City: Melbourne City Size: .83 square miles Population: 458 Median Income: $51,480 Median Home Value: $133,264 Mayor: Ronnie Walton Incorporated: 1912 Melbourne is an unassuming small town situated along the known as Mary Ingles Highway (KY 8). Ronnie Walton, an employee of Campbell County Schools, has been Melbourne’s mayor for 12 years. He has called […]
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California: Meet the smallest incorporated city in Northern Kentucky
City name: California City size: 0.24 Square Miles Population: 83 Median income: $59,458 Median home value: $102,925 Mayor: Emma Neises Incorporated: 1874 California is the least populous incorporated city in Northern Kentucky, with only 83 residents living on 0.24 square miles. The city was founded in 1849 and named after the Gold Rush that was […]
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Crestview: A tiny, quiet city in the shadow of a post-war housing boom
City name: Crestview City size: 0.10 square miles Population: 426 Median income: $77,714 Median home value: $136,785 Mayor: Shane Owens Incorporated: 1950 Driving the streets of Crestview, Kentucky, it’s impossible not to notice an abundance of Cape Cod-style homes, built in the late 1940s as an answer to the post-war housing boom. Originating in New […]
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Suburban Northern Kentucky: Remembering the old and appreciating the new
“Where the city meets the country.” This is the official motto of the city of Alexandria, a small, unassuming home-rule city in central Campbell County nestled along scenic US 27. It’s a 25-minute drive south of Cincinnati and serves as one of the two dual county seats for Campbell County. It emulates many other growing […]
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Rural Northern Kentucky Residents Say They Have the Best of Both Worlds
Before second grade, Rachel Franzen played in the creek and picked wildflowers for her mom in the hayfields on her neighbor’s land that stretched around her parent’s property in California, Kentucky. When Franzen was in second grade, her neighbors sold their field, and a subdivision took its place. “Even that climate jump was very strange […]