[1][2] One of the city's oldest hilltop neighborhoods, it is a large diverse area on the near east side of Cincinnati.

The neighborhood was named from the farm of an early settler, Reverend James Kemper, which he called Walnut Hill.

When modern suburbs were created after World War II, many of community's middle class white residents moved out of Walnut Hills.

Although Harriet wrote her famous anti-slavery novel in Brunswick Maine, the factual material for the novel was gathered during her almost 20 years in Cincinnati.

'[6] The Walnut Hills Library, Cincinnati's first Carnegie Library, and the Walnut Hills United Presbyterian Church's remaining tower at Taft and Gilbert were designed by architect Samuel Hannaford.

[7] The commercial district at Peebles' Corner, originally called Kemper's Corner, was once the busiest district outside Downtown Cincinnati, with six street cars lines intersecting at McMillan and Gilbert by the end of the 19th century.

[10] According to the U.S. Census American Community Survey, for the period 2016-2020 the estimated median annual income for a household in the neighborhood was $30,259.