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Point Pleasant

Point Pleasant is a small unincorporated community in southern , , , . It is located on the Ohio River, around 25 miles southeast of Cincinnati.
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: “Cox’s Landing” and “Point Pleasant, Ohio”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grant Birthplace and William H. Zimmer Power Station.

Heritage site
Photo: Greg5030, CC BY 2.5.
The in Point Pleasant, , was the birthplace of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who was born there in 1822. The home was built in 1817, and in 1821 Jesse Root Grant wed Hannah Simpson Grant and they moved into the home where they paid $2 a month rent.

Power station
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The , located near , was a 1.35-gigawatt coal power plant. Planned by Cincinnati Gas and Electric, with Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric and Dayton Power & Light as its partners, it was originally intended to be a nuclear power plant. is situated 1½ miles south of Point Pleasant.

School
The was a private school founded in 1839 in near . The founders of the academy were Baptist minister Daniel Parker and his wife Priscilla, who were staunch abolitionists. is situated 2 miles northwest of Point Pleasant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mentor and Clermontville.

Village
is a home rule-class city in , , United States. The population was 218 as of the 2020 census.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , in the U.S. state of . is situated 2 miles northwest of Point Pleasant.

Hamlet
is a home rule-class city in , United States. The population was 83 at the 2020 census. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Point Pleasant.

Point Pleasant

Latitude
38.89451° or 38° 53′ 40″ north
Longitude
-84.23382° or 84° 14′ 2″ west
Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)
Open location code
86CQVQV8+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154402107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4521673
Wiki­data ID
Q1002654
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Volapük—“Point Pleasant” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Փոյնթ Փլեզընթ”
  • Asturian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Bavarian: “Point Pleasant, Ohio”
  • Bavarian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Belarusian: “Пойнт Плэзант”
  • Bulgarian: “Пойнт Плезант”
  • Catalan: “Point Pleasant”
  • Chinese: “波因特普萊森特 (俄亥俄州)”
  • Chinese: “波因特普萊森特”
  • Dutch: “Point Pleasant”
  • French: “Point Pleasant”
  • German: “Point Pleasant”
  • Greek: “Πόιντ Πλέσαντ”
  • Hebrew: “פוינט פלזנט”
  • Hungarian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Irish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Italian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Luxembourgish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Pleasant”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Point Pleasant”
  • Polish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Russian: “Пойнт-Плезант”
  • Slovenian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Spanish: “Point Pleasant (Ohio)”
  • Spanish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Swedish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Volapük: “Point Pleasant”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Grant Park and Grant Memorial Church.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Point Pleasant”. Photo: Greg5030, CC BY 2.5.