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Kinsey, Ohio

human settlement in Ohio, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ24061485 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kinsey is a historic community in Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Ohio; its location, 39°51′14″N 84°17′34″W, makes it a neighborhood of Englewood.

History

A post office called Kinseys Station was established in 1879, the name was changed to Kinsey in 1882, and the post office closed in 1904. The community was named for Samuel Kinsey, who operated a plant nursery near the station.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kinsey, Ohio” as human settlement in Ohio, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kinsey, Ohio and human.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1882, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kinsey, Ohio and human providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24061485. Authority coordinates are 39.854, -84.293. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1882 and 1904.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kinsey, Ohio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.