Miamiville is an

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and

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(CDP) in western Miami Township, Clermont County,

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, along the

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and the

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. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 242. It has a

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with the ZIP code 45147.

History

Miamiville was laid out in 1849, and named for the nearby

. A post office called Miamiville has been in operation since 1848. Miamiville's low profile as an unincorporated community was a benefit during the Great Depression, when

Prohibition Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol ...

outlawed alcohol consumption in the United States. The Miami Boat Club operated as a

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during the 1920s and 1930s. Miamiville also played a small role in the Civil War during the Battle of Miamiville as rebels known as

Morgan's Raid Morgan's Raid was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863, and is named for the command ...

s marched toward Camp Dennison and Cincinnati in the 1860s.http://www.colonialwarsoh.org/files/forms/Trilogy/Colonial_Trilogy_4/1._The_Battle_of_Miamiville.pdf

Gallery

File:MiamivilleOhio1.JPG, Miamiville community sign File:MiamivilleOhio2.JPG, Looking west on Center Street in Miamiville File:MiamivilleOhio3.JPG, Miamiville Garage in Miamiville

References

Census-designated places in Clermont County, Ohio {{ClermontCountyOH-geo-stub