United Colored American Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2022 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 4732-4734 Duck Creek Rd. (at corner of 4805 Duck Creek Rd.), Cincinnati
When was it listed? August 2022
Category. site
National Register reference number. 100008017 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of United Colored American Cemetery: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville Oh	Zirconium, Titanium	Unknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, Ohio	Zirconium	Unknown
Mariemont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mariemont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Newtown Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plant Number 3 Newtown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Newspapers printed here

14 papers

14 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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
Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt	1885 to 1919
Westliche Blätter	1865 to 1919
The Penny Press	1859 to 1860
The Cincinnati Daily Star	1875 to 1880
Daily Cincinnati Republican	1838 to 1842
Cincinnati Daily Press	1860 to 1862
The National Republican and Ohio Political Register	1823 to 1830
The Colored Citizen	1863 to 18??
The Organ of the Temperance Reform	1852 to 1853
The Star	1874 to 1875
The Ohio Organ, of the Temperance Reform	1853 to 1854
The Labor Advocate	1912 to 1937
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and Commercial Register	1833 to 1838
The National Republican and Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser	1831 to 1833

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1898 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati East quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Cincinnati East quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Eastwood Historic District	0.3 miles	2005
Madison-Stewart Historic District	0.9 miles	1975
Twentieth Century Theatre	1.5 miles	1993
United States Playing Card Company Complex	1.6 miles	2015
Cincinnati Observatory Building	1.7 miles	1980
Ayres L. Bramble House	1.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008017 in Record Group 79.
Hamilton County	All 371 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.