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
- Public art [1][2]
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
- Montgomery and Sycamore Township
- Historic landmarks
Resources
Subscription databases
- The Cincinnati Enquirer (1841–present) on Newspapers.com[1]
- Steven, Rosen (January 27, 1980). “Store Closes; Another Opens: That’s Change In Cincinnati”. The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. B-1 . Many leads about major POIs in the Montgomery–Kenwood area
- The Cincinnati Post (1882–2007) on Newspapers.com[1]
- "How Was It Named?" column by Ray Steffens
- "What I-71 Will Do for City", 1966-03-16
- 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]
- The Catholic Telegraph (1831–1885, 1847–2012)
Other databases
- Newsdex
- Archdiocese of Cincinnati Archives finding aids at OhioLINK
Community news websites
Federal government records
These are 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
Links here should be public domain by law or stated to be in the public domain:
- CAGIS online viewer – official map of Cincinnati, provides links to auditor records
- Hamilton County Auditor property search
- N.B. Very often, the "Year Built" field in the auditor records is completely wrong for old buildings, sometimes by many decades. The ownership cards, valuation history, and photos are more useful for accurately determining when a building was constructed.
- 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
Maps
- Maps and Atlases via CHPL
- Cincinnati Historical Maps via UC Libraries
- Historical maps of Cincinnati via Library of Congress
- commons:Category:Old maps of Cincinnati
- Sanborn maps via Ohio Web Library
- Rectified version of 1922 Sanborn insurance map (work in progress by User:Hayleox)
- Cincinnati, Ohio rectified Sanborn maps at OldInsuranceMaps.net
Imagery
- ODOT Aerial Imagery Archive (1946–present)
- Please see File:ODOT OHM material release.pdf for disclaimers and requirements when using ODOT imagery in OpenHistoricalMap.
- Cincinnati Subway and Street Improvements photographs via UC Libraries (1920–1956)
- Cincinnati Enquirer Photo Archive via CHPL (1945–1995, a few older)
- Photographs & Prints via CHPL (mostly 1880–1920)
- Cincinnati History Lantern Slides via CHPL (many 1907–1919, many undated)
- Before/after/construction photos of revitalization projects by 3CDC (2004–present)
- Marty Milligan OTR photos via CHPL (1992–2019)
- Travis Estell "cincinnati" tag via Flickr – street and elevated photos, lots of construction/demolition projects (2009–present)
- oldohioschools via Flickr – photos of historic schools including detail shots (2007–present)
- You know you're from Loveland if – Facebook group with lots of historical street-level imagery
Reference works
- The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky on Issuu
- Business, Shipping & Trade Directories via CHPL (1844–1918)
Other websites
- Other digital collections via CHPL
- 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
- Historic Ohio Statutory Law
- I-75 Mill Creek Expressway – 2010s reconstruction schedule
- Digging Cincinnati History – lots of deep dive articles into niche places
- Art Deco Architecture of Cincinnati
- All 3CDC Projects