Christiansburg, OH

Christiansburg is a Champaign County village in the southwestern corner of Ohio, with a 2020 population of 505. The village was platted in 1817 and named for Christiansburg, Virginia, the home of one of its first settlers. A post office has operated here since 1833, giving the community a long connection to mail routes and the rural roads that bring the surrounding countryside into town. Its streets sit within the farm country west of Urbana and south of the larger county network.

Christiansburg’s size makes its old civic pieces easy to recognize. The village government, post office, local roads, and nearby schools all serve a place that has kept its name for more than two centuries of settlement. The present-day village is modest, but its history reaches from the first plat to the continuing postal address. That continuity gives Christiansburg a clear local shape: a small Ohio village whose name points back to a Virginia hometown and whose daily connections still run through the surrounding Champaign County countryside.