A Geographic Interpretation of Cincinnati, Ohio 13 
destructive winds, and modify the effect of storms; Cincinnati 
is not visited by the Western tornadoes, or the storms of the North 
and South. The wind direction is prevailingly from the south- 
west. Moreover, the temperature maintains a happy medium; 
her winters are comparatively mild, the mean temperature being 
33.6°; her summers are rarely extremely warm, the mean temper- 
ature being 73.5°. The average rainfall for the year is 48.02 
inches, and the precipitation is well-distributed seasonally, 
summer being the wettest season and autumn the dryest. Cin- 
cinnati’s climate is healthful, the annual death rate is 20 per 1000. 
Strangers coming to the city become acclimatized very readily. 
Public improvements. An abundant supply of water, with a 
thoroughly modern and scientific filtration plant, excellent ship- 
ping facilities and a fine street-lighting equipment, are valuable 
industrial assets of which Cincinnati can boast. 
Central location. Cincinnati’s location with respect to other 
large cities is quite advantageous. It is about 750 miles from New 
York, 600 miles from Washington, 300 miles from Chicago and 
St. Louis, 640 miles from Baltimore, 250 miles from Cleveland. 
Furthermore, Cincinnati is the nearest large city to the center of 
population (which, according to the last census, is located near 
Bloomington, Ind.), and is therefore a good base for supplies. 
Grain and coal center. Having a very extensive distributive 
outlet to all the Southland, Cincinnati has become one of the 
country’s most important grain centers. This city is, in addition, 
the soft coal center of the United States, taking into consideration 
production, availability and geographical location. Ohio, Mich- 
igan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Pennsyl- 
vania and West Virginia furnished 85 per cent of the total amount 
of coal produced in the United States in 1909 these coal regions 
are within a radius of 300 miles from Cincinnati. In 1910 
Cincinnati received more coal than ever before in her history, 
20 per cent more than in 1909. The improvement of the Ohio 
River, particularly the building of Fernbank Dam, and the exten- 
sion of railroad lines to the east, west and south, will combine 
to give Cincinnati still greater advantage in location in respect 
to the availability of cheap fuel. 
U. S. Government Report on ‘‘The Production of Coal,’’ 1910. 
