Your Guide to Buying a Home in Kettering, OH

Buying a Home in Kettering, Ohio

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Kettering is located in Greene & Montgomery County

The city of Kettering is known for its' progress and innovation and safe, well maintained schools. Evening summers can be enjoyed at the Fraze Pavilion for the performing arts, a 4,500 seat amphitheater. Kettering offers 21 city parks with more than 300 acres. With a 145,000 sq. ft. recreation complex and some 500 programs, plus indoor pool and ice arena. We can meet all your recreational needs.

The earliest settler in what is now Kettering was John Patterson, a farmer who built the area's first log cabin in 1798. In 1841, an expanding population forced the creation of Van Buren Township, a name that would remain for more than 100 years.

In November of 1952, voters of Van Buren Township approved the incorporation of the Village of Kettering, named for its most outstanding citizen, the famous philanthropist and inventor of the automobile self-starter, Charles. F. Kettering. A special census in 1955 recorded the village population at 38,118 qualifying it for city status.

Kettering was proclaimed a city on June 24, 1955, by the Secretary of the State of Ohio. Voters approved adoption of a Home Rule Charter and Council-Manager form of government, which went into effect on January 1, 1956. Seven council representatives are elected for four-year terms on a non-partisan basis, one from each of the four districts and two at-large, plus the mayor.

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