Editing Blue Ash, Ohio (section)

==History==
The area that is now Blue Ash was settled around 1791. In 1797, the first settlers built Carpenter's Run Baptist Church out of [[Fraxinus quadrangulata|blue ash]] logs, giving the area its eventual name.<ref name="Brief history">{{cite web|title=Brief History of Blue Ash|publisher=City of Blue Ash, Ohio|access-date=2011-08-28|url=http://www.blueash.com/content/81/91/103/826/default.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012020339/http://www.blueash.com/content/81/91/103/826/default.aspx|archive-date=2013-10-12}}</ref>

In the late 19th century, the [[Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway]] provided [[Narrow-gauge railway|narrow-gauge]] [[commuter rail]] service to Blue Ash.

Blue Ash was the site of [[Cincinnati–Blue Ash Airport]] from 1921 to 2012. Originally a private airfield called Grisard Field, it was sold to the City of Cincinnati in 1946, becoming Ohio's first municipal airport. Cincinnati desired to expand the airport for major commercial service through the 1950s,<ref name="Transit airport">{{cite web| title=Blue Ash Airport| first=Jake| last=Mecklenborg| work=Cincinnati-Transit.net| date=2008-02-14| access-date=2011-08-28| url=http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/blueash.html}}</ref> but Blue Ash fought the city by incorporating first as a village in 1955 and then as a city in 1961.<ref name="Brief history" /> Eventually, through Reed Hartman's Community Improvement Corporation, Cincinnati developed the surrounding area as an industrial park and golf course. The airport closed on August 29, 2012, and the property was sold to the City of Blue Ash, which opened Summit Park on the property.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elevar.com/work/service/summit-park-development-master-plan-planning/|title=summit park master plan|access-date=2023-08-05}}</ref>

In 1998, the [[Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority]] proposed a [[MetroMoves]] [[light rail]] system with a Green Line that would initially run {{convert|19|mi|km|adj=on}} from Blue Ash to [[Covington, Kentucky]]. A future phase would have extended the line further north to [[Kings Island]] and south to the [[Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport]]. However, MetroMoves was rejected by Hamilton County voters.

On [[April 1999 Cincinnati tornado#April 9 event|April 9, 1999]], Blue Ash experienced an F4 tornado that caused four deaths.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.weather.gov/iln/BlueAshAnniversary|title=The Blue Ash/Symmes Township Tornado: 25 Years Later|publisher=Wilmington, OH Weather Forecast Office, NOAA|access-date=2024-04-05}}</ref>