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

Brookside Estates, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45069. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle.

Brookside Estates within Butler County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Brookside Estates, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brookside Estates, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1905 county history

16,981 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on West Chester Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on West Chester Township - 16,981 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 267 shown

Museums hold 267 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brookside Estates between 1879 and 1975: 255 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, Bartley, F., Belk, E. 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 LeptostromataceaeLeptostromataceae1883Prof. W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Calidris melanotos, not of this specimenCalidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)1879W. DouglassJones Station
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 17581879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 18591879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Mimus polyglottos, not of this specimenMimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Jones
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Storeria occipitomaculata, not of this specimenStoreria occipitomaculata Storer, 18391879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Tringa flavipes, not of this specimenTringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Jones
A photograph of the species Tropidoclonion lineatum, not of this specimenTropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Bartramia longicauda, not of this specimenBartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)1880Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Jones Station
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1880not recordedMonroe

All 267 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Pisgah0.3 miles15
Country Acres0.4 miles15
Orchard Acres0.5 miles15
Clearview0.8 miles15
Emery Acres0.9 miles15
Circle View Acres0.9 miles15
Concord Hills1.0 miles15
The Woods1.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2112636. 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.

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