Trauma and Death Cleanup in Sharonville and Evendale

Houses, apartments and parkland between the factories

Sharonville had 6,628 housing units in 2020, with a homeowner vacancy rate under 1 percent but a rental vacancy rate near 10 percent, a sign of a sizable apartment market. Evendale's 1,073 units are spread thin, at roughly 560 people per square mile, a low density for a village this close to Cincinnati, with Gorman Heritage Farm inside its limits.

Shared walls change the job. In a Sharonville apartment building, odor and fluids can move under baseboards or through a shared ceiling, and the crew may need to check the unit next door. A detached Evendale house usually keeps the problem in one structure, but may have a finished basement or attached garage that needs a look.

Interstates, creeks and the park in the middle

Sharonville sits along both I-75 and I-275, and the city's convention center draws out-of-town traffic to the area. Reading Road runs north and south through both towns, and Glendale-Milford Road, which old village records call By Pass 50, serves Evendale too. Mill Creek, which the city lists among its natural features, also runs through Sharonville.

Sharon Woods, the 723-acre Great Parks property at 11450 Lebanon Road, takes up a large block of the map, with Sharon Lake and the Sharon Creek gorge inside it. Its roads do not cut through to every neighborhood, so give the provider an exact address and the nearest cross street when you call.

Police, coroner and the handoff to the owner

Sharonville Police work out of 3639 East Kemper Road. Evendale's department, started in 1952 with a chief and two patrolmen in a rented wood-frame building off Glendale-Milford Road, is now at 10500 Reading Road. Either agency may call in the Hamilton County Coroner's Office, which moved in 2021 to newer quarters off Carver Woods Drive, a short drive south in Blue Ash.

Once the Blue Ash office has finished its inquiry, sent the person on to a funeral home and handed back any personal items, its part is done. Police likewise leave once the scene is documented. Neither agency removes stained flooring or disinfects a room, so the next decision belongs to the homeowner, the executor, or the landlord of a Sharonville apartment complex.

For a business on Reading Road or near the Ford plant, the building owner or property manager usually signs off on cleanup. Find out on day one which Sharonville manager can sign the work order and who will talk to the carrier.

Where ZIP 45241 reaches

The single ZIP for this page, 45241, carries a Cincinnati mailing name. The postal list also accepts Blue Ash, Sharonville and West Chester. It covers Sharonville's downtown at Main Street and Reading Road, the neighborhoods around Sharon Woods off Lebanon Road, all of Evendale, and the northern edge of Blue Ash.

Part of 45241 crosses into West Chester Township in Butler County, where a slice of Sharonville also sits. Butler County is served by the same 513 referral line, so a home on either side of the county line can use this number. Just give the street address so the call reaches a provider working that county.

Two towns that grew up around big plants

Sharonville began as a settlement called Sharon in 1788, became a village in 1911 and a city in 1962. Its largest employer is the Ford transmission plant, opened in 1958 on 182 acres with about 2.4 million square feet of floor space. The 2020 Census counted 14,117 residents, a few of them over the line in Butler County.

Evendale is younger and smaller. The village formed in 1952, after General Electric's engine plant was already running nearby, and it set up its own police force by ordinance that same year. GE Aerospace still keeps its headquarters complex here, and the 2020 count put the village at 2,669 people.

That history explains why a cleanup call from 45241 is as likely to involve a warehouse, a hotel off the interstate or a shop floor as it is a bedroom. Commercial jobs bring a facility manager and a company insurer into the room, along with the family.