Cincinnati, Indiana

Not to be confused with Cincinnati, Parke County, Indiana.

Cincinnati
Unincorporated area
Cincinnati, Indiana
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Nickname:  Little Cincinnati
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Coordinates: 39°01′12″N86°43′44″W / 39.02000°N 86.72889°W / 39.02000; -86.72889
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Greene
Township	Center
Named after	Cincinnatus
Elevation	827 ft (252 m)
Population
• Total	3,567
Time zone	UTC-5
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EST)
ZIP code	47424
Area code	930
FIPS code	18-12682 [1]
GNIS feature ID	432522 [2]
Website	https://cityofcincinnati.wixsite.com/cincinnati-indiana

Cincinnati, nicknamed Little Cincinnati, is an unincorporated area located in the Center Township of Greene County, Indiana, United States.

History

A post office was established at Cincinnati in 1874, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1934. ^[3] According to tradition, the community was named when a visitor told the innkeeper that the surrounding hills and whiskey made him recall his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. ^[4]

Education

Cincinnati has a public library, the Eastern Branch of the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library. ^[5] Eastern Greene High School is also located in Cincinnati despite having a Bloomfield address.

References

1. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. "Cincinnati, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved October 10, 2009.
3. "Greene County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
4. Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History . Indiana University Press. p.  95. ISBN   978-0-253-32866-3. One night, during the first year of its existence, a drunken cattle buyer at the inn jokingly remarked that the place reminded him of his hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio, on account of its high hills and abundance of good whiskey.
5. "Locations". Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library. Retrieved March 7, 2018.