OpenHistoricalMap/Projects/Cincinnati
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The Cincinnati metropolitan area is fertile ground for historical mapping, with many resources available for use in OpenHistoricalMap. Browse OpenHistoricalMap in Cincinnati.
Focus areas
Some potential focus areas:
- Fort Ancient, Hopewell, and Shawnee settlements
- Columbia and Fort Washington
- Railroads, especially the B&O and Cincinnati Southern
- Township boundaries, including townships no longer in existence such as Storrs
- Stops along the Underground Railroad
- Public steps
- Inclines
- Freeway construction and West End demolition
- Over-the-Rhine
- Recreational trail construction
Progress
- Lunken Field
- Little Miami Railroad from Cincinnati to Middletown Junction near South Lebanon
- B&O from Loveland to points east
- Queensgate area railroad tracks past 1950
- Greater Cincinnati airport 1944 to today
- Northern Boone County roads
- Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar line
- Loveland and Symmes Township
- Buildings and businesses in most of historic downtown
- Strip malls
- Most township parks
- Some streets from the time they are renamed
- Historic Black community institutions
- Loveland City Schools
Resources
Subscription databases:
- The Cincinnati Enquirer (1841–present) on Newspapers.com[1]
- The Cincinnati Post (1882–2007) on Newspapers.com[1]
- "How Was It Named?" column by Ray Steffens
- The Cincinnati Times-Star (1883–1958) on NewspaperArchive[1]
- The Cincinnati Herald (1961–1994) on NewspaperArchive[1]
- Community Press newspapers such as The Loveland Herald (2012–present) on Newspapers.com[1]
- Community Press newspapers such as The Loveland Herald (1973–1980) on NewspaperArchive[1]
Other databases:
- Newsdex
- Archdiocese of Cincinnati Archives finding aids at OhioLINK
Community news websites:
Federal government records (public domain by law):
- BankFind Suite – FDIC database of financial institution histories
- National Information Center – Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council database of financial institution histories, including individual branches
State and local public records (public domain by law or stated to be in the public domain):
- Hamilton County Recorder's Public Document Inquiry Service for pages out of the board of county commissioners' record book
- Hamilton County Recorder's township plat maps – often includes vacated streets; cross-reference with Auditor Books and Pages
- Paper and Vacated Streets and possibly other CAGIS datasets (see Ohio/Imports)
- Parcels from the Clermont County Auditor (includes year built)
- City ordinance indices, such as Loveland's legislation index and tables of special ordinances
Reference works:
Other websites:
- Cincinnati Traction History by
Jeffrey Jakucyk (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) – photos and articles on railroad history - Cincinnati-Transit.net – articles on road and railroad history
- History in Your Own Backyard – video interviews on building history
- You know you're from Loveland if – Facebook group with lots of historical street-level imagery
- Historic Ohio Statutory Law