Okeana, Ohio

Okeana, originally known as Tariff, is an unincorporated community in central Morgan Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States.^[1] It is located on Dry Fork Creek, a tributary of the Great Miami River, on State Route 126 about three miles northwest of Shandon in sections 21 and 26 of R1ET3N of the Congress Lands. It is a mile north of Alert, a mile east of Macedonia, and ten miles southwest of Hamilton. The bulk of addresses served by the Okeana post office are in the Ross Local School District, but parts of the region are in the Southwest Local School District.

A post office was established there in 1828 as Tariff, but the name was changed to Okeana on May 27, 1858, after the daughter of the Indian chief Kiatta, for whom a stream in Morgan Township is named. The town was laid out by the Rev. Benjamin Lloyd.^[2]

Notes

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Okeana
↑ Bartlow, Bert Surene (1905). Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio. B. F. Bowen. p. 352.

References

Butler County Engineer's Office. Butler County Official Transportation Map, 2003. Fairfield Township, Butler County, Ohio: The Office, 2003.
A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers. Cincinnati, Ohio: Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882.

Municipalities and communities of Butler County, Ohio, United States

County seat: Hamilton

Cities	Fairfield‡ Hamilton Middletown‡ Monroe‡ Oxford Sharonville‡ Trenton

Villages	College Corner‡ Jacksonburg Millville New Miami Seven Mile Somerville

Townships	Fairfield Hanover Lemon Liberty Madison Milford Morgan Oxford Reily Ross St. Clair Wayne West Chester

CDPs	Beckett Ridge Darrtown Four Bridges Olde West Chester Ross Wetherington Williamsdale

Unincorporated communities	Alert Bethany Collinsville Excello Gano Maud Miltonville McGonigle Okeana Overpeck Poasttown Port Union Saint Charles Scipio Shandon Tylersville West Middletown Woodsdale

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 39°20′52″N 84°46′03″W / 39.34778°N 84.76750°W / 39.34778; -84.76750

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