Sayler Park, Cincinnati

Sayler Park is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] The west side neighborhood on the Ohio River is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide.[2] The population was 2,765 at the 2010 census.[3]

Sayler Park is a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The 65-acre (26 ha) Fernbank Park in Sayler Park stretches over a mile along the Ohio River.[4] The Thornton Triangle is Cincinnati's smallest municipal park.[5]

History

Sayler Park was originally known as Home City.[6] The ice manufacturer Home City Ice is named after the neighborhood.[7] Sayler Park was annexed by the City of Cincinnati in 1911.[8] The neighborhood is known for its F5 tornado in 1974 during the Super Outbreak[9] (one of seven F5 tornadoes during that outbreak) which killed three and demolished many homes.

Sayler Park is the first town to include "Smoots," an unofficial standard of measurement first introduced by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to measure the height of incoming residents.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sayler Park
  2. Ball, Jennifer (Jun 2007). "Selling Points". Cincinnati Magazine. p. 97. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  3. "Sayler Park Statistical neighborhood approximation". City of Cincinnati. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  4. "Fernbank Park". Cincinnati Park Board. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
  5. "Cinciparks". cincinnatiparks.com. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  6. Hand, Greg (November 20, 2017). "From Bucktown To Vanceville: Cincinnati's Lost 19th Century Neighborhoods". Cincinnati. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  7. "History". Home City Ice. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  8. Clarke, S. J. (1912). Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 528. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  9. Horstmeyer, Steve (Dec 1995). "It's Not the Heat, It's The..." Cincinnati Magazine. p. 66. Retrieved 2013-05-18.

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