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Camp Dennison, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Symmes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45111. The Survey maps it on the Madeira quadrangle. 384 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,900 feet above sea level.

Camp Dennison within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Camp Dennison grew from 375 to 384 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
2010375
2020384+9 (+2%)

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Camp Dennison, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Camp Dennison, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

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.

In the county-history sources

11,290 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Symmes Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Symmes is one of the later and smaller townships. It was created between 1820 and 1826, solely from the eastern part of Sycamore, to which were added two tiers of sections on the west which had formerly belonged to Springfield township. It is bounded on the south by Columbia township, on the west by Sycamore, on the north by Warren county, and on the east by the Little Miami, which follows a tortuous course of nearly twelve miles along the eastern front of Symmes. When about midway of its course here, it deeply indents the township, reducing its width from the extreme breadth of a little more than four miles on a line a short distance north of West Loveland, to a trifle over a mile in the latitude of Remington, about two and one-half miles from the south line of the township. Below this point the width of the township is no where greater than three and a quarter miles on the section line next north of Camp Dennison. The length of the township on the western border and for more than a mile eastvyard is the same as that of Springfield and Sycamore townships - seven miles, dwindling down to nothing in the bends north and south of the great bend of the Miami.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The little Miami railroad crosses about a mile and a half of the territory of Symmes in its southeastern part, on a line through Camp Dennison, averaging a half-mile's distance from the river. The Marietta & Cincinnati railroad enters at Allendale, near the opposite or southwest corner of the township, strikes the vicinity of the river at Remington and Montgomery stations, and thence follows the Little Miami closely, where it crosses into Clermont and shortly into Warren counties. The Cincinnati & Wooster turnpike passes through the township on the general line of the Little Miami railroad, crossing the river like that just below Miamiville. The old State road, from Columbia via Montgomery toward Chillicothe, also intersects the township, as do numerous other turnpikes and common roads.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Waldsmith, about 1840, founded the village of Germany, a small plat south of the present Camp Dennison, and near the southeast corner of the township, on the turnpike road running north and south through the township. It was a short-lived hamlet, and little sign of it now remains, except the old stone dwelling of Waldsmith on the turnpike, bearing the date 1808, and being the oldest stone dwelling in the county, except one - the old residence of Colonel Sedam, near Gaff, Fleischmann & Company's distillery, at Sedamsville. He also built the first paper-mill in the country west of Redstone. In the early spring of 1810 the mill there was burned, and the river frozen up. The Spy and Gazette, at Cincinnati, was obliged to suspend publication for want of paper, and Carpenter, the pubUsher, was also caught with a contract on his hands for printing the Territorial laws. In this emergency Waldsmith, who had been an expert paper-maker in Europe, was urged to try his hand here, and, in a rude way at first, he made enough soon to start the Cincinnati presses again. The Sjiy started again, after a suspension of a month and a half; and Waldsmith's success encouraged him to enlarge and

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Symmes Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 4,372 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,372 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Dennison between 1827 and 1975: 3,086 Fungi, 630 Animalia, 316 Protozoa, 306 Plantae, 24 Unrecorded, 10 Chromista. 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 Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
Specimen of Puccinia extensicola Plowr.Puccinia extensicola Plowr.1900Aiken, Walter H.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.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1837Collector unknownIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati.
A photograph of the species Carex suberecta, not of this specimenCarex suberecta (Olney) Britton1837Collector unspecifiedCincinnati.
A photograph of the species Philonotis longiseta, not of this specimenPhilonotis longiseta (Michx.) E.Britton1838T. G. Lea
A photograph of the species Fissidens hyalinus, not of this specimenFissidens hyalinus Wilson & Hook.1839T. G. Lea
Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.1897not recordedCollege Hill, Hamilton Co. near Cincinnati

All 4,372 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Camp Dennison: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camp Dennison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Camp Dennison PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Dennison in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2017HailCamp Dennison-no account filed

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
Glenwood (historical)2.6 miles19
Remington2.7 miles19
Allandale (historical)2.7 miles19
Miami Grove2.7 miles19
Terrace Park2.9 miles19
Foxhunter Lane3.0 miles19
Symmes3.4 miles19
South Clippinger3.6 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 Camp DennisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473129The 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 1056758. 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.