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Avoca Park, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45227. It stands on Bass Island. The Survey maps it on the Madeira quadrangle.

Avoca Park within Hamilton County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Avoca Park, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Avoca Park, surveyed 1898

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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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbia township, in the words of 1881.

1881, Columbia Township

Day-Book

Jan. 2 left our camp and put down the Ohio and on the 8th arrived at Limestone and thence to Washington which is in 38 degrees some minutes North, and had at that time 119 horses. " i2th left Washington (Mason Co., Ky.,) on the 12th and arrived on the 18th at Miami (Columbia). " 23 the first four horses were stolen - by the Indians - April 4 two of Mills' men were killed.

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In the 1881 county history

74,119 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 Columbia Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Columbia Township - 74,119 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 6,180 shown

Museums hold 6,180 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avoca Park between 1827 and 1975: 3,711 Fungi, 1,344 Animalia, 728 Plantae, 357 Protozoa, 27 Unrecorded, 13 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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 Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
Specimen of Puccinia extensicola Plowr.Puccinia extensicola Plowr.1900Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
A photograph of the species Carex shortiana, not of this specimenCarex shortiana Dewey & Torr.1835FrankIn pratis aquosis prope Cincinnati civ. Ohio communis.
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Chaerophyllum procumbens, not of this specimenChaerophyllum procumbens (L.) Crantz1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati
Asterostroma cervicolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Massee1897Lloyd C. G.Eden Park
Asterostroma muscicola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Massee1897Lloyd C. G.Eden Park

All 6,180 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Avoca Park: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mariemont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newtown PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 3 Newtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Plainville1.0 miles19
Ancor1.2 miles19
Gravelotte (historical)1.3 miles19
Shademoore1.4 miles19
Newtown1.5 miles21
Mariemont1.8 miles19
Clare1.9 miles19
Terrace Park2.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062638. 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.