Blue Jay, Ohio

Blue Jay grew from 959 to 1,427 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.

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1996

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.

• 1914 USGS West Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS West Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS West Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS West Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS Addyston quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Whitewater township, in the words of 1881.

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 810 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blue Jay between 1835 and 1975: 374 Fungi, 336 Animalia, 51 Plantae, 44 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. P. Morgan, A. R. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Carex davisii Schwein. & Torr.	1835	Frank	in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
	Mentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald	1835	Collector unspecified	Miami.
	Sanicula canadensis L.	1835	Frank	in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
	Desmodium Desv.	1836	Short, C.W.	Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio prope 'North Bend' [banks of Ohio River near North Bend].
	Dicentra Bernh.	1836	Short, C.W.	Fernbank [=Fernbank Park] ad ripas fluminensis Ohio, prope North Bend, Kentucky.
	Monotropa uniflora L.	1836	Haupt, J.G.	4 mile NW. Cincinnati
	Viola L.	1840	Short, C.W.	In America boerali prope Fernbank, ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope North-Bend (Kentucky). | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope ''North Bend.'' [=In northern America, near Fernbank, beside the Ohio River, near North Bend (Kentucky).]
	Aesculus L.	1844	Short, C.W.	Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio prope North Bend [=Fernbank - the banks of the Ohio river near North Bend].
	Botrychium dissectum var. obliquum (Muhl.) Clute	1898	Aiken, W.H.
	Dasyscyphus viridulus (Schrad.) Sacc.	1898	A. P. Morgan
	Lanius excubitor borealis Vieillot, 1808	1898	J. N. Proctor	Westwood
	Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	not recorded	Westwood

All 810 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Blue Jay: 16 past producers, 12 producers, 3 plants. 15 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064459. 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.