.
Auditor of State record
- No fiscal caution, watch or emergency on the Auditor of State's lists.
- Agreed Upon Procedures, 2022 to 2023, released 2025-06-26
The county
Clermont County: 16 ZIP codes, 26 cities, villages and townships, 218,581 people.
Nearby places
Rain and snow
How much has actually fallen on Moscow, day by day, from 1887 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 1.19 in
- 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-29
- rain so far in 2026
- 37.6 in
- about normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 14.3 in
- a normal year brings 9.4 in
- a normal year
- 44.4 in
- average of 30 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 1.19 | — | 29 |
| September 2026 | 3.56 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 4.28 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 4.12 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 5.47 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 6.35 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 3.86 | — | 30 |
| March 2026 | 6.16 | 0.2 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 1.00 | 5.9 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 1.66 | 8.1 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 3.28 | 9.9 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 3.55 | 1.6 | 30 |
| Wettest year | 2019 — 59.5 in |
|---|---|
| Driest year | 1934 — 23.7 in |
| Snowiest year | 1910 — 53.1 in |
| Wettest day on record | 2 March 1997 — 6.78 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day | 8 December 1917 — 12.01 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground | 21 January 1978 — 16.83 in |
Estimated, not measured. No rain gauge has ever stood inside Moscow, so every figure here is worked out from the gauges around it - the nearest ones weighted most. Treat them as close estimates rather than readings.
50,409 days of records, 1887-09-01 to 2026-10-29. Source: NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, 3,240 gauges in and around Ohio. A day is "gauged" when a gauge standing inside the boundary reported it, and the value is the mean of those gauges. Otherwise it is interpolated by inverse distance from every gauge reporting within 50 miles. Nothing is carried forward, back-filled or smoothed. Against NOAA nClimDiv county monthly precipitation over 136,848 complete county-months (checked 2026-10-31): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-10-31 from the Cracked Buckeye precipitation archive. Snow is the softer number — snowfall is measured by hand with a ruler, no agency publishes a gridded county snowfall series, and blowing snow defeats every observer.
Environmental permits and filings
What Ohio EPA has on file for Moscow: permits, inspections, violations, cleanups and the state loans behind sewer and water work. Every line links to the agency's own document.
- facilities and sites on file
- 2
- those placed on the map inside Moscow
Data centers, power and big tech here. Ohio EPA files that name a data-center company, a power plant or substation, or a large technology firm:
- DYNEGY ZIMMER LLC ZIMMER POWER STATION (air pollution, latest Apr 9, 2026)
| Program | Facilities and sites |
|---|---|
| Air pollution | 1 |
| Wastewater and stormwater discharge | 1 |
Source: Ohio EPA eDocument portal (edocpub.epa.ohio.gov), indexed 2026-10-14. Facilities are placed on the map from Ohio EPA's own map layers, EPA's Facility Registry, coordinates written in the filings, or a geocoded street address. A permit filed under a private person's name (most are household septic systems) is counted but never named, placed or linked; licenses for individual workers and open-burning notices are left out entirely.
Quick answers
What county is Moscow, Ohio in?
Moscow is a village in Clermont County, Ohio, with 155 residents.
When was Moscow, Ohio founded?
Moscow was laid out 1816. Source
How did Moscow, Ohio get its name?
The name may have been given to the town by French immigrants who were veterans of Napoleon's disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia, a common (if unverified in detail) local tradition for Ohio River towns of this era named for Russian and Napoleonic War place names. Source
What ZIP code is Moscow, Ohio?
Most of Moscow is in ZIP code 45153.
Where does Moscow, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Moscow (Tate-monroe Water Association): Eleven vertical wells and one collector well in the Ohio River valley aquifer at Clermontville and Moscow.
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