Cincinnati, city in the hilly southwest corner of Ohio, the seat of Hamilton County. Cincinnati is the third largest city in the state, after Columbus and Cleveland. It's the transportation, industrial, commercial, and also cultural center for a region stretching over southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana. The city's strategic location over the westward-flowing Ohio River made it a focal point for migration during the 19th century, also it was also known as "The Gateway to the West." It started to be for some time the largest city beyond the East Coast and was named by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as "The Queen City," a title still the city's favorite unofficial designation.
Cincinnati is located over the north bank of the Ohio River near where it is joined by the Miami, Little Miami, and Licking rivers. The downtown area of this attractive city is built in a basin, with residential neighborhoods spread out on hills above. Its mean elevation is 208 m (683 ft). The city features a continental climate that is influenced by cold air masses from the north and warm air in the Gulf of Mexico, creating changeable weather. The average high temperature in January is 3° C (37° F) and the average low is -7° C (19° F); average high in July is 29° C (85° F) and the average low is 18° C (65° F). Every year the city averages 1040 mm (41 in) in precipitation, with fairly more falling from March through July compared to in the course of other months.
Right after it was started in 1788, the city was renamed Cincinnati in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati, an association of officers within the American Revolution (1775-1783). The organization itself was named after Roman statesman Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who legend held to be the model of virtue.
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