Ceredo is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Ohio River.

Ceredo is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

On November 14, 1970, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane carrying the Marshall University football team crashed on a hillside on approach to the Tri-State Airport, killing all 75 on board.

[6] New England Congregationalists under the American Emigrant Aid and Homestead Company founded Ceredo to demonstrate the superiority of an economic system not based on slave labor.

Ceredo was the only town established by Thayer and the Homestead Company due to financial issues.

With John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, the situation for this abolitionist colony appeared bleak.

Its purpose to bring about the peaceful end of slavery over, several residents volunteered for pro-Union regiments.

By the end of the war, much of the industry had been destroyed and a majority of the northern emigrants had fled.

Hoard and his descendants rebuilt Ceredo into a small town, although the community never reached the original vision of Thayer and the Homestead Company.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.