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

California, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cincinnati City. It lies in ZIP code area 45230. It stands on Threemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle.

California within Hamilton County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of California, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of California, surveyed 1898

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 5,083 shown

Museums hold 5,083 specimens collected within 10 miles of California between 1820 and 1975: 2,583 Fungi, 1,443 Animalia, 719 Plantae, 301 Protozoa, 26 Unrecorded, 11 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. F. Braun, A. 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 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 Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
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 Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.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.
Asterostroma cervicolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Massee1897Lloyd C. G.Eden Park
Asterostroma muscicola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Massee1897Lloyd C. G.Eden Park

All 5,083 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of California: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Brewer Co Plant No 10 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms nearby

11 since 2002

The National Weather Service names California in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Flash FloodCalifornia$10,000A high water vehicle recuse was needed in the 400 block of Sutton Road.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCalifornia$3,000A half dozen large trees were downed near Coney Island Amusement Park.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindCalifornia$2,000A few large tree limbs were downed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCalifornia$1,000Kellogg Ave. was closed at Lanter Lane by a tree in the roadway.
April 2024FloodCalifornia-Up to a foot of water was standing along the 400 block of Sutton Road.
August 2022Flash FloodCalifornia-Six inches of water was flowing over Sutton Road near 2 Mile Road.
June 2020FloodCalifornia-High water was reported at the intersection of Kellogg and Sutton.
June 2019FloodCalifornia-High water was reported on Sutton Road in Anderson Township.
September 2018FloodCalifornia-High water was reported over a roadway.
August 2016Flash FloodCalifornia-Over one foot of water was reported over Sutton Road.
August 2003Flash FloodCalifornia-Sutton Road was flooded with twelve to eighteen inches of water.

Every storm 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
Riverview Heights1.4 miles19
Sweetwine (historical)1.9 miles19
Watch Farm Acres2.3 miles19
Salem Heights2.4 miles19
Stanbery Park2.5 miles19
Mount Washington2.5 miles19
Watch Hill2.7 miles21
Ellenora2.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056755. 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.