Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Arlington Heights. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1898East Cincinnati sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Arlington Heights.
The story so far
Arlington Heights, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Arlington Heights yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Arlington Heights is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. It is a northeastern suburb of Cincinnati. The population was 823 at the 2020 census. The village is almost completely contained within the wide median of the Mill Creek Expressway (Interstate 75), one of the few urban splits of freeway lanes in the country.
Its first post office opened in 1889. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 745 to 823 (+10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Arlington Heights in 1894
Passages that mention Arlington Heights, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio1894 · page 947Read the page →
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William E. Thomas was reared to manhood on his father’s farm and attended the local schools and Clermont Academy. In 1862 he enlisted for service in the war of the Rebellion, but was not called out until 1864. His regiment went to Arlington Heights, Washington, and then joined Grant’s army, but was not in active service in the front. It was stationed at Fortress Monroe, and at the close of the war Mr. Thomas was discharged at Capeville, Ya. He immediately returned home ■and began working at the carpenter trade, at which he was employed twelve years.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Arlington Heights, 1889 to 1970
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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