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___MASK27___ is a city in the U . S . state ___MASK82___ ___MASK39___ that serves as county seat ___MASK82___ Hamilton County . Settled in 1788 , the city is located on the north side ___MASK82___ the confluence ___MASK82___ the Licking with the ___MASK39___ River . With a population ___MASK82___ 298 , 550 , ___MASK27___ is the third - largest city in ___MASK39___ and the 65th - largest city in the United States . Its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th - largest in the United States and the largest centered in ___MASK39___ . The city is also part ___MASK82___ the larger ___MASK27___  Middletown  Wilmington combined statistical area , which had a population ___MASK82___ 2 , 172 , 191 in the 2010 census . The ___MASK39___ River , which streams westward from Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , to Cairo , Illinois , is the largest tributary , by volume , of the Mississippi River in the United States . At the confluence , the ___MASK39___ is considerably bigger than the Mississippi ( ___MASK39___ at Cairo : 281 , 500 cu ft / s ( 7 , 960 m / s ); Mississippi at Thebes : 208 , 200 cu ft / s ( 5 , 897 m / s )) and , thus , is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system , including the Allegheny River further upstream . ___MASK39___ is an Eastern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States . ___MASK39___ is the 34th largest by area , the 7th most populous , and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States . The state ' s capital and largest city is Columbus . A combined statistical area ( CSA ) is composed ___MASK82___ adjacent metropolitan ( MSA ) and micropolitan statistical areas ( µSA ) in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage . The United States Office ___MASK82___ Management and Budget defines a CSA as consisting ___MASK82___ various combinations ___MASK82___ adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan areas with economic ties measured by commuting patterns . These areas that combine retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity ___MASK82___ the United States ___MASK82___ America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens ___MASK82___ both the federal republic and ___MASK82___ the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types ___MASK82___ court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children ___MASK82___ divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). A county seat is an administrative ___MASK23___ , seat of government , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , ___MASK87___ and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function . Mount Storm Park is a City ___MASK82___ Cincinnati municipal park situated on a 59 - acre ( 24 ha ) site on the western slope ___MASK82___ a hill overlooking the Mill Creek Valley . In the mid - 19th century the property comprised the site ___MASK82___ the estate ___MASK82___ Robert Bonner Bowler , a dry goods entrepreneur and one - time Mayor ___MASK82___ the Cincinnati neighborhood ___MASK82___ Clifton . While visiting in Austria , Bowler met Adolph Strauch ___MASK82___ the Vienna Imperial Gardens and invited him to visit if he came to America . Strauch did visit during a scheduled train layover and remained to develop the Bowler Estate . `` Mr . Strauch designed the Temple ___MASK82___ Love in 1845 , which still stands as an outstanding landmark to Mt . Storm today . The white columns ___MASK82___ this Corinthian style pergola , which can be seen on the east lawn , was once the cover for a reservoir that supplied water to Mr . Bowler ' s seventeen greenhouses , gardens , orchards , and a waterfall and swan lake on which seven black swans swam . '' Bowler hosted a number ___MASK82___ prominent guests at the estate including Edward , Prince ___MASK82___ Wales , later King ___MASK82___ England , and Charles Dickens . In 1917 , the 1846 Victorian mansion was razed and the site used as a parking lot . Other than the pergola , the only remaining artifact ___MASK82___ the Bowler estate is the wine cellar . In 1938 , the Clifton Garden Club restored the `` Temple ___MASK82___ Love '' and surrounding gardens . Mount Storm Park ' s stone shelter or pavilion , built in 1935 , overlooks the Mill Creek valley . The building was designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons and is characterized by the lack ___MASK82___ ornament typical ___MASK82___ `` Depression Modern '' . The shelter building was built by Cincinnati contractor Holt & Reichard , Inc . In the United States , a metropolitan statistical area ( MSA ) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area . Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or town would be , nor are they legal administrative divisions like counties or separate entities such as states . As such , the precise definition ___MASK82___ any given metropolitan area can vary with the source . A typical metropolitan area is centered on a single large city that wields substantial influence over the region ( e . g ., Chicago or ___MASK15___ ). However , some metropolitan areas contain more than one large city with no single municipality holding a substantially dominant position ( e . g ., Dallas  Fort Worth metroplex , Norfolk - Virginia Beach ( Hampton Roads ), ___MASK43___  San Bernardino ( Inland Empire ) or Minneapolis  ___MASK18___ ).