Phillipsburg, OH

Phillipsburg is a village in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 498 residents. Phillipsburg is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. Phillipsburg was platted in 1836, and named for Philip Studybaker, a member of the town company. Phillipsburg Elementary School was closed in 2009, with its students being sent to Union Elementary School, and the property was sold to a private owner in the following November. The short version is that Phillipsburg carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Phillipsburg: its past remains attached to the places people use now. A post office was established as Centre in 1848, the name was changed to Center in 1893, and changed again to Phillipsburg in 1903. Phillipsburg is home to 35 aircraft.