The Village of Indian Hill is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb of the Greater Cincinnati area.
Prior to 1970, Indian Hill was incorporated as a village, but under Ohio law became designated as a city once its population was verified as exceeding 5,000.
According to Forbes, which authored a list of the wealthiest zip codes in Ohio in 2023, Indian Hill was in third place, directly behind the villages of Coldstream, another suburb within Greater Cincinnati, and Hunting Valley, just outside of Cleveland.
The Village of Indian Hill began as a farming community which prospered as the nearby Little Miami Railroad provided cost effective shipping to Cincinnati.
They reached Indian Hill on the Swing Line, a train running between downtown Cincinnati and Ramona Station; the site is now the location of Indian Hill's administration building at Drake and Shawnee Run roads.
The rolling country appealed to a group of four Cincinnati businessmen who had built homes there in the early 1920s and envisioned a more ambitious rural settlement, persuading friends to join them in forming the Camargo Realty Company in 1924.
Some were authentic estates, such as the 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) "Peterloon" of John J. Emery, which has since been subdivided into lots as small as 1 acre (4,000 m2).
[7] One hundred percent of Indian Hill is zoned as single-family residential or agricultural.
[8] Its physical characteristics run the gamut from flat, open, grassy fields to heavily wooded, steeply sloped, mature canopy forest.
There are meandering streams, dark pine stands, and intriguing geological formations with a plethora of fossils.
The educational needs of Indian Hill residents are served by the Indian Hill Exempted Village School District (public) and Cincinnati Country Day School (private).
The Indian Hill Exempted Village School District also serves residents residing in parts of Symmes Township (Camp Dennison, Remington, Loveland) and Sycamore Township (Kenwood).