CINCINNATI

I overheard a friend telling another that there was a Cincinnati, Iowa.  Who knew?  My curiosity being piqued, I had my crack staff peek into the peak of information about so-named cities.   Here's the whole scoop. 

There are five states which have a city named Cincinnati.  Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas and California.  What's that old saw?   " Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" 

Get this!  Cincinnati, California was a mining community near Lawrenceberg.  Since the mines dried up, so few people live there that they took it off the map.  It's now little more than a memory and an old sign along the road.   Lawrenceberg, California doesn't really exist any more, either.

Cincinnati, Indiana, in the south central part of the state, had a post office from 1874 until 1934 - but no longer.  It still has a branch of the county public library.  It's unincorporated and likely has no need for traffic signals. 

Cincinnati, Arkansas is in the Ozarks and has a few residents - not enough to warrant it's own post office or zip code.   It has been an unincorporated community there since 1857.  Before that, it was known as Buzzard Roost.  (Cincinnati was definitely an improvement.)  They have a Cincinnati High School.

Now, Cincinnati, Iowa, that's a thriving metropolis.  In the 2010 U.S. Census, it had 357 humans living there.  (That was a decline from the previous census.)  It was a mining community when it was incorporated in 1875. 

It seems that in each of the above cases, the cities were named by a former resident of the Queen City.  I have no information about chili spaghetti being available in any of these locations. 
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