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Hamilton, city, seat (1803) of Butler county, southwestern Ohio, U.S., on the Great Miami River, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Cincinnati. In 1794 a town called Fairfield was laid out adjoining Fort Hamilton, which was used in 1791–96 by Gen. Arthur St. Clair and Gen. “Mad” Anthony Wayne against the Indians. Fairfield was later renamed for Alexander Hamilton, the U.S. statesman. Rossville, across the river, merged with Hamilton in 1854, by which time the Miami and Erie Canal, with connections to Dayton and Cincinnati, had been built. This and the construction of a hydraulic power plant assured the city’s industrial future. The city suffered from the periodic flooding of the Miami, most seriously in 1913 when much of the city was devastated; the Miami Conservancy District was subsequently developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to control the river’s flooding. Hamilton is now an agricultural trading centre with diversified manufactures, including safes, automotive parts, paper, aircraft components, and industrial centrifuges. The Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument and the Butler County Historical Society Museum (in the Italianate-style Benninghofen House, built 1861) display local relics. A campus (1968) of Miami University is in the city. Seismologist Charles F. Richter, the developer of the Richter scale, was born just outside Hamilton. Inc. town, 1810; city, 1854. Pop. (2000) 60,690; (2010) 62,477.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Jeff Wallenfeldt.