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History from Mount Healthy
People and inventions tied to this place, each with its sources. All people · All inventions
How Mount Healthy began
The village that became Mount Healthy was established in 1817 as Mount Pleasant. In 1840, nineteen-year-old Robert S. Duncanson, the son of a free Black tradesman, moved there from Michigan to pursue fine art near Cincinnati, which he later called "the Athens of the West"; he went on to become the first African American artist to achieve international recognition, and his 1844 landscape of Mount Healthy hangs today in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1850 the village renamed itself Mount Healthy after a cholera epidemic in which its residents largely survived while people in the surrounding countryside did not. The Main Theatre opened on Hamilton Avenue in 1915 and ran until 1971, and the 1911 Mt. Healthy Public School, designed by architect John F. Sheblessy, served the district until the 1980s. Mount Healthy became a city in 1951 and held 6,996 residents in 2020.
Settled 1817 (as Mount Pleasant), incorporated city, 1951.
Where the name comes from
The village was originally named Mount Pleasant when established in 1817. In 1850, following a cholera epidemic in which the village's own residents survived at a far higher rate than people in the surrounding countryside, it renamed itself Mount Healthy to commemorate that survival.
Before the town
No Native village, mound, or documented encounter specific to Mount Healthy itself was found in the sources consulted.
Timeline
- — The village of Mount Pleasant is established.
- — Robert S. Duncanson, age 19, moves from Monroe, Michigan to Mount Pleasant to pursue a career as a fine artist near Cincinnati's art community.
- — Duncanson paints a landscape of Mount Healthy, later acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- — Methodist minister and abolitionist Charles Avery gives Duncanson his first major commission, launching his career among Cincinnati's abolitionist patrons.
- — After a cholera epidemic that the village's residents largely survived while the surrounding countryside suffered heavy losses, the village renames itself Mount Healthy.
- — Population is approximately 1,354.
- — The Mt. Healthy Public School opens at Compton and Harrison avenues, designed by architect John F. Sheblessy.
- — The Main Theatre opens on Hamilton Avenue.
- — Mount Healthy becomes a city.
- — The Main Theatre closes.
- — Mt. Healthy City Schools closes the 1911 public school building; it later becomes the Mt. Healthy Preparatory and Fitness Academy.
- — The Mt. Healthy Public School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2.
- — Population peaks around 7,580.
- — The Main Theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27.
- — Census population is 6,996.
Stories
The Athens of the West, from a young painter's eyes
Robert S. Duncanson was nineteen years old in 1840 when he left his family's home in Monroe, Michigan and moved to Mount Pleasant, the village that would later rename itself Mount Healthy, specifically to be near Cincinnati's art community -- a city he came to call "the Athens of the West." He was the son of a free Black tradesman descended from freed Virginia slaves, and in an era when almost no doors in the American art world opened for Black painters, he found patrons instead among Cincinnati's abolitionists: a Methodist minister named Charles Avery gave him his first major commission in 1848, and the wealthy businessman Nicholas Longworth later paid him to paint eight murals for his mansion. Duncanson became the first African American artist to achieve international recognition, exhibiting in Britain and traveling to Scotland to paint scenes from Sir Walter Scott's poetry. Before any of that, in 1844, still early in his Mount Healthy years, he painted a landscape of the village itself -- a quiet, unpeopled scene that today hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the earliest surviving record of how the young artist who would go on to paint for presidents and lords first saw the small Ohio village where his career began.
A name earned by surviving
Cholera swept through the Ohio Valley in waves through the mid-19th century, and in 1850 it hit the countryside around Mount Pleasant hard -- while, for reasons no source fully explains, the village itself came through with far fewer losses than its rural neighbors. Whether it was water source, elevation, sanitation, or simple chance, residents took the disparity seriously enough to rename their own town for it, choosing Mount Healthy in place of Mount Pleasant as a permanent, literal claim about the place's fitness to live in. The name has stuck for more than 170 years since, long after the epidemic that inspired it, through the village's growth into a city in 1951 and its steady 20th-century suburban development -- one of a small number of Ohio place names that record not a person, a landscape feature, or a founder's old hometown, but a specific, remembered piece of public health history.
Photographs
Photo: Robert S. Duncanson, public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Amy Bolinder, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org
Historic places
2 places in Mount Healthy on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.
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Main TheatreBuilding · Mt. Healthy
- Address
- 7428 Hamilton Ave.
- Where
- Mt. Healthy, Hamilton County · ZIP 45231
- What it is
- Building
- Latest NPS certification action
- 2017
- NRIS reference number
- 100001934
- Coordinates
- 39.22919, -84.54807
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
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Mt. Healthy Public SchoolBuilding · Mt. Healthy · listed 1985
- Address
- Compton & Harrison Aves.
- Where
- Mt. Healthy, Hamilton County · ZIP 45231
- What it is
- Building
- Listed on the National Register
- 1985
- NRIS reference number
- 85000946
- Coordinates
- 39.23292, -84.54984
National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places point file. The listing year is shown where NPS's certification date agrees with the listing's reference number. Listing recognizes significance; it does not restrict a private owner.
Water
13 wells in the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer along the Great Miami River near Fairfield, Butler Co. The water here
- Cincinnati Public Water System99% of residentsOhio River (Miller Plant, ~88%) plus Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer wells (~12%)
- Wyoming City1% of residentsMill Creek valley aquifer (6 city wells)
Hospitals, fire stations and more
Inside Mount Healthy's boundary: 1 health center, 2 dialysis centers, 2 nursing homes, 1 fire or EMS station, 6 public schools, 1 library, 1 museum, 1 police station, 2 Superfund sites and 4 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.
Community health centers (1)
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Mt. Healthy Family Practice CenterHealth center · Cincinnati
- Run by
- a federally qualified health center
- Setting
- Clinic
- City
- Cincinnati
- Coordinates
- 39.23094, -84.53923
Find a Health Center (HRSA) ↗ HRSA data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: HRSA health center service delivery sites, active, September 2026 (school-based sites left out). Health centers see patients whether or not they have insurance, with fees on a sliding scale.
Dialysis centers (2)
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Davita Affinity Place DialysisDialysis · Cincinnati
- Address
- 7700 Affinity Place, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- Dialysis stations
- 17
- Medicare star rating
- 2 of 5 stars
- Services
- in-center hemodialysis
- Ownership
- for profit
- Chain
- DaVita
- Medicare certified since
- 2016-03-16
- Phone
- (513) 521-0981
- Medicare ID
- 362834
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS dialysis facility list (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Dca My DialysisDialysis · Mount Healthy
- Address
- 7600 Affinity Place, Mount Healthy, OH 45231
- Dialysis stations
- 16
- Medicare star rating
- 1 of 5 stars
- Services
- in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis training
- Ownership
- for profit
- Chain
- independent
- Medicare certified since
- 2003-03-30
- Phone
- (513) 931-7900
- Medicare ID
- 362655
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS dialysis facility list (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS dialysis facility list, September 2026, geocoded with the Census Bureau batch geocoder (an address it could not place sits at its ZIP center).
Nursing homes (2)
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Home at Hearthstone, The5 of 5 stars · Cincinnati
- Address
- 8028 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- Certified beds
- 96
- Residents on an average day
- 89
- Medicare overall rating
- 5 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 4 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 2 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 5 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Chain
- FOUNDATIONS HEALTH SOLUTIONS
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (513) 521-2700
- Medicare ID
- 366251
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Mt Healthy Christian Home5 of 5 stars · Cincinnati
- Address
- 8097 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- Certified beds
- 75
- Residents on an average day
- 66
- Medicare overall rating
- 5 of 5 stars
- Health inspections
- 5 of 5 stars
- Staffing
- 4 of 5 stars
- Quality measures
- 4 of 5 stars
- Penalties since 2023
- none
- Ownership
- Non profit - Corporation
- Continuing care retirement community
- Yes
- Takes
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Phone
- (513) 931-5000
- Medicare ID
- 366025
Medicare Care Compare ↗ CMS nursing home data (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: CMS Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files; Medicare star ratings run 1 to 5.
Fire and EMS stations (1)
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Mount Healthy Fire Department Station 74Mount Healthy
- Address
- 7700 Perry Street, Mount Healthy, OH 45231
- Coordinates
- 39.23367, -84.54643
USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: USGS National Map structures (most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), checked against the Columbus and Cleveland station lists. The department that answers a call is set by jurisdiction and mutual aid, not by distance.
Public schools (6)
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Mt Healthy High School2.5 of 5 stars · Cincinnati
- Address
- 8101 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- School district
- Mount Healthy City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 842
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 52
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2.5 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 55.2%
- Four-year graduation rate
- 91.4%
- Ohio building IRN
- 025817
- NCES school ID
- 390444101346
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Mt Healthy Junior High School2 of 5 stars · Cincinnati
- Address
- 8101 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- School district
- Mount Healthy City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 458
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 33
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 42.8%
- Ohio building IRN
- 035105
- NCES school ID
- 390444101350
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Mt. Healthy Early Learning Center1 of 5 stars · Cincinnati
- Address
- 1310 Adams Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- School district
- Mount Healthy City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 290
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 13
- Report card, 2025-26
- 1 of 5 stars
- Ohio building IRN
- 019522
- NCES school ID
- 390444106219
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Mt. Healthy Preparatory and Fitness AcademyCincinnati
- Address
- 7601 Harrison Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 195
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 6.62
- NCES school ID
- 390057505067
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Mt. Healthy South Elementary School2 of 5 stars · Cincinnati
- Address
- 1743 Adams Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- School district
- Mount Healthy City School District
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 595
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 48
- Report card, 2025-26
- 2 of 5 stars
- Performance index
- 46.3%
- Ohio building IRN
- 016733
- NCES school ID
- 390444101345
NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Mt. Healthy Virtual AcademyMount Healthy
- Address
- 7615 Harrison Ave, Mount Healthy, OH 45231
- Kind (NCES)
- Regular School
- Students, 2023-24
- 85
- Teachers (full-time equivalent)
- 2
- NCES school ID
- 390444110844
Source: NCES EDGE public school locations 2024-25 and Common Core of Data 2023-24 (type, students, teachers); Ohio School Report Cards 2025-26 (Department of Education and Workforce), matched by name within the district.
Public libraries (1)
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Mt HealthyBranch · Cincinnati
- Address
- 7700 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45231
- What it is
- Branch
- Library system
- Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library
- Open
- 2,808 hours a year, 52 weeks
- Building
- 10,000 sq ft
- System's visits, FY2024
- 4,091,256
- System's loans, FY2024
- 20,126,186
- People the system serves
- 830,639
- Phone
- (513) 369-4469
IMLS Public Libraries Survey (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: IMLS Public Libraries Survey FY2024 (outlets and their systems). Any Ohio resident can get a free card at any Ohio public library.
Museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos (1)
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Mt Healthy Historical SocietyHistorical society · Cincinnati
- What it is
- Historical society
- City
- Cincinnati
- Coordinates
- 39.24178, -84.54263
Search Wikipedia ↗ IMLS Museum Data Files (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
The museum list is IMLS's 2018 file; a museum may have closed or moved since.
Source: IMLS Museum Data Files, 2018.
Police stations (1)
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Mount Healthy Police DepartmentMount Healthy
- Address
- 7700 Perry Street, Mount Healthy, OH 45231
- Coordinates
- 39.23368, -84.54652
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.
Superfund sites (2)
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Mount Healthy Mercury ResponseSuperfund program · Mount Healthy
- Address
- 7411 Huntridge Avenue, Mount Healthy, OH 45231
- County
- Hamilton County
- Status
- Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
- EPA program ID
- OHN000510315
- EPA registry ID
- 110039014198
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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North College Hill Mercury ResponseSuperfund program · Cincinnati
- Address
- Boiteaux Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45231
- County
- Hamilton County
- Status
- Superfund program site, not on the National Priorities List
- EPA program ID
- OHN000508099
- EPA registry ID
- 110009343193
EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS) and National Priorities List sites. Many program sites were assessed and needed no cleanup.
Spills reported since 2021 (4)
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Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc2025-09-24 · Mount Healthy
- Reported
- 2025-09-24
- What spilled
- Other / All Other / Trade Name / Mixture / Solution Etc
- Where
- Mount Healthy, Hamilton County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2509EPA0001600
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)2024-12-25 · Mount Healthy
- Reported
- 2024-12-25
- What spilled
- Fuel Gasoline ( 25% Ethanol Not E85)
- Largest amount reported
- 20 gallons
- Where
- Mount Healthy, Hamilton County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2412EPA0002069
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sewage Human Reached water2021-03-19 · Mount Healthy
- Reported
- 2021-03-19
- What spilled
- Sewage Human
- Reached a waterway
- 99 - Unnamed
- Where
- Mount Healthy, Hamilton County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2103EPA0000363
Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗
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Sewage Human Reached water2026-09-01 · Mount Healthy
- Reported
- 2026-09-01
- What spilled
- Sewage Human
- Reached a waterway
- 31 - West Fork Mill Creek
- Where
- Mount Healthy, Hamilton County
- Ohio EPA district office
- SWDO
- Ohio EPA case number
- 2609EPA0001630
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 Mount Healthy, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45231 Springfield Township and Cincinnati | 17% | 13 wells in the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer along the Great Miami River near Fairfield, Butler Co. | 3.0 pCi/L average radon | Median year built 1960 | Mount Healthy City · 2.5 stars overall | 6.0% of residents in the 1% floodplain |
On the November 3, 2026 ballot
Statewide question: State Issue 3: Voter ID
Local questions for Mount Healthy, Hamilton County and its school district:
- Hamilton County: Renews and increases a 5.61-mill property tax levy for the care & placement of children & children services of Hamilton County for 4 years, beginning in 2026.
Races, candidates and every question for an address: your ballot. County offices and judges are on your county board's sample ballot.
The county
Hamilton County: 54 ZIP codes, 47 cities, villages and townships with pages here, 838,418 people (Census Bureau estimate, July 2025).
Nearby places
Rain and snow
How much has actually fallen on Mount Healthy, day by day, from 1905 to now. Daily totals, not averages.
- rain, last 30 days
- 1.15 in
- 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30
- rain so far in 2026
- 45.5 in
- 5.7 in above normal for the date
- snow so far in 2026
- 13.7 in
- a normal year brings 16.7 in
- a normal year
- 47.0 in
- average of 30 years, 1991-2020
| Month | Rain (in) | Snow (in) | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 1.15 | — | 30 |
| September 2026 | 6.66 | — | 30 |
| August 2026 | 6.27 | — | 31 |
| July 2026 | 3.90 | — | 31 |
| June 2026 | 6.95 | — | 30 |
| May 2026 | 7.34 | — | 31 |
| April 2026 | 3.79 | — | 30 |
| March 2026 | 6.62 | 0.1 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 1.26 | 3.0 | 28 |
| January 2026 | 1.57 | 10.5 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 2.44 | 11.3 | 31 |
| November 2025 | 3.96 | 1.8 | 30 |
| Driest year (estimated) | 1934 — 21.6 in |
|---|---|
| Wettest day (estimated) | 9 March 1964 — 4.50 in |
| Heaviest snowfall in a day (estimated) | 8 December 1917 — 10.78 in |
| Deepest snow on the ground (estimated) | 20 December 1919 — 22.78 in |
Estimated, not measured. No rain gauge has ever stood inside Mount Healthy, 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.
44,378 days of records, 1905-01-01 to 2026-10-30. 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 2026-11-01): correlation 0.9515, median absolute difference 0.217 in a month. Built 2026-11-01 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 Mount Healthy: 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
- 5
- those placed on the map inside Mount Healthy
| Program | Facilities and sites |
|---|---|
| Air pollution | 3 |
| Brownfield | 1 |
| Contaminated-site cleanup | 1 |
| Date | Facility or site | What |
|---|---|---|
| KEN'S 66 INC | Air pollution report | |
| SUNDERHAUS AUTO REPAIR | Air pollution report | |
| MT HEALTHY AUTO BODY SHOP | Air pollution report | |
| COMPTON RD, MOUNT HEALTHY | Brownfield assessment | |
| COMPTON RD, MOUNT HEALTHY | Contaminated-site cleanup assessment | |
| COMPTON RD, MOUNT HEALTHY | Brownfield assessment | |
| COMPTON RD, MOUNT HEALTHY | Brownfield assessment | |
| COMPTON RD, MOUNT HEALTHY | Brownfield assessment | |
| COMPTON RD, MOUNT HEALTHY | Brownfield assessment |
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 Mount Healthy, Ohio in?
Mount Healthy is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, with 6,996 residents.
When was Mount Healthy, Ohio founded?
Mount Healthy was settled 1817 (as Mount Pleasant); incorporated city, 1951. Source
How did Mount Healthy, Ohio get its name?
The village was originally named Mount Pleasant when established in 1817. Source
What ZIP code is Mount Healthy, Ohio?
Most of Mount Healthy is in ZIP code 45231.
Where does Mount Healthy, Ohio get its water?
The main water source for Mount Healthy (Cincinnati Public Water System): 13 wells in the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer along the Great Miami River near Fairfield, Butler Co.
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