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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Blue Ash, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blue Ash City. It lies in ZIP code area 45242. The Survey maps it on the Cincinnati East quadrangle. 13,394 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Blue Ash within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Ash grew from 12,114 to 13,394 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201012,114
202013,394+1,280 (+11%)

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blue Ash, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Blue Ash, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,208 shown

Museums hold 6,208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blue Ash between 1819 and 1975: 3,939 Fungi, 1,236 Animalia, 606 Plantae, 379 Protozoa, 27 Unrecorded, 20 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. Braun, A. Gaufin and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Phleum pratense, not of this specimenPhleum pratense L.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1837Collector unknownIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Kellerman, W.A.College Hill

All 6,208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Blue Ash: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camp Dennison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms nearby

13 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Blue Ash in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 deaths and 66 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Tornado (F4)Blue Ash4 killed, 65 hurt, $82,000,000A tornado began with F2 intensity in Blue Ash in the northeast corner of the county. This tornado moved through Montgomery, Symmes Township, and Loveland before entering Warren county. The intensity of the tornado was F2 and F3 at many points along the track, intensifying to a low end F4 while in Montgomery. The width of the tornado ranged from 100 yards to 1/4 mile wide. Four fatalities occurred; two in a home and the other two in vehicles. About 91 homes and apartments were destroyed along with 37 businesses. Additionally, 197 homes and apartments suffered major damage with 477 others also incurring damage. Twenty six businesses had major damage with 18 others also incurring damage.
June 1996LightningBlue Ash1 hurtno account filed
April 2002HailBlue Ash$5,000,000Major hail damage to homes, cars and buildings occurred in a swath from Montgomery and Blue Ash into Symmes Township and Loveland.
July 1996LightningBlue Ash$150,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$50,000Trees downed, at least one on a car.
February 2016Heavy RainBlue Ash$20,000A large tree came up by its roots and fell into the roof of a home. Part of the roof collapsed, damaging the bathroom ceiling. The back deck and gutters were also damaged.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$5,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$4,000Trees were downed from Kenwood to Blue Ash.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$3,000Trees were downed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$3,000Numerous trees downed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$2,000Power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBlue Ash$2,000Large limbs were downed.
July 2013Heavy RainBlue Ash-South of Montgomery, the highway underpass to Cross County Highway was flooded due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Barwyn Acres0.4 miles19
Kenwood Knolls1.1 miles19
Raiders Run1.2 miles19
Montgomery Heights1.2 miles19
Kenridge1.3 miles15
Montgomery1.3 miles19
Fairwind Acres1.3 miles19
Rossmoyne1.3 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Blue AshAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q885619The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064458. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.