Miami Valley

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The Miami Valley, broadly, refers to the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio, USA, and also includes the Little Miami, Mad, and Stillwater Rivers as well. Geographically it includes, Dayton, Middletown, Hamilton, and other communities.

Most commonly, however, it refers to the economic and cultural-social region centered primarily on Dayton and the greater Dayton area, including TV and radio markets. Middletown and Hamilton both fall under the economic and cultural-social influence of Cincinnati and thus, do not commonly use the term in this sense. Institutions and enterprises in the Dayton area, such as Miami Valley Career Technology Center, Miami Valley Hospital [1], Miami Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America [2], as well as Upper Valley Medical Center (Troy) [3] illustrate local usage.

[edit] Possible Dayton-Cincinnati Merger

According to an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer, as Greater Cincinnati grows northward through Butler County, it is expected to eventually merge with Greater Dayton by 2010, thereby virtually erasing any distinguishable boundary between the two current MSAs. As a result, the US Census Bureau will begin reporting the Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas as one by that time. The new Cincinnati-Dayton metroplex will be comparable in nature to that of Dallas-Ft. Worth's and place it within the top 10 most populous metros in the US with a population of nearly 3.1 million.[4]

Local television stations WDTN,WHIO-TV and WRGT include the following counties and cities in the cultural Miami Valley:

Montgomery County (Dayton)
Greene County (Xenia)
Preble County (Eaton)
Clark County (Springfield)
Miami County (Troy)
Darke County (Greenville)
Champaign County (Urbana)
Shelby County (Sidney)
Logan County (Bellefontaine)
Butler and Warren counties (Middletown)
Wayne County, Indiana (Richmond, Indiana)

Additionally, WHIO includes the following locations in its news and weather coverage:

	State of Ohio Columbus (capital)
Topics	History \| Government \| Colleges and universities
Regions	Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau \| Glaciated Allegheny Plateau \| Glacial till plains \| Lake Erie \| Lake Erie Islands \| Black Swamp \| Miami Valley \| Western Reserve \| Northwest Ohio
Largest cities	Akron \| Canton \| Cincinnati \| Cleveland \| Columbus \| Cuyahoga Falls \| Dayton \| Elyria \| Euclid \| Hamilton \| Kettering \| Lakewood \| Lorain \| Mansfield \| Mentor \| Middletown \| Parma \| Springfield \| Toledo \| Youngstown
Metros	Cincinnati \| Cleveland‑Akron‑Canton \| Columbus \| Dayton \| Toledo \| Youngstown‑Warren‑Boardman \| Lima‑Van Wert‑Wapakoneta
Counties	Adams \| Allen \| Ashland \| Ashtabula \| Athens \| Auglaize \| Belmont \| Brown \| Butler \| Carroll \| Champaign \| Clark \| Clermont \| Clinton \| Columbiana \| Coshocton \| Crawford \| Cuyahoga \| Darke \| Defiance \| Delaware \| Erie \| Fairfield \| Fayette \| Franklin \| Fulton \| Gallia \| Geauga \| Greene \| Guernsey \| Hamilton \| Hancock \| Hardin \| Harrison \| Henry \| Highland \| Hocking \| Holmes \| Huron \| Jackson \| Jefferson \| Knox \| Lake \| Lawrence \| Licking \| Logan \| Lorain \| Lucas \| Madison \| Mahoning \| Marion \| Medina \| Meigs \| Mercer \| Miami \| Monroe \| Montgomery \| Morgan \| Morrow \| Muskingum \| Noble \| Ottawa \| Paulding \| Perry \| Pickaway \| Pike \| Portage \| Preble \| Putnam \| Richland \| Ross \| Sandusky \| Scioto \| Seneca \| Shelby \| Stark \| Summit \| Trumbull \| Tuscarawas \| Union \| Van Wert \| Vinton \| Warren \| Washington \| Wayne \| Williams \| Wood \| Wyandot