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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Abe, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45318. The Survey maps it on the Piqua West quadrangle.

Abe within Miami County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Abe, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Abe, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the 1880 county history

41,096 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Newberry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Newberry Township - 41,096 words.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Tipp-Elizabeth Road Bridge, Spanning Great Miami River, Tipp City, Miami County, OH
Tipp-Elizabeth Road Bridge, Spanning Great Miami River, Tipp City, Miami County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 263 shown

Museums hold 263 specimens collected within 10 miles of Abe between 1897 and 1967: 251 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1897F. L. StevensSugar Grove.
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. StevensSugar Grove
Specimen of Phyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.WinterPhyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.Winter1897F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Potamogeton amplifolius Tuck.Potamogeton amplifolius Tuck.1899Young, WU
A photograph of the species Bothriocephalus claviceps, not of this specimenBothriocephalus claviceps (Goeze, 1782) Rudolphi, 18101926R. BanghamPiqua
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus ardens, not of this specimenLythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1930MB TrautmanSmall tributary of the Stillwater River, northern Newberry Township

All 263 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Abe: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Poeppelman QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wise Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wise Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clayton1.0 miles13
Polo1.5 miles15
Summitville (historical)2.5 miles15
Bloomer2.6 miles13
Covington3.5 miles13
West Covington3.7 miles13
Bradford3.8 miles13
Meyers (historical)3.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057285. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.