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

Addyston, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Miami Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45001. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Addyston quadrangle.

Addyston within Hamilton County

Then and now

1914 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Addyston, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Addyston, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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 1881 county history

8,679 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Miami Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Miami Township - 8,679 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,103 shown

Museums hold 2,103 specimens collected within 10 miles of Addyston between 1820 and 1975: 895 Fungi, 675 Animalia, 427 Plantae, 85 Protozoa, 11 Unrecorded, 10 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. F. Braun, A. P. Morgan 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 Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Peronospora parasitica (Pers.) De BaryPeronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary1899Aiken, Walter H.Hamilton County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex davisii, not of this specimenCarex davisii Schwein. & Torr.1835Frankin ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
A photograph of the species Mentha arvensis, not of this specimenMentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald1835Collector unspecifiedMiami.
A photograph of the species Sanicula canadensis, not of this specimenSanicula canadensis L.1835Frankin ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmodium Desv., not of this specimenDesmodium Desv.1836Short, C.W.Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio prope 'North Bend' [banks of Ohio River near North Bend].
A photograph of the species Dicentra Bernh., not of this specimenDicentra Bernh.1836Short, C.W.Fernbank [=Fernbank Park] ad ripas fluminensis Ohio, prope North Bend, Kentucky.
A photograph of the species Monotropa uniflora, not of this specimenMonotropa uniflora L.1836Haupt, J.G.4 mile NW. Cincinnati

All 2,103 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 21 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Addyston: 13 past producers, 6 producers, 2 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Cargill Salt TerminalSaltPast Producer
Cincinnati Salt ServiceSaltPast Producer
Cincinnati WarehouseSaltPast Producer
Ashcraft Main PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bunnell Gravel Pit Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cleves Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cleves Plant Number 6 and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Miami PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East Miami Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Eaton Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Addyston in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Tornado (F1)Addyston$200,000After touching down on the north shore of the Ohio River, the tornado destroyed a house, pulled a metal roof from a garage, and downed several trees.
June 2011HailAddyston-no account filed
June 2009HailAddyston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Sekitan0.8 miles19
Fernbank0.8 miles19
Sayler Park2.0 miles20
Miami Heights2.0 miles19
North Bend2.3 miles19
Cleves2.7 miles19
Mountview2.9 miles20
Mack3.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064299. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.