Alpha, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1986

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.

• 1913 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Bellbrook quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Bellbrook quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Bellbrook quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Bellbrook quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Bellbrook quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Bellbrook quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 509 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alpha between 1839 and 1975: 414 Animalia, 46 Fungi, 43 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. H. Bauer, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892 (fossil)	1921	Carl O. Dunbar	RR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
	Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	Clifton Gorge
	Allium canadense L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
	Phalangium esculentum Nutt.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
	Sagittaria sagittifolia L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
	Bidens bipinnata L.	1870	J Y Bergen; T L Bergen	Yellow Springs
	Amblystegium serpens (Hedw.) Schimp.	1877	not recorded
	Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1896	Wright, Frank S.	LOCNM: Zenia (near)
	Calopompilus Ashmead, 1900	1902	D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1907	H VOLLER	DAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
	Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1908	Lewis Sylvester Hopkins	Ohio, Greene county
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1908	L. S. Hopkins

All 509 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Alpha: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Greene County

The National Weather Service names Alpha in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056971. 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.