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

Springdale, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springdale City. It lies in ZIP code area 45246. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle. 11,007 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Springdale within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Springdale fell from 11,223 to 11,007 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	11,223
2020	11,007	-216 (-2%)

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Springdale, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Springdale, surveyed 1904

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

8,481 words on this township

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

Some of the earliest tradesmen and mechanics of the village are thus recalled by Mr. Anthony Hilts, one of the very oldest survivors of the early day in Springdale: John Baldwood, proprietor of the town, blacksmith; John McGilliard, postmaster; Captain John Brownson, hotelkeeper; Garret Lefferson, and Isaac Larrne, blacksmiths; Colonel William Chamberlain, dry goods merchant; John Swallow, dealer in dry goods and groceries ; N. S. Schorey, tanner and currier; the father of Governor O. P. Morton, of Indiana (who was brought up in Springdale), hotel-keeper; William Creager, cabinetmaker and undertaker; John Rogers, manufacturer of Windsor chairs; Hatfield Williams, wheelwright; James Cogg, hatter; Joseph Hagerman, physician. It is also remembered by old citizens that one Birder made hats in Springdale about sixty years - of rabbit and other fur, great bellcrowned affairs, that would hold a peck apiece, the fur sticking out of them half an inch or more. It is thought that James Cogy preceded Creager as cabinetmaker, and was the first in the village; and that Creager was followed by Garrett Williamson.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The old brick store in Springdale was erected in 1833, and the old pork-house on the other side of the street in 1838. Among the oldest dwellings in town, some of which go a long way back, are the Hunt, Prigg, and Creager houses.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Mr. Huffman, a very aged resident of the village, remembers two of the pioneer.schools at Springdale - one kept by Caleb Kemper in a meeting-house originally built by the "New Light" religionists, and afterwards used for a school-house; the other, taught by a lady named Andrews, in a frame building erected in the Presbyterian churchyard. In this school needlework was among the branches taught. Alpheus Mclntyre was another of the early local pedagogues; John Wood was another. The present graded school building was put up in 1870.

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 Springdale City - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 3,643 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,643 specimens collected within 10 miles of Springdale between 1819 and 1975: 2,253 Fungi, 775 Animalia, 420 Plantae, 161 Protozoa, 18 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.

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
Rhus venenata DC.	1830	Clark, Joseph	North of Cincinnati
Carex comosa Boott	1835	Collector unspecified	In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex amphibola Steud.	1837	Collector unknown	In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati.
Carex suberecta (Olney) Britton	1837	Collector unspecified	Cincinnati.
Philonotis longiseta (Michx.) E.Britton	1838	T. G. Lea
Fissidens hyalinus Wilson & Hook.	1839	T. G. Lea

All 3,643 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springdale in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Springdale	$500,000	A large supercell moved across the northeastern parts of the county causing widespread damage. Trees and/or power lines were downed in Springdale, Sharonville, Glendale, and Wyoming. A roof was blown off a manufactoring plant onto Interstate 75 in Lockland. In addition, three-quarter inch diameter hail occurred in Blue Ash and 1 inch diameter fell in Sharonville.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Springdale	$15,000	Water was flowing into some apartments.
July 2008	Hail	Springdale	$1,000	no account filed
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Springdale	$250	One 6-8 inch branch knocked down.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Springdale	-	A tree was knocked down and was blocking Sheffield Road.
April 2000	Flash Flood	Springdale	-	Kemper Road was flooded due to heavy rainfall.
April 2020	Hail	Springdale	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Springdale	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Springdale	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Springdale	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Forest Park	1.0 miles	16
Glendale	1.8 miles	15
Crescentville	2.2 miles	15
Greenhills	2.4 miles	16
Woodlawn	2.5 miles	15
Grainthorpe (historical)	2.9 miles	15
Wyoming Meadows	3.3 miles	19
Park Place	3.4 miles	19

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 Springdale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1009996	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 1065369. 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.