Kidron, Ohio
census-designated place in Wayne County, Ohio, United States
Kidron is a census-designated place in southwestern Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The population was 966 at the 2020 census.
History
Kidron was originally settled in 1819 by a group of Swiss Mennonites wishing to escape religious persecution and poor farming conditions in their homeland in the Sonnenberg area of Switzerland near the Jura Mountains. In Switzerland, the Swiss Mennonites were referred to as "Die Stillen im Lande" meaning "the quiet people in the country." They originally named their new home Sonnenberg, but later this gave way to the present day name of Kidron.
Education
Residents may attend a small public school in the nearby village of Dalton. The Kidron Elementary School was recently torn down (2014), however a new school building (in Dalton) for kindergarten through 8th grade was just built and used in the 2014–2015 school year.
Central Christian School is a private K–12 school located in Kidron, and is owned and operated by the Ohio Conference of the Mennonite Church.
In popular culture
On an episode of the Fox TV series 24 that aired on January 26, 2009, a city named "Kidron, Ohio" was the location of a foiled terrorist attack. The city depicted in the show was many times larger than the actual Kidron; its name was chosen because of its obscurity.
The public source identifies “Kidron, Ohio” as census-designated place in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kidron, Ohio and census-designated.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q568529. VIAF identifies the subject as 136122906. The Library of Congress control number is n86012337. Authority coordinates are 40.741, -81.745. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1819, 2014 and 2015.
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