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Cedron, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45121. It stands on Slickaway Run. The Survey maps it on the Felicity quadrangle.

Cedron within Clermont County

Then and now

1931 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedron, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cedron, surveyed 1931

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 county-history sources

50 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Franklin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 26 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cedron between 1896 and 1974: 23 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Culberson W. L., J. Galloway 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
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1896A.M BradfordBradford
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521927J. GallowayBig Run, (L. Miami Riv. Basin)
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacepède, 18021930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Taphrina deformans, not of this specimenTaphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1934Jones FrancesMoscow
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1938R. RhoadesIndian Creek, On SE Edge Of Monroe Township
Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1939Lonsing, A.Dayton. Woods.
Orconectes juvenilis (Hagen, 1870)1939R. RhoadesOhio River off Boudes Ferry, Lewis Township
A photograph of the species Orconectes propinquus, not of this specimenOrconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)1939R. RhoadesOhio River at Utopia, Franklin Township
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda (Green, 1818)1947W E DUELLMAN ET ALCHILO

All 26 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedron: 2 producers. All of them 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
Cedron StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howerton GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clermont County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedron in 1 storm report between 2010 and 2010: 1 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
June 2010FloodCedron2 killed, $3,000Heavy rain allowed for Bullskin Creek to rise. Two boys, ages 8 and 11, were killed when they were swept away in the rising water after they went to look at the high water.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Utopia2.1 miles11
Stringtown2.6 miles11
Rural2.6 miles11
Felicity3.2 miles11
Chilo4.6 miles13
Mount Olive5.9 miles12
Point Isabel7.3 miles12
Neville8.3 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on CedronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133632The 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 1062689. 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.