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Cincinnati - Staffed Branch Office

The Cincinnati Division serves Hamilton and the surrounding Ohio counties that make up part of the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area.

The 2000 Census places Cincinnati's population at 331,285. The metropolitan area, which includes southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky, has a population of slightly over two million people.

Eight Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the Cincinnati area. The Greater Cincinnati Airport is ranked the #1 Gateway in the U.S. and #10 in the world by the International Air Transport Association survey. Airlines operating out of Cincinnati offer nearly 620 daily nonstop flights to 120 cities around the globe, including same-day out-and-back service to 87 cities.

Cincinnati has a long history as a major Ohio River shipping center and was a terminus for the Underground Railroad in the 19th-century United States. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819, and in 1869 it became the home to the first professional baseball team, the Red Stockings, now known as the Cincinnati Reds.