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

Hyde Park, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cincinnati City. It lies in ZIP code area 45208. The Survey maps it on the Cincinnati East quadrangle.

Hyde Park within Hamilton County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hyde Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hyde Park, surveyed 1898

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 7,237 shown

Museums hold 7,237 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hyde Park between 1819 and 1975: 3,867 Fungi, 1,932 Animalia, 951 Plantae, 434 Protozoa, 31 Unrecorded, 21 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 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 Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
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 Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.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.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Kellerman, W.A.College Hill

All 7,237 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hyde Park: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, OhioTin, Lead, AntimonyUnknown
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms nearby

13 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Hyde Park in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHyde Park1 hurt, $20,000A large, dead tree was blown down, falling onto 4 cars.
August 2016Flash FloodHyde Park$350,000A ground-level apartment off of Maple Avenue was completely flooded. Thirty residents were displaced.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$5,000A tree fell down onto two houses.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$5,000Numerous trees were downed in the Hyde Park area.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$5,000Trees and powerlines were knocked down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$3,000A few trees were downed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHyde Park$3,000A tree fell onto a parked car.
June 2009Flash FloodHyde Park$1,000Standing water blocked interstate 71 at the Dana Avenue exit. Creeks and streams in the area were out of their banks.
May 2022FloodHyde Park-Road flooding was reported in Norwood.
March 2017Flash FloodHyde Park-Multiple roads were closed in Norwood due to high water, including Montgomery Road near Sanker Blvd.
November 2017FloodHyde Park-High water was reported near the intersection of Edwards Road and Observatory Avenue.
August 2016Flash FloodHyde Park-High water was reported across the Norwood Lateral near Montgomery Road.
August 2016Flash FloodHyde Park-The Norwood Lateral was shutdown by high flowing water.

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
Oakley Square0.6 miles19
Faxon Hills0.7 miles19
Mount Lookout0.9 miles19
Oakley0.9 miles19
Tusculum1.4 miles19
O'Bryonsville1.6 miles19
Rendcomb Junction1.6 miles19
Linwood1.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056349. 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.