Miami University's Symmes Hall was named in his honor in 1949.

The village is named for John Cleves Symmes who lived here, laid out the original town site, and sold lots.

One of the first easterners to survey the area was John Cleves Symmes, a judge and former Congressman from New Jersey, after whom Symmes Township is named.

Lebanon is in the Symmes Purchase.

Loveland Park is a census-designated place ( CDP ) located in Symmes Township, Hamilton County and Deerfield Township, Warren County, in the southwestern part of the U. S. state of Ohio.

He died in May 1829 and is buried in Symmes Park

Symmes Township ( ) is one of the twelve townships of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

There is no doubt that a considerable part of this amount came from Symmes in the first place as he lent most of his own money to the revolution.

Symmes ' nephew and namesake John Cleves Symmes, Jr. fought in the War of 1812 and is best known for his Hollow Earth Theory.

The area closest to the Pole is also, perhaps surprisingly, warm rather than cold, as Symmes believed.

The Symmes Purchase, also known as the Miami Purchase, was an area of land in Southwestern Ohio in what is now Hamilton, Butler, and Warren Counties.

The Symmes Purchase survey is the only one in the United States where the ranges run from north to south and the townships from east to west.

The entire township is in the Symmes Purchase and was surveyed in accordance with the unusual plan Symmes chose.

Salem Township is in both the Symmes Purchase and the Virginia Military District.

The portion of Wayne Township east of the Little Miami is in the Virginia Military District and was surveyed with the metes and bounds system, while the area west of the Little Miami was surveyed on the same plan as used in the Symmes Purchase.

Its transmitter is located along Symmes Street, just south of East McMillan Street in Cincinnati.

John Cleves Symmes, Jr. ( 1779 – May 1829 ) was an American army officer whose 1818 Hollow Earth theory, expounded on the lecture circuit, gained him considerable notoriety.

Timothy Symmes ( 1715 – 1756 ) and Mary Cleves ( died c. 1746 ) of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island.

Symmes was educated as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill ( 1741 – 1776 ) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.

Symmes served on the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1777 and 1778.

President George Washington signed the patent on October 30, 1794 conveying to Symmes 248, 250 acres ( 1, 005 km² ) plus a surveying township of 23, 040 acres ( 93 km² ), in trust, for an academy.

As early as September 1634, the Reverend Zechariah Symmes, who sailed to New England on the same ship as the Hutchinsons, had questioned Hutchinson's orthodoxy.

Philemon Jr. had also established a farm at Lac Deschênes in Aylmer and after his tragic death, in 1821, in a stagecoach accident, it came under the supervision of Charles Symmes, a nephew of Wright Sr. As well, there were additional Wright farms along the Aylmer Road, Mountain Road, and on both shores of the Gatineau River.

Anna was born at her father's estate Solitude, just outside Morristown, New Jersey ( present day Wheatsheaf Farms subdivision off Sussex Avenue in Morris Township, New Jersey ) on July 25, 1775 to Judge John Cleves Symmes and Anna Tuthill Symmes of Long Island.

Not until his son-in-law had achieved fame on the battlefield did Symmes come to accept him.

Poe also incorporated the theories of Reynolds and John Cleves Symmes, Jr. on the Hollow Earth.

Symmes ' theory had already served Poe when he wrote, in 1831, " MS. Found in a Bottle ", based partly on Symmes ' Theory of the Concentric Spheres, published in 1826.

Further, Symmes sold much land that he did not own, some as far north as Dayton, meaning some early settlers found themselves squatters on the public domain.

* Symmes, Weymouth War on the Rivers: A Swift Boat Sailor's Chronicle of the Battle of the Mekong Delta Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 2004.

It lies on the old 3C Highway in Town 4 East, Range 2 North, Section 21 of the Symmes Purchase and in the center of the area known as " Landen ".

He was serving as a first lieutenant in the 6th Infantry when John C. Symmes III refused a captaincy in the new 10th Infantry on March 3, 1855, and Heth was appointed in his place.

When Congress, on May 5, 1792, authorized the sale to John Cleves Symmes of the land known as the Symmes Purchase, one of the terms was that he would allocate a full township of land to support a university, a promise he never fulfilled.

Symmes also believed there were civilizations inside this Hollow Earth and the enshrouded figure who appears at the end may indicate one such civilization near the Pole.

It crossed from Butler County into Warren County just north of the northern boundary of the Symmes Purchase, a point today in the city limits of Monroe, near Shaker Run.

This tract became known as the “ Symmes Purchase ” or “ Miami Purchase ” and extended south to the Ohio River.

It lies across the Ohio River from Huntington, West Virginia, at the mouth of Symmes Creek.

Symmes represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress ( 1785 – 1786 ), then, in 1788, moved to the west, settling in what later became North Bend, Ohio.

John Cleves Symmes Memorial in Ludlow Park, Hamilton, Ohio

The Seven Ranges, the privately surveyed Symmes Purchase, and, with some modification, the privately surveyed Ohio Company of Associates, all of the Ohio Lands were the surveys completed with this section numbering.

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The site was chosen by the State of Ohio for a college in order to fulfill the unkept promise of John Cleves Symmes.

* Symmes Valley High School in Willow Wood, Ohio.