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

Forest Park, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Forest Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 45240. The Survey maps it on the Greenhills quadrangle. 20,189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Forest Park within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Forest Park grew from 18,720 to 20,189 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
201018,720
202020,189+1,469 (+8%)

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 Forest Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Forest Park, 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,484 shown

Museums hold 3,484 specimens collected within 10 miles of Forest Park between 1819 and 1975: 2,140 Fungi, 765 Animalia, 385 Plantae, 161 Protozoa, 17 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, 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 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

All 3,484 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Forest Park in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 6 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindForest Park6 hurt, $10,000A microburst struck the Surf Cincinnati Waterpark, breaking metal poles, destroying 20-foot wide umbrellas, and damaging several large tents. Four adults and two children received minor injuries while running for shelter.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindForest Park$5,000Wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph near Exit 39 on Interstate 275. A tree fell on a parked vehicle in Glendale, causing minor damage.
July 2012HailForest Park-no account filed
May 2011HailForest Park-no account filed
June 2002HailForest Park-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
Springdale1.0 miles15
Greenhills1.8 miles16
Pleasant Run Farm2.5 miles16
Glendale2.7 miles15
Crescentville3.1 miles15
Woodlawn3.2 miles15
Pleasant Run3.2 miles16
Wildbrook Acres3.4 miles18

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 Forest ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233899The 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 1040570. 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.

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.