{{Short description|State highway in Clermont County, Ohio, US}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |state=OH |type=SR |route=222 |maint=ODOT |length_mi=29.14 |length_round=2 |length_ref=<ref name="SLD_222CLE">{{cite web |url=http://www.odotonline.org/techservapps/SLD/pdf_files/harsr0195r.pdf |title=Technical Services Straight Line Diagrams: SR 222, Clermont County |author=Ohio Department of Transportation |author-link=Ohio Department of Transportation |accessdate=2011-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311061250/http://www.odotonline.org/techservapps/SLD/pdf_files/harsr0195r.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |established=1923<ref name=ODOT1922_map /><ref name=ODOT1923_map /> |map=OH 222 map.svg |direction_a=South |terminus_a={{jct|state=OH|US|52}} near Chilo |junction= |direction_b=North |terminus_b={{jct|state=OH|US|50}} in Batavia |counties=Clermont |previous_type=SR |previous_route=221 |next_type=US |next_route=223 }}
'''State Route 222''' ('''SR 222''') is a {{convert|29.14|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} north–south state highway in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The southern terminus of SR 222 is at U.S. Route 52 (US 52) in the village of Chilo. Its northern terminus is at a signalized T-intersection with US 50 approximately {{convert|3.50|mi|km}} northwest of Batavia.
==Route description== The entirety of SR 222 is situated within Clermont County. No section of this state route is included within the National Highway System (NHS), a network of highways that are deemed most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the nation.<ref name="NHS">{{cite map | title=National Highway System: Ohio | date=December 2003 | publisher=Federal Highway Administration | url=http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhs/maps/oh/oh_Ohio.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016165827/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhs/maps/oh/oh_Ohio.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 16, 2008 | format=PDF|accessdate=2011-05-07}}</ref>
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==History== The designation of SR 222 took place in 1923. Originally, the highway was routed from its present southern terminus in Chilo to its junction with the former SR 25 in Monroe Township.<ref name=ODOT1922_map>{{cite map |title=Map of Ohio State Highways |url=http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/TransSysDev/Innovation/prod_services/Documents/StateMaps/otm1922a.sid |format=MrSID |publisher=Ohio Department of Highways and Public Works |date=April 1922 |cartography=ODHPW |accessdate=2011-05-07}}</ref><ref name=ODOT1923_map>{{cite map |title=Map of Ohio Showing State Routes |url=http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/TransSysDev/Innovation/prod_services/Documents/StateMaps/otm1923a.sid |format=MrSID |publisher=Ohio Department of Highways and Public Works |date=July 1923 |cartography=ODHPW |accessdate=2011-05-07}}</ref> SR 222 was extended to the north in 1937, traveling from SR 125 in Batavia Township to its current northern terminus at US 50.<ref name=ODOT1936_map>{{cite map |title=Official Ohio Highway Map |url=http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/TransSysDev/Innovation/prod_services/Documents/StateMaps/otm1936a.sid |format=MrSID |publisher=Ohio Department of Highways |date=1936 |cartography=ODOH |accessdate=2011-05-07}}</ref><ref name=ODOT1937_map>{{cite map |title=Official Ohio Highway Map |url=http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/TransSysDev/Innovation/prod_services/Documents/StateMaps/otm1937a.sid |format=MrSID |publisher=Ohio Department of Highways |date=1937 |cartography=ODOH |accessdate=2011-05-07}}</ref>
==Major intersections== {{OHinttop|length_ref=<ref name="SLD_222CLE"/>|county=Clermont}} {{OHint |location=Chilo |mile=0.00 |road={{jct|state=OH|US|52|name1=Main Street|road|Green Street|city1=New Richmond|city2=Higginsport}} |notes=Southern terminus}} {{OHint |ctdab=Clermont |location=Franklin Township |type=concur |mile=3.36 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|133|dir1=South}} |notes=Southern end of SR 133 concurrency }} {{OHint |location=Felicity |lspan=2 |type=concur |mile=4.71 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|133|dir1=North|OH|756|dir2=East|name2=Light Street}} |notes=Northern end of SR 133 concurrency; southern end of SR 756 concurrency}} {{OHint |type=concur |mile=4.99 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|756|dir1=West|name1=Light Street|road|Mulberry Street}} |notes=Northern end of SR 756 concurrency}} {{OHint |ctdab=Clermont |location=Washington Township |mile=9.52 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|743|dir1=West|name1=Bees Run Road|city1=Moscow}} |notes=Eastern terminus of SR 743}} {{OHint |ctdab=Clermont |location=Tate Township |lspan=2 |type=concur |mile=11.83 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|232|dir1=South|city1=Point Pleasant|road|Salt Air Road}} |notes=Southern end of SR 232 concurrency}} {{OHint |type=concur |mile=12.56 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|232|dir1=North}} |notes=Northern end of SR 232 concurrency}} {{OHint |ctdab=Clermont |location=Batavia Township |lspan=2 |type=concur |mile=17.95 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|125|dir1=East|city1=Bethel}} |notes=Southern end of SR 125 concurrency}} {{OHint |type=concur |mile=19.41 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|125|dir1=West|city1=Amelia|name1=Ohio Pike}} |notes=Northern end of SR 125 concurrency}} {{OHint |location=Batavia |lspan=2 |type=concur |mile=25.00 |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|132|dir1=South|location1=UC Clermont}} |notes=Southern end of SR 132 concurrency }} {{OHint |road={{jct|state=OH|OH|32|OH|132|dir2=North|city1=Williamsburg|location2=Cincinnati|city3=Owensville}} |type=concur |mile=25.67 |notes=Interchange; northern end of SR 132 concurrency}} {{OHint |ctdab=Clermont |location=Stonelick Township |mile=29.14 |road={{jct|state=OH|US|50|city1=Owensville|city2=Milford}} |notes=}} {{OHintbtm|keys=concur}}
==References== {{Attached KML}} {{Portal|Ohio|U.S. Roads}} {{Reflist}}
222 Category:Transportation in Clermont County, Ohio