Butler County Veterans Highway
Route description
In 2024, the section of SR 129 along the Reily–Morgan township line from the Indiana state line to Chapel Road was designated in honor of Sgt. Anthony M. K. Vinnedge, near his hometown of Okeana. Vinnedge, a 24-year-old, 2001 graduate of Talawanda High School, was killed on July 5, 2007, in Iraq, while serving with Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 107th Armor Cavalry Regiment in the Ohio Army National Guard. Vinnedge enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2002, serving on active duty for three years, later serving in the Ohio Army National Guard as a Patriot Missile battery operator. During his second tour in Iraq, he was stationed at the Radwaniyah Palace Complex when he was killed. Vinnedge is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton.
Butler County Veterans Highway
Butler County Veterans Highway is signed as SR 129 and is a limited access highway from Hamilton to its terminus at Interstate 75. The highway was conceived in the early 1970s as a link to I-75 from Hamilton. At the time, Hamilton was the second largest city in the U.S. without a direct connection to an Interstate. The highway has had three names. The original name was the Butler County Regional Highway. Shortly after the highway was built, the highway was renamed the Michael A. Fox Highway in honor of an incumbent Butler County Commissioner and former state legislator. In 2004 the highway was renamed to the Butler County Veterans Highway.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Butler County.
| Location | mi | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reily–Morgan township line | 0.00 | 0.00 |     SR 126 east (Cincinnati Brookville Road) / SR 252 west – Brookville, Venice | Western terminus; western terminus of SR 126; eastern terminus of SR 252 | ||
| Reily–Morgan township line | 3.02 | 4.86 |   SR 732 north (Sample Road) – Oxford, Eaton | Southern terminus of SR 732 | ||
| Millville | 8.24 | 13.26 |   SR 748 south (Millville Shandon Road) – Shandon | Northern terminus of SR 748 | ||
| 8.76 | 14.10 |  US 27 south – Ross, Cincinnati | Western end of US 27 concurrency | |||
| 9.05 | 14.56 | US 27 north – Oxford, Liberty, Richmond | Eastern end of US 27 concurrency | |||
| Hamilton | 13.71 | 22.06 |  SR 177 north – Morning Sun, Boston, Richmond, Union City | |||
| 14.71 | 23.67 |    US 127 to SR 128 (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) – Eaton, Fairfield, Ross, Cincinnati | ||||
| 15.30 | 24.62 |  SR 4 (Erie Boulevard) – Middletown, Dayton, Fairfield, Cincinnati | ||||
| Fairfield Township | 17.83 | 28.69 | Western terminus of freeway | |||
| 18 |  SR 4 Byp. – Middletown, Fairfield | |||||
| Liberty Township | 20.62 | 33.18 | 21 |  SR 747 – Middletown, Woodlawn | ||
| 24.56 | 39.53 | 24 |  Cincinnati Dayton Road – Childrens (Liberty Campus) | |||
| 25.44– 25.86 | 40.94– 41.62 | 25B |   I-75 north – Dayton | Eastbound left exit and westbound entrance; I-75 exit 24 | ||
| 25A |  I-75 south – Cincinnati | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||||
| Cox Road / Veterans Blvd | Eastern terminus; roundabout | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ Ohio Department of Transportation. "Technical Services Straight Line Diagrams" (PDF). Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- ^ Pitman, Michael D. (December 23, 2024). "Fallen Butler County soldier to be honored in his hometown". Dayton Daily News. Archived from the original on December 30, 2024. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
- ^ Cincinnati Transit Net
- ^ Cincinnati Enquirer June 2, 2004