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

Dry Ridge, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colerain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45252. The Survey maps it on the Greenhills quadrangle. 2,698 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,028 feet above sea level.

Dry Ridge within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Dry Ridge fell from 2,782 to 2,698 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	2,782
2020	2,698	-84 (-3%)

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dry Ridge, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Dry Ridge, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Colerain township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 - Colerain Township

Population Jared Cloud

of Colerain township, was born on St. Patrick's day, the seventeenth of March, 1808; is Of Welsh, and Enghsh descent on his father's side and of French descent on that of his mother. Mason Jones Cloud, his grandfather, came from Virginia about the year 1778, and settled in Boone county, Kentucky. Unfortunately for the fate of Mason, he was required to return to Virginia for a sum of money there due him, and after only a three days' stay in his new home, in company with two others, set out on his perilous trip, and, with his companions, was massacred on Licking river by the hostile Indians.

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In the county-history sources

9,514 words on this township

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

In the forest one mile west of Bevis and about the same distance south of Dry Ridge Catholic church, is an interesting ancient enclosure. It is an exact circle, of about fifty feet in diameter, and its parapets at present with an average height of two feet. The site it occupies is elevated, overlooking a wide tract of country. Its symmetry has been considerably marred by the running of fences and other modern improvements across it, but its form is still clearly outlined.

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 Colerain Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,485 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,485 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dry Ridge between 1819 and 1975: 1,174 Fungi, 806 Animalia, 375 Plantae, 113 Protozoa, 10 Chromista, 6 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Clavaria striata Pers.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1899	C.G. Lloyd	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
Equisetum arvense L.	1834	Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.	Cincinnati
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
Monotropa uniflora L.	1836	Haupt, J.G.	4 mile NW. Cincinnati
Chiloscyphus pallescens (Ehrh. ex Hoffm.) Dumort.	1837	T. G. Lea	Burnet's Woods nea Cincinnati

All 2,485 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

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

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Allied Chem Corp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
F and C Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
F and C Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Leonard Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bevis	0.9 miles	16
Dornbusch	1.2 miles	18
Northgate	1.5 miles	16
Colerain Heights	1.7 miles	18
Wardwood Acres	1.9 miles	18
Crestwood Acres	2.0 miles	18
Northbrook	2.1 miles	18
Barnesburg	2.1 miles	18

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 Dry Ridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5309541	The 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 1064556. 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.