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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (/ˌsɪnsɪˈnæti/ SIN-si-NAT-ee, nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.[10] Settled in 1788, the city is located in the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The population of Cincinnati was 309,317 in 2020, making it the third-most populous city in Ohio after Columbus and Cleveland, and 65th in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ohio's most populous metro area and the nation's 30th-largest with over 2.265 million residents.[11]

This article is about the city in Ohio. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation).

Cincinnati

United States

1788 (1788)

January 1, 1802 (1802-01-01)[2]

March 1, 1820 (1820-03-01)[3]

Sheryl Long

79.64 sq mi (206.26 km2)

77.91 sq mi (201.80 km2)

1.72 sq mi (4.46 km2)

4,808 sq mi (12,450 km2)

742 ft (226 m)

309,317

309,513

US: 65th

3,969.98/sq mi (1,532.81/km2)

1,686,744 (US: 33rd)

2,242.2/sq mi (865.7/km2)

2,265,051 (US: 30th)

Cincinnatian

$157.0 billion (2022)

452XX, 45999[8]

39-15000[9]

1086201[5]

Throughout much of the 19th century, Cincinnati was among the top 10 U.S. cities by population. The city developed as a river town for cargo shipping by steamboats, located at the crossroads of the Northern and Southern United States with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than East Coast cities in the same period. However, it received a significant number of German-speaking immigrants, who founded many of the city's cultural institutions. It later developed an industrialized economy in manufacturing. Many structures in the urban core have remained intact for 200 years; in the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as the "Paris of America" due mainly to ambitious architectural projects such as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel, and Roebling Bridge.[12]


Cincinnati has the twenty-eighth largest economy in the United States and the fifth largest in the Midwest, home to several Fortune 500 companies including Kroger, Procter & Gamble, and Fifth Third Bank.[13] It is home to three professional sports teams: the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball; the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League; and FC Cincinnati of Major League Soccer; it is also home to the Cincinnati Cyclones, a minor league ice hockey team. The city's largest institution of higher education, the University of Cincinnati, was founded in 1819 as a municipal college and is now ranked as one of the 50 largest in the United States.[14] The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is based in the city.


Cincinnati is the birthplace of William Howard Taft, the 27th President and 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Recently, Cincinnati has been named among the 100 most livable cities in the world, at number 88, and is on many Best Places to Live lists, including Livability.com and U.S. News & World Report. Forbes ranked Cincinnati as the 5th best city for young professionals in 2023.[15]

City Plan for Cincinnati

National Register of Historic Places listings in Cincinnati

5 ships

USS Cincinnati

Vine Street, Cincinnati

George W. Engelhardt, Cincinnati: The Queen City. Cincinnati, Ohio: George W. Engelhardt Co., 1901.

Volume 1

Greve, Charles Theodore (1904). . Vol. 1. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company – via Google Books.

Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens

Holli, Melvin G., and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980 (Greenwood Press, 1981) short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. ; see index at pp. 406–411 for list.

online

William C. Smith, . Crawfordsville, Indiana: R. E. Banta, 1959.

Queen City Yesterdays: Sketches of Cincinnati in the Eighties

Stradling, David (2003). . Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 67ff. ISBN 978-0-7385-2440-5.

Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis

Official website

– Official City of Cincinnati Public Parks website

Cincinnati Parks

Greater Cincinnati Convention & Visitors Bureau

Cincinnati USA: Official Visitors and Tourist Site

Adelina Patti and Oscar Wilde in Cincinnati 1882

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Cincinnati