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The City of Hamilton is situated in Butler County, located in southwestern Ohio. Hamilton's close proximity relative to the metropolitan areas of Cincinnati (25 miles south) and Dayton (35 miles north) place it at the center of expanding markets and a highly skilled work force.

Hamilton first appeared on the Map in 1791 as Fort Hamilton, a frontier outpost on the east bank of the Great Miami River. The fort was named after Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury. The area's first settlers were land speculators and Revolutionary War Veterans. When Ohio was admitted as a state in 1803, Hamilton was designated the county seat of newly-created Butler County, even though the town had a population of less than 200 people. Because of its river location, Hamilton's first industries, textiles and paper, were directly related to water. However, with the arrival of large numbers of German immigrants in the 1830s and 1840s, the industrial scope of Hamilton expanded rapidly. Today, Hamilton is the governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural, center of Butler County. With a population of over 65,000, the City offers the cultural amenities and history of a large city in a suburban setting.