OpenHistoricalMap/Projects/Cincinnati

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
  • Steven, Rosen (January 27, 1980). “Store Closes; Another Opens: That’s Change In Cincinnati”. The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. B-1. https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer/148140451/.  Many leads about major POIs in the Montgomery–Kenwood area
• The Cincinnati Post (1882–2007) on Newspapers.com
  • "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
• The Cincinnati Herald (1961–1994) on NewspaperArchive
• Community Press newspapers such as The Loveland Herald (2012–present) on Newspapers.com
• Community Press newspapers such as The Loveland Herald (1973–1980) on NewspaperArchive
• The Catholic Telegraph (1831–1885, 1847–2012)

Other databases

• Newsdex
• Archdiocese of Cincinnati Archives finding aids at OhioLINK

Community news websites

• Loveland Magazine

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:

• 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 Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library
• 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)
• Cincinnati Subway and Street Improvements photographs via UC Libraries
• Before/after/construction photos of revitalization projects by 3CDC (2004–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

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
• 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

See also

• Bibliography