Cincinnati, Ohio

This curated hub for Hamilton County, Ohio brings together the page's documented record links, visible map or image evidence where published, and routes to related local records.

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Cincinnati grew from 850 to 309,317 between 1800 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 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1986

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
• 1950 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Museums hold 5,862 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cincinnati between 1819 and 1975: 2,843 Fungi, 1,724 Animalia, 946 Plantae, 298 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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
	Clavaria striata Pers.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
	Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1899	C.G. Lloyd	Cincinnati
	Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	Cincinnati
	Quercus × leana Nutt.	1819	Thomas Nuttall	3 miles North of Cincinnati
	Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1820	T. G. Lea	probably Cincinnatti
	Barbula unguiculata Hedw.	1820	T. G. Lea	probably Cincinnatti
	Sebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.	1827	Lloyd C. G.	Linwood
	Rhus venenata DC.	1830	Clark, Joseph	North of Cincinnati
	Equisetum arvense L.	1834	Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.	Cincinnati
	Carex comosa Boott	1835	Collector unspecified	In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
	Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Cincinnati.
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	College Hill

All 5,862 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cincinnati: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. 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 National Weather Service names Cincinnati in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

14 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 53 issues spread across its run from 1823 to 1917, 201,273 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

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 1066650. 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.