Kanauga, Ohio

About Kanauga

Set in the southern part of Ohio, Kanauga is a small unincorporated community.

Kanauga holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.29 square miles.

📰 Kanauga News Today

• William Hughes Obituary - Dayton, OH Dignity Memorial · Aug 31
• 50th anniversary of the Silver Bridge collapse The Columbus Dispatch · Dec 15
• Crews recover pieces of Silver Bridge 50 years after collapse into the Ohio River WCHS · Jun 12
• Jim Ross: Keep Mothman out of Silver Bridge remembrance (Opinion) - herald-dispatch.com herald-dispatch.com · Dec 15
• Remembering the 46 Silver Bridge collapse victims in West Virginia, Ohio 55 years later WOWK 13 News · Dec 15

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

📰 Local News

Read the latest Ohio headlines on our news site, Bless News Daily.

What Makes Kanauga Unique

• The only place in America named Kanauga — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.29 sq mi.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southern Ohio, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• A tight community feel that bigger cities can't replicate.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 3 miles.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Kanauga

• Ichiban Hibachi Steakhouse — japanese
• Bob Evans — american
• Boba Hut — coffee shop (café)
• Buffalo Wild Wings — wings

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · click a restaurant to read or write reviews.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Kanauga

• Tu-Endie-Wei Point Pleasant Battle Monument State Park reviews ★
• Point Pleasant Riverfront Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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🌤️ Current Weather

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