Mason, Ohio Mason, Ohio Aerial view of Mason Aerial view of Mason Location of Mason, Ohio Location of Mason, Ohio Location of Mason in Warren County Location of Mason in Warren County Mason is a town/city in southwestern Warren County, Ohio, United States, approximately 22 miles (35 km) from downtown Cincinnati.

As of the 2010 census, Mason's populace was 30,712. Mason was transformed into a large, bustling community, and one of the most well-to-do in Greater Cincinnati, beginning in the 1990s.

Mason sits at the core of the Cincinnati-Dayton Metropolitan Region, the 14th biggest urban region in the nation.

In 2013, Mason was ranked seventh in Money Magazine's 2013 Top 50 Best Places to live in the United States. In 2008 and 2011, CNN titled Mason one of the top 100 places to live in the United States. Mason is home to Kings Island amusement park and one of the biggest tennis stadiums in the world, the Lindner Family Tennis Center, home of the Western & Southern Open, one of the world's top tennis tournaments for both men and women.

On June 1, 1803, Revolutionary War veteran William Mason paid $1,700 at auction to purchase 640 acres (2.6 km2) of territory in what is now downtown Mason.

In 1832, two years after the death of William Mason and as stated to his will, more than 40 additional lots were platted on the north, south, and west of Palmira.

Mason remained a small farming improve for another 125 years.

In February 1997, Mason withdrew from encircling Deerfield Township by forming a paper township called Mason Township. The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $89,569, and the median income for a family was $103,459 Males had a median income of $96,002 and females had a median income of $75,968.

About 1.6% of families and 2.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 1.8% of those under age 18 and 4.8% of those age 65 or over.

The town/city is in the Mason City School District.

Mason is served by two interstates, I-71 and I-75.

There were 11,016 homeholds of which 44.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 63.4% were married couples living together, 8.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 25.5% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 32.1% under the age of 18, 5.1% between 18 and 24, 35.3% between 25 and 44, 19.1% between 45 and 64, and 8.4% over the age of 65.

City council is the legislative body of Mason's town/city government, and a town/city manager is appointed by council.

City government is homed primarily at the Mason Municipal Center, a 120,000 square-foot, two-story facility which opened in fall 2002.

The facility homes Mason Municipal Court, the police and fire departments, a improve meeting room and all other town/city departments except enhance works and enhance utilities. Mason is home to seven town/city parks which cover about 300 acres and include fishing lakes, walking trails, ball fields, tennis courts, picnic shelters and playgrounds.

The 199,000 square-foot multi-use Mason Community Center, which opened in 2003, is one of the biggest enhance recreation facilities in the state.

The Mason Veterans Memorial, adjoining to the Mason Municipal Center, was dedicated on Saturday, November 8, 2003.

The Mason Police Department is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).

The City of Mason Police Department operates 17 fully equipped marked police cruisers, eight unmarked police cars, and one D.A.R.E.

The Mason Fire Department has more than 60 fire and emergency medical personnel, including the fire chief, three deputy chiefs, administrative staff, fire inspector, and full or part-time firefighters.

Mason tourist attractions include: Kings Island amusement park and water park; Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park and resort; The Beach water park; and The Lindner Family Tennis Center, which hosts the historic Western & Southern Open men's and women's tennis tournaments, part of the top nine tennis tournaments in the world as part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 series.

Mason's biggest employers include Procter & Gamble's Mason Business Center, the command posts of Luxottica Retail and Cintas corporate headquarters.

Other notable companies with large operations in Mason are Mitsubishi Electric, L-3 Communications and Heinz. Over 500 businesses operate in Mason's 18 square miles.

High-tech companies, corporate headquarters, and light industries are especially thriving to Mason.

More than 90 corporations have command posts or manufacturing operations in Mason's 24 commerce parks. Mason is positioned at 39 21 29 N 84 18 43 W (39.358009, -84.311822). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.67 square miles (48.36 km2), of which 18.63 square miles (48.25 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. Climate data for Mason, Ohio Mason is part of the Cincinnati media market.

Although no broadcast stations are licensed to Mason itself, the town/city is home to the transmitter site of Clear Channel Communications' WLW (700 Cincinnati), which uses one of only seven remaining Blaw-Knox diamond-shaped towers.

Newspapers/websites covering Mason include the Cincinnati Enquirer, Mason - Buzz.com and Today's Pulse.

Due to Mason's adjacency to Dayton, approximately 30 miles north, Dayton radio and tv stations also are easily received in the area.

Mason City Schools is persistently rated one of the top school districts in the state, with a perfect rating of 26 out of 26 indicators on the 2011-2012 Ohio Report Card, as stated to the district's website, Mason - Ohio - Schools.com.

The precinct earned "Excellent with Distinction" from the Ohio Department of Education and had the sixth-highest Performance Index Score in the state.

The Mason City School District has received Ohio Blue Ribbons for Excellence.

The city's property taxes are above encircling area averages and are the school district's primary source of funding.

High school programs in athletics and academics have been prosperous at the state level, earning team state titles in Division I in: Mason has five enhance schools: Mason Early Childhood Center (PK-2), Western Row Elementary School (grades 2-3), Mason Intermediate School (grades 4-6), Mason Middle School (grades 7-8), and William Mason High School.

Mason also has a improve center that connected to the high school.

The last building to open was the Mason Early Childhood ("MECC") which opened in 2006.

Mason City Schools feature broadband networks while supporting over 4,600 classroom computers - There are approximately 2.2 students per computer in the district.

The precinct also supports individual teacher pages for posting work assignments and class knowledge (such as Edline and Mason Comets).

Mason is also home to Sinclair Community College's Courseview Campus, which opened in 2007.

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But based on a quick review, Mason likely would not be able to absorb Deerfield Township if it were dissolved, said Cheryl Subler, policy analyst for the County Commissioner Association of Ohio.

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