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

Bridgeport, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Miami Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45342. It stands on Sycamore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Miamisburg quadrangle.

Bridgeport within Montgomery County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bridgeport, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bridgeport, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1882 county history

25,484 words on this township

The county history of 1882 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 - 25,484 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 360 shown

Museums hold 360 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bridgeport between 1835 and 1975: 226 Animalia, 68 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN 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 Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilumHypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum1835Joseph C. FrankGermantown
Specimen of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.1881Foerste AF
Specimen of Geaster limbatus Fr.Geaster limbatus Fr.1883A. E. FoeersteDayton
A photograph of the species Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1836C. W. ShortDayton
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.1838J. W. Van CleveDayton
A photograph of the species Iris versicolor, not of this specimenIris versicolor L.1839not recordedDayton. 2 mi. south
A photograph of the species Potentilla canadensis, not of this specimenPotentilla canadensis L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mile south.
A photograph of the species Mertensia virginica, not of this specimenMertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link1855Buchanan, R.Dayton
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1877H. J. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1877H. J. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1877A. P. Morgan & L. V. MorganDayton
A photograph of the species Carex suberecta, not of this specimenCarex suberecta (Olney) Britton1877A. P. Morgan & L. V. MorganDayton

All 360 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport: 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carter & Webb IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hilltop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Weidle Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Weidle Sand and Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Carrollton Aggregate No. 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Miamisburg0.5 miles13
Pineview Estates2.1 miles13
Whitfield2.5 miles13
Ellerton2.7 miles13
West Carrollton3.1 miles13
Chautauqua3.5 miles13
Shanersville3.7 miles14
Germantown4.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067276. 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.