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Hamilton, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamilton City. It lies in ZIP code area 45011. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle. 63,399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

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Hamilton within Butler County

Population over time

2 figures

Hamilton grew from 62,477 to 63,399 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	62,477
2020	63,399	+922 (+1%)

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 Hamilton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Hamilton, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

179,514 words on this township

A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Hamilton City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Doctor Daniel Millikin, the only physician in the place, lived in a house on the bank of the river, above Major Murray's Tavern. In the same neighborhood also lived James Heaton, Isaac Wiles, George Snyder, William Herbert, and George Harlan, with, perhaps, some others.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

William Carry, the only lawyer in the place, kept his office in the same building with the clerk of the court. Several other lawyers, however, regularly attended the courts at Hamilton. At that time, nearly all that part of Hamilton lying east of Front Street was an impenetrable thicket, covered with small, scrubby oaks, blackjacks, vines, and hazel bushes. True, paths and roads were in some places cut through them, to admit a free passage, but, aside from these, underbrush was so thick that it was only in some places a person could make his way through them, or see a rabbit at the distance of a few paces. This was then the case from Sutherland's Corner to the Hamilton Hotel, and eastwardly to where the canal now is, and southwardly as far as the town lots extend.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

At that time it was common to meet with Indians in the streets of Hamilton almost every day, who came to trade their furs and peltries with the storekeepers. In 1808 a band of seventy or eighty Indians encamped in the lower part of Rossville, and remained more than a week. When they got liquor they frequently became intoxicated, and were then, very troublesome. One night, when a number of them were intoxicated, Mr. McBride took a seat on the bank of the river, concealed from their view, and remained a considerable time, watching the squaws taking the drunken Indians across the river, at the ford opposite the lower part of the town, to their camp, on the other side of the river. Two squaws would take hold of an Indian, one on each side, and conduct him across the stream, singing a slow, monotonous song as they waded through the water.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

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 Hamilton City - it names this place 575 more 575 times.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

New London Pike Covered Bridge, Spanning Indian Creek, Hamilton, Butler County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 467 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 467 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hamilton between 1835 and 1975: 404 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden 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
Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)	1879	W. Douglass	Jones Station
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 467 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Hamilton, Ohio	Iron	Unknown
Aggregate Services Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
American Materials/ Hamilton, Ohio	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hamilton Plant #710	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hilltop Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
New Miami Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
New Miami Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton in 63 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 26 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 13 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	2 hurt, $4,000	no account filed
June 2009	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$95,000	Twenty-five homes had water in them with some of the water upwards of three feet deep. Roads were flooded countywide.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$60,000	Several buildings at the Butler County Regional Airport sustained structural and roof damage. A classic plane was also destroyed.
May 2022	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$50,000	Several basements were flooded along South Erie Boulevard.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$30,000	Street flooding occurred along Western Avenue and several other roadways in the Highland Park neighborhood of Hamilton. Water was as deep as 3 feet in some locations.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$30,000	Hundreds of trees and some power lines were downed. Some of the trees fell across State Route 4, to the southeast of Hamilton. Power was out to around 30,000 customers shortly after the storm.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$25,000	Flash flooding, several feet deep, occurred at several intersections in Hamilton, including Main St. and Lawn St., Franklin St. and Edgewood St., and Eaton St. and Rhea St.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$10,000	A few trees and power poles were downed on Woodford Street and Liberty Avenue. A car was also damaged.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$10,000	Many trees downed.
June 2008	Hail	Hamilton	$8,000	no account filed
July 2019	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$5,000	High water was reported on several roads in Hamilton and a few roads in Fairfield Township. Water on Dayton Street was up to the door handles of cars.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$5,000	Water was reported inside a home at 18 N Washington Blvd.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$5,000	Water was reported inside a home at 724 Milikin St.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$5,000	Flooding of structures was reported near 94 Milikin St.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	A brick chimney was blown off a house due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Scattered trees were downed across the eastern portions of Butler County due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2007	Flood	Hamilton	$5,000	Warwick Road was washed out.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$5,000	Numerous trees and large limbs downed.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$4,000	Numerous trees and power poles were downed across eastern portions of the county.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$4,000	Trees were downed into power lines and across roads, causing 600 people to lose power.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$3,000	A few trees and power lines were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$3,000	A few trees were downed on the west side of town.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$3,000	Trees and powerlines were downed.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$3,000	Trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$3,000	Trees downed.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	A couple of trees were downed between Fairfield and Hamilton.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	Two large trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	Two trees were downed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$2,000	Large limbs were knocked down.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	A 20 foot tall tree with a one to two foot base fell down.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	A tree was downed along Dayton Street.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Hamilton	$1,000	Main Street and Millville Avenue were closed due to several feet of high water caused by heavy rainfall.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	A tree and large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	$1,000	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2007	Hail	Hamilton	$1,000	no account filed
April 2017	Flash Flood	Hamilton	-	Flooding was reported along and near Main St. in Hamilton.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Hamilton	-	There were several reports of high water in Hamilton with street flooding as deep as 12 inches.
June 2009	Hail	Hamilton	-	Trees were also reported down in Saint Clair Township.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	-	Small trees and large limbs were blown down on the bypass to State Route 4.
April 2006	Flash Flood	Hamilton	-	Several roads in Liberty Township were flooded.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Hamilton	-	Gregory Creek went out of its banks, causing high water to cover several city streets.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	-	A wind gust of 60 mph was recorded.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	-	An observer reported a wind gust to 60 mph.
April 2020	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Hamilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Butler County Press	1900 to 1946

What the paper printed

7,439 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 6 issues spread across its run from 1913 to 1946, 7,439 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.

Issue	Paper	Length
1913-04-18	The Butler County Press	1,309 words
1913-06-06	The Butler County Press	1,190 words
1913-08-01	The Butler County Press	1,340 words
1913-09-19	The Butler County Press	1,504 words
1913-11-14	The Butler County Press	1,299 words
1946-08-30	The Butler County Press	797 words

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
River View	0.9 miles	15
Forest Hills	1.0 miles	15
Lawn Park	1.1 miles	15
Warwickshire	1.1 miles	15
Grand View	1.2 miles	15
South Hamilton	1.2 miles	15
Columbia Heights	1.3 miles	15
Sharon Park	1.4 miles	15

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 Hamilton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q852673	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 1064784. 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.