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New Richmond

Village · Clermont County · 2,727 residents · 1% municipal income tax

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Local events in New Richmond

8 events in the next 90 days from 2 public calendars. All local events in New Richmond

  1. Shade Tree

    6 to 6:30 p.m. · From Village of New Richmond

  2. River Village Christmas

    Noon to 8 p.m. · From Village of New Richmond

Checked October 20; the events page is refreshed daily.

History from New Richmond

People and inventions tied to this place, each with its sources. All people · All inventions

How New Richmond began

New Richmond grew from the ground where Jacob Light, a survivor of a violent 1792 Native ambush on the Ohio River, built the township's first cabin in 1797 after purchasing the Jackson survey. Light formally laid out the village on September 19-22, 1814, and family tradition credits his nephew with suggesting the name, after the nephew's hometown of Richmond, Virginia. An adjoining village, Susanna, platted by Thomas Ashburn in 1816, merged with New Richmond on January 11, 1828. The village briefly served as Clermont County's seat of government (1823-1824) and became a 19th-century steamboat-building center; it is also remembered as the birthplace of American abolitionist publishing, where James G. Birney printed the first issues of his antislavery newspaper The Philanthropist before moving it to Cincinnati in 1836. New Richmond has been repeatedly devastated by Ohio River floods, most severely in 1937, when it lost 250 of its 415 homes.

Settled 1797, platted 1814-09-19, incorporated 1828-01-11, by Jacob Light (first cabin, 1797; platted the village, September 1814); merged with the adjoining village of Susanna, 1828.

Where the name comes from

Family tradition holds that Jacob Light's nephew, present when the village was laid out in 1814, suggested naming it for his own hometown of Richmond, Virginia; the "New" distinguished it from that older city.

Before the town

The clearest Native-related history tied to New Richmond's own founding is the 1792 ambush that nearly killed its founder. Returning up the Ohio River by canoe from Fort Washington (Cincinnati) in July of that year, Jacob Light's small party was fired on by Native attackers concealed in a riverside willow thicket; one man was killed instantly, Light was shot through the shoulder, and an eleven-year-old boy in the party, Oliver M. Spencer, was seized and carried into a captivity that lasted years before he was ransomed. Light survived, swimming to the Ohio shore despite his wound, and five years later purchased land and built the first cabin on the site that became New Richmond, eventually laying out the village itself in 1814. No mound, earthwork or named historic-era village specific to the village site itself was found in the sources checked. The Ferris Site, a National Register-listed prehistoric archaeological site, lies near the village.

Nations recorded here: Shawnee.

Timeline

  1. — July: Jacob Light, later New Richmond's founder, is shot and wounded in a Native ambush on the Ohio River while a boy in his party, Oliver M. Spencer, is taken captive.
  2. — Jacob Light erects the first cabin on the site of the future New Richmond.
  3. — September 19-22: Light formally lays out the village of New Richmond, reportedly named at his nephew's suggestion for Richmond, Virginia.
  4. — February: Thomas Ashburn plats the adjoining village of Susanna.
  5. — New Richmond becomes the temporary seat of Clermont County government, following the loss of territory to newly organized Brown County in 1818; court meets there only briefly before the seat moves again, to Batavia, in 1824.
  6. — January 11: Susanna formally merges with New Richmond, forming the single Village of New Richmond.
  7. — James G. Birney, who had begun publishing his antislavery newspaper The Philanthropist in New Richmond, moves the paper to Cincinnati.
  8. — The great Ohio River flood devastates New Richmond, destroying 250 of the village's 415 homes.
  9. — December 23: the New Richmond Water Works and Electric Station, at 701 Washington Street, is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Stories

A newspaper too dangerous for its own town

James G. Birney, a former slaveholder turned abolitionist, chose New Richmond as the place to launch The Philanthropist, one of the earliest antislavery newspapers published anywhere in the country, printing it from the riverside village in the mid-1830s. The choice put the paper within sight of Kentucky, a slave state, across the Ohio River -- a provocative location that drew exactly the hostility one would expect. Within a short time Birney judged the paper safer, or at least more sustainable, printed from the larger city of Cincinnati, and relocated it there in 1836, where it was in fact attacked by a pro-slavery mob soon after. A modern historical marker on Susanna Way in New Richmond preserves the site of the paper's first issues, a quiet river town's small but real footprint in the national fight over slavery a generation before the Civil War.

Photographs

Historical marker in New Richmond designating the site where James G. Birney first published his antislavery newspaper, The Philanthropist, photographed 2011.
Historical marker in New Richmond designating the site where James G. Birney first published his antislavery newspaper, The Philanthropist, photographed 2011. (2011)
Photo: GregNR, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Front Street in New Richmond, Ohio, photographed August 10, 2020.
Front Street in New Richmond, Ohio, photographed August 10, 2020. (2020)
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Local history sources: en.wikipedia.org · archive.org · genealogytrails.com · en.wikipedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org · commons.wikimedia.org

Historic places

2 places in New Richmond on the National Register of Historic Places. Press a pin or a name for its whole record.

  1. New Richmond Water Works and Electric StationBuilding · New Richmond · listed 1993
    Address
    701 Washington St.
    Where
    New Richmond, Clermont County · ZIP 45157
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1993
    NRIS reference number
    93001389
    Coordinates
    38.94515, -84.27747

    National Register file (NPS) ↗ Search Wikipedia ↗ Street map and directions ↗ On the Cracked Buckeye map

  2. Ross-Gowdy HouseBuilding · New Richmond · listed 1982
    Address
    125 George St.
    Where
    New Richmond, Clermont County · ZIP 45157
    What it is
    Building
    Listed on the National Register
    1982
    NRIS reference number
    82003554
    Coordinates
    38.94921, -84.28170

    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.

Every historic place in Clermont County on the full map

Water

Eleven vertical wells and one collector well in the Ohio River valley aquifer at Clermontville and Moscow The water here

Hospitals, fire stations and more

Inside New Richmond's boundary: 1 health center, 2 fire and EMS stations, 3 public schools, 1 library, 2 museums, 1 police station, 2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities and 4 spill cases. Press a pin or a name for its whole record and its source.

Community health centers (1)

  1. HealthSource New RichmondHealth center · New Richmond
    Run by
    a federally qualified health center
    Setting
    Clinic
    City
    New Richmond
    Coordinates
    38.96932, -84.28519

    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.

Fire and EMS stations (2)

  1. New Richmond Fire and EMS Station 36New Richmond
    Address
    300 Hamilton Street, New Richmond, OH 45157
    Coordinates
    38.94925, -84.27781

    USGS National Map structures (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  2. New Richmond Fire and EMS Station 37New Richmond
    Address
    104 Market Street, New Richmond, OH 45157
    Coordinates
    38.95132, -84.28093

    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 (3)

  1. New Richmond High School4 of 5 stars · New Richmond
    Address
    1131 Bethel New Richmond Rd, New Richmond, OH 45157
    School district
    New Richmond Ex Vill School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    587
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    32.85
    Report card, 2025-26
    4 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    78.5%
    Four-year graduation rate
    97.4%
    Ohio building IRN
    026922
    NCES school ID
    390455502276

    NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  2. New Richmond Middle School3 of 5 stars · New Richmond
    Address
    1141 Bethel New Richmond Rd, New Richmond, OH 45157
    School district
    New Richmond Ex Vill School District
    Kind (NCES)
    Regular School
    Students, 2023-24
    490
    Teachers (full-time equivalent)
    19
    Report card, 2025-26
    3 of 5 stars
    Performance index
    70.2%
    Ohio building IRN
    026930
    NCES school ID
    390455502277

    NCES school record ↗ Ohio School Report Card ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  3. New Richmond Preparatory AcademyNew Richmond
    Address
    212 Market St, New Richmond, OH 45157
    NCES school ID
    391005910890

    NCES school record ↗ Street map and directions ↗

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)

  1. New Richmond Branch LibraryBranch · New Richmond
    Address
    103 River Valley Blvd, New Richmond, OH 45157
    What it is
    Branch
    Library system
    Clermont County Public Library
    Open
    2,504 hours a year, 52 weeks
    Building
    10,000 sq ft
    System's visits, FY2024
    409,864
    System's loans, FY2024
    1,792,026
    People the system serves
    208,601
    Phone
    (513) 553-0570

    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 (2)

  1. Historic New RichmondHistorical society · New Richmond
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    New Richmond
    Coordinates
    38.94937, -84.28141

    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.

  2. Ross-Gowdy HouseHistorical society · New Richmond
    What it is
    Historical society
    City
    New Richmond
    Coordinates
    38.94937, -84.28141

    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)

  1. New Richmond Village Police DepartmentNew Richmond
    Address
    102 Willow Street, New Richmond, OH 45157
    Coordinates
    38.95074, -84.28192

    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 (2)

  1. Beckjord Generating StationToxics Release Inventory · New Richmond
    Address
    757 U S Route 52, New Richmond, OH 45157
    County
    Clermont County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    45157CGBCK757OL
    EPA registry ID
    110056953890

    EPA facility record ↗ EPA Facility Registry Service (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  2. Secodyne, Incorporated - New Richmond, OhToxics Release Inventory · New Richmond
    Address
    200 Market Street, New Richmond, OH 45157
    County
    Clermont County
    Status
    Reports to the Toxics Release Inventory (active)
    EPA program ID
    45157SCDYN200MA
    EPA registry ID
    110000561384

    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 (4)

  1. Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)2024-04-09 · New Richmond
    Reported
    2024-04-09
    What spilled
    Fuel Diesel / Diesel Fuel (Vehicle On Or Off Road)
    Where
    New Richmond, Clermont County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SWDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2404EPA0000570

    Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  2. Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon Reached water2023-05-09 · New Richmond
    Reported
    2023-05-09
    What spilled
    Sheen Rainbow / Hydrocarbon
    Reached a waterway
    Ohio River
    Where
    New Richmond, Clermont County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SWDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2305EPA0000755

    Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  3. Oil Mineral / Baby Oil / White Oil / Liquid Paraffin2022-06-19 · New Richmond
    Reported
    2022-06-19
    What spilled
    Oil Mineral / Baby Oil / White Oil / Liquid Paraffin; Oil Transformer Non Pcb
    Largest amount reported
    30 gallons
    Where
    New Richmond, Clermont County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SWDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2206EPA0000921

    Ohio EPA spill reports (source) ↗ Street map and directions ↗

  4. Construction Demolition Debris / (Candd) Reached water2021-01-19 · New Richmond
    Reported
    2021-01-19
    What spilled
    Construction Demolition Debris / (Candd)
    Reached a waterway
    13 - Ohio River
    Where
    New Richmond, Clermont County
    Ohio EPA district office
    SWDO
    Ohio EPA case number
    2101EPA0000071

    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 New Richmond, with the share of its residents who live here and the same headline figures as the ZIP page.

ZIPShareWaterRadon Home valueSchoolsFlood
45157 Monroe Township and New Richmond 28% Eleven vertical wells and one collector well in the Ohio River valley aquifer at Clermontville and Moscow 3.9 pCi/L average radon Median year built 1986 New Richmond Exempted Village · 3.5 stars overall 13% of residents in the 1% floodplain

Local government

Who holds office in New Richmond, how its elections and ballot issues came out, and the state auditor's record.

Money issues on the ballot since 2016: 0 of 1 passed.

Ballot issues

DateIssueForAgainstResult
2016-11-08 Issue: 5. New Richmond Village Tax Levy - EMS 388781Failed (33.19% for)

Elections for office

DateOfficeCandidates and votes
2025-11-04 Member of Council Nick Wolf 406, 27.68%; Mary G. Allen 349, 23.79%; Andrew Leonard 335, 22.84%; Angela Jetter 329, 22.43%; Write-In: David A. Peters 48, 3.27%
2023-11-07 Member of Council Richard Feldkamp 497, 39.01%; Larry Prues 406, 31.87%; Brad Jacobs 371, 29.12%
2023-11-07 Mayor Glenn Ewing 719, 100.0%
2021-11-02 Member of Council Ryan M. Woodruff 291, 20.67%; Dennis Dalton 247, 17.54%; Mary Allen 215, 15.27%; Jon Tharpe 210, 14.91%; Tonja Simmons 170, 12.07%; Write-In: Nick Wolf 144, 10.23%; Minta Colvin 131, 9.3%
2019-11-05 Member of Council Richard Feldkamp 368, 39.7%; Larry Prues 343, 37.0%; Minta Colvin 216, 23.3%
2019-11-05 Mayor Glenn Ewing 309, 55.88%; Ramona Carr 244, 44.12%
2015-11-03 Member of Council Richard Feldkamp 449, 59.71%; Paul Vanderbosch 303, 40.29%
2015-11-03 Mayor Ramona Carr 484, 100.0%

Winners in bold. Results from the county board of elections' official canvass unless marked.

Auditor of State record

The county

Clermont County: 16 ZIP codes, 26 cities, villages and townships, 218,581 people.

Nearby places

Monroe Township, Clermont County Ohio Township, Clermont County Pierce Township, Clermont County Tate Township, Clermont County Washington Township, Clermont County

Rain and snow

How much has actually fallen on New Richmond, day by day, from 1893 to now. Daily totals, not averages.

rain, last 30 days
0.82 in
2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30
rain so far in 2026
40.9 in
2.4 in above normal for the date
snow so far in 2026
14.1 in
a normal year brings 10.4 in
a normal year
45.0 in
average of 30 years, 1991-2020
The last twelve months
MonthRain (in)Snow (in)Days counted
October 2026 0.82 — 30
September 2026 4.20 — 30
August 2026 4.66 — 31
July 2026 5.41 — 31
June 2026 6.56 — 30
May 2026 6.30 — 31
April 2026 3.98 — 30
March 2026 6.39 0.3 31
February 2026 1.05 5.7 28
January 2026 1.48 8.2 31
December 2025 2.88 10.5 31
November 2025 3.91 1.6 30
On the record, 1893–2026
Wettest year2011 — 61.2 in
Driest year1934 — 19.5 in
Snowiest year1917 — 42.7 in
Wettest day on record4 July 1931 — 5.64 in
Heaviest snowfall in a day8 December 1917 — 12.01 in
Deepest snow on the ground21 January 1978 — 16.08 in

Mostly estimated. Only 8% of these days come from a gauge standing inside New Richmond - the rest are worked out from the nearest gauges around it, so read them as close estimates rather than readings.

48,728 days of records, 1893-01-01 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 New Richmond: 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
19
those placed on the map inside New Richmond

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:

  • FORMER BECKJORD GENERATING STATION (underground injection wells, latest May 26, 2023)
What kind of permits
ProgramFacilities and sites
Wetland and stream fill4
State water loans3
Underground injection wells3
Hazardous waste2
Wastewater and stormwater discharge2
Air pollution1
Public drinking water1
Sewer and water-line construction1
Source-water protection1
State sewer loans1
The latest filings
DateFacility or siteWhat
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water report
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water inspection
NEW RICHMOND DEVELOPMENT CORP LLC Air pollution inspection
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE OF Public drinking water notice of violation
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water plan
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water notice of violation
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS State water loans
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water violation resolved
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water inspection
RIVER DAYS CAMPGROUND PHASE 2 Wastewater and stormwater discharge permit
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS State water loans
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Source-water protection report
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water compliance letter
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water inspection
NEW RICHMOND RIVERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water violation resolved
NEW RICHMOND RIVERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
NEW RICHMOND RIVERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
NEW RICHMOND RIVERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
NEW RICHMOND RIVERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS Wetland and stream fill permit
NEW RICHMOND VILLAGE PWS Public drinking water notice of violation

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 New Richmond, Ohio in?

New Richmond is a village in Clermont County, Ohio, with 2,727 residents.

When was New Richmond, Ohio founded?

New Richmond was settled 1797; laid out 1814-09-19; incorporated 1828-01-11. Founders on record: Jacob Light (first cabin, 1797; platted the village, September 1814); merged with the adjoining village of Susanna, 1828. Source

How did New Richmond, Ohio get its name?

Family tradition holds that Jacob Light's nephew, present when the village was laid out in 1814, suggested naming it for his own hometown of Richmond, Virginia; the "New" distinguished it from that older city. Source

What ZIP code is New Richmond, Ohio?

Most of New Richmond is in ZIP code 45157.

Where does New Richmond, Ohio get its water?

The main water source for New Richmond (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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