The Miami Valley is the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in southwest

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, USA, and includes the Little Miami, Mad, and Stillwater rivers as well. Geographically, it includes

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, Springfield, Middletown,

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, and other communities. The name is derived from the Miami Indians. Commonly, however, it refers to the economic and cultural-social region centered on the Greater Dayton area. Middletown and Hamilton both fall under the economic and cultural-social influence of

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and thus are not commonly included in this sense. Institutions and enterprises in the Dayton area, such as Miami Valley Career Technology Center, Miami Valley Hospital, Miami Valley Young Marines, Miami Valley Council of the

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and Miami Valley Storytellers illustrate local usage.

History

During the mid-twentieth century, among the largest employers in the Valley were

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in Cincinnati, Champion Paper and Fiber in Hamilton, Armco in Middletown, and National Cash Register in Dayton.

Counties and cities

Local television stations WDTN, Think^TV ( WPTD and WPTO), WHIO-TV, WKEF and WRGT include the following counties and cities in the cultural Miami Valley: * Montgomery County (

) * Greene County (

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) * Preble County ( Eaton) * Clark County ( Springfield) * Miami County (

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) * Darke County ( Greenville) * Champaign County ( Urbana) * Shelby County ( Sidney) * Logan County ( Bellefontaine) * Butler County (

) * Warren County (

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) * Wayne County, Indiana ( Richmond) * Mercer County ( Celina) * Auglaize County ( Wapakoneta) Additionally, WHIO includes the following locations in its news and weather coverage: * Clinton County ( Wilmington) *

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Transportation

Transit

* Butler County Regional Transit Authority - Primarily serves Hamilton, Middletown and Oxford * Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority * Greene CATS Public Transit - Serves Xenia * Rose View Transit - Serves Richmond, IN * Springfield City Area Transit

Major highways

* Interstate 75 - Runs north to south along the valley and through downtown Dayton. * Interstate 70 - Traverses the valley from east to west. * Interstate 71 - Runs north to south along the eastern half of the Miami Valley. * Interstate 675 -

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Dayton from I-75 south of the city to I-70 east of it. * U.S. Route 35 - Runs east to west through the Dayton metro area. * U.S. Route 68 - Runs north to south through farmlands in the eastern Miami Valley. *

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- Runs north to south through several cities and rural communities in the western Miami Valley. * Ohio State Route 129 - Connects Hamilton to I-75. * Ohio State Route 49 - Forms a bypass west of Dayton and continues north into Darke County.

Demographics

As Greater Cincinnati grows northward through Butler County, it could conceivably merge with Greater Dayton by 2030, thereby virtually erasing any boundary between the two current Combined Statistical Areas (CSA). As a result, the

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could begin reporting the Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas as one by that time, though it would be up to the U.S.

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to make the merger decision. The new Cincinnati–Dayton metropolitan area would be comparable in size to that of the Orlando–Deltona–Daytona Beach, FL CSA and place it within the top 20 most populous metros in the US, with a population of nearly 3.0 million.A combined Cincinnati-Dayton metropolitan comes closer to reality
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History

Counties and cities

Transportation

Transit

Major highways

Demographics

See also

References

Further reading