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

Alliance Junction, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44672. The Survey maps it on the Alliance quadrangle.

Alliance Junction within Mahoning County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alliance Junction, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Alliance Junction, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 222 shown

Museums hold 222 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alliance Junction between 1883 and 1975: 126 Animalia, 79 Plantae, 17 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anderson, B., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B. Leeper 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 Alternaria NeesAlternaria Nees1904D.F. Yenghing
Specimen of Collybia semitalis (Fr.) Quél.Collybia semitalis (Fr.) Quél.1904LeeperSalem
Specimen of Pholiota aegerita (V.Brig.) Quél.Pholiota aegerita (V.Brig.) Quél.1913Leever, BurttSalem
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asplenium filix-femina, not of this specimenAsplenium filix-femina (L.) Bernh.1887E. Wilkinson; CallSalem, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Aster prenanthoides, not of this specimenAster prenanthoides Muhl. ex Willd.1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Athyrium filix-femina, not of this specimenAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Bromus secalinus, not of this specimenBromus secalinus L.1887WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cornus florida, not of this specimenCornus florida L.1887WilkinsonSalem

All 222 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alliance Junction: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Coal, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Alliance QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Alliance QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Whitacre Shale PlantClayPast Producer
Whiteacre Greer PitClay, CoalProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning 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
Maple Ridge0.5 miles20
Sebring1.2 miles20
East Alliance2.0 miles20
Alden Park2.3 miles20
Beloit2.6 miles15
Westville2.9 miles15
Naylor3.7 miles15
Snodes3.7 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122551334The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048453. 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.