Northbrook, Ohio
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colerain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45251. The Survey maps it on the Cincinnati West quadrangle. 10,912 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNorthbrook grew from 10,668 to 10,912 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 | 10,668 | |
| 2020 | 10,912 | +244 (+2%) |
Then and now
1914 to 1986The 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.


Topographic sheets covering this place
18 sheetsMatched 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
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cincinnati West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Colerain township, in the words of 1881.
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.
In the 1881 county history
9,514 words on this townshipThe county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Colerain Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Colerain Township - 9,514 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 4,219 shownMuseums hold 4,219 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northbrook between 1819 and 1975: 1,951 Fungi, 1,368 Animalia, 725 Plantae, 139 Protozoa, 19 Unrecorded, 16 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 |
![]() | 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 davisii Schwein. & Torr. | 1835 | Frank | in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio |
![]() | 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 4,219 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Northbrook: 2 producers. All of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leonard Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2020The National Weather Service names Northbrook in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | $10,000 | Multiple trees were knocked down onto a house. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galaxy Acres | 0.4 miles | 18 | |
| Wardwood Acres | 0.5 miles | 18 | |
| Northgate | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Colerain Heights | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| Dornbusch | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bevis | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| Crestwood Acres | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Skyline Acres | 1.5 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 Northbrook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2656278 | 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 1049024. 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.




























