Sunday, December 12, 1999
Annexations of Lemon Township
Since 1964, annexations have reduced Lemon Township from 36 square miles to about 3 square miles.
But the annexations began before the turn of the century. The following is a chronology.
Middletown annexations, totaling about 14,091 acres, include:
• 1844-1892: Four annexations, 1,661 acres and 2.5 square miles including the Lakeside area.
• 1900-1949: 11 annexations, including 3,104 acres and nearly five square miles, including the area of Middletown Regional Hospital and Wildwood.
• 1950s: Seven annexations took 4,351 acres, nearly 7 square miles, including North Middletown area, and some Armco Steel lands.
• 1960s: Nine annexations totaling 3,152 acres, nearly five square miles, including Mayfield and more Armco lands.
• 1970s: Two annexations totaling about 523 acres and just under 1 square mile, including the MADE industrial park area.
• 1990s: 11 annexations, totaling about 1,300 acres and nearly 3.5 square miles, including large chunks in Amanda, Oneida and Blue Ball.
Monroe annexations, totaling about 7,528 acres, include:
• 1929-1950: About 70 acres including Ohio Avenue, then Lebanon Street and Timrick Place.
• 1954-1959: About 3,435 acres, including sections that expanded the city to what is now the Interstate 75 area for the first time, as well as Ohio 63, and land surrounding the existing portion of Monroe in a nearly 2-mile radius, and a large section in the area of Todhunter and Yankee roads.
• 1960s: An estimated 389 acres, including part of Cincinnati-Dayton Road.
• 1970s: About 68 acres.
• 1990s: 457 acres of Whispering Oaks subdivision, another 685 acres from the railroad west to the Great Miami River and Americana Amusement Park; about 680 acres at Ohio 4 and Ohio 63; 515 acres of primarily industrial land along Salzman Road, Ohio 63 and Hankins Road; 491 acres along Ohio 4 near Niederlander Lane' and 164 acres around Ohio 4.
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