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

Busenbark, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Clair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45011. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Busenbark 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 Busenbark, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Busenbark, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 479 shown

Museums hold 479 specimens collected within 10 miles of Busenbark between 1835 and 1975: 313 Animalia, 123 Fungi, 43 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. C. Billups, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883W. A. KellermanLancaster.
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1929?Hueston Woods.
A photograph of the species Carex careyana, not of this specimenCarex careyana Torr. ex Dewey1835Collector unknownIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.1835Collector unspecified"Miami"
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1835B. FrankIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
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 Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes

All 479 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Busenbark: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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
Aggregate Services PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fairfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hamilton Plant #710Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mecco Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mecco, Incorporated PltSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New Miami PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
New Miami PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Trenton1.8 miles16
Overpeck1.8 miles15
Woodsdale2.2 miles16
Woodsdale Park2.6 miles16
Miltonville2.8 miles12
Rockdale2.8 miles16
Williamsdale2.9 miles15
Le Sourdsville3.4 miles16

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 Q122598859The 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 1062679. 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.