Millville, OH

Millville sits in Butler County between Oxford and Hamilton, where the village streets meet the rolling farm country of Ross Township and Indian Creek. Joseph Van Horn established the village in 1815 after opening a grist mill about a decade earlier, and that mill gives Millville its original reason for being: a small settlement built around a mill, farm trade, and a road network. The village remains part of a township landscape with nearby fields and several larger southwest Ohio communities nearby.

Education and municipal services now tie Millville closely to the wider Ross community. Ross Local School District brings together schools serving the township, including Elda and Morgan elementary schools, Ross Middle School, and Ross High School. The village contracts with Ross Township for road work, security, fire protection, and related services, so everyday administration is shared across the local area. That arrangement fits Millville’s scale: a historic village center set inside a larger rural township, with school, emergency, and road services organized regionally.