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Cozaddale, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45122. It stands on Frybergers Run. The Survey maps it on the South Lebanon quadrangle.

Cozaddale within Warren County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cozaddale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cozaddale, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

33,569 words on this township

The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Hamilton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first post office in the township was at Hopkinsville, established is 1825, and afterward post offices were established in the following order viz. : Dallasburg, 1848, Maineville, 1854; Foster's Crossing, 1859; Murdoch, 1866, and Cozaddale, 1871. The very earliest settlers received their mail probably at Lebanon. The following, copied from the address on the back of an early letter, will show how indefinite the directions :

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

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 Hamilton Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 579 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 579 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cozaddale between 1850 and 1974: 289 Fungi, 259 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14529, A. Gaufin, A. J. Mix 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 Ipomoea lacunosa L.Ipomoea lacunosa L.1877Joseph Francis JamesLoveland
Specimen of Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) ArthurPuccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur1878James, F.Loveland
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1877James, J.F.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1877James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Rumex altissimus, not of this specimenRumex altissimus Wood1877J. F. JamesLoveland.
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878Collector(s): unknownFoster Point
A photograph of the species Fomes scutellatus, not of this specimenFomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke1878James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Justicia americana, not of this specimenJusticia americana (L.) Vahl1878Lloyd, Curtis GatesLoveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus cinnabarinus, not of this specimenPolyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland

All 579 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cozaddale in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCozaddale$80,000Fifteen to twenty homes sustained structural damage from a possible microburst. A barn was knocked off its foundation with numerous trees downed in the area.
August 1999Tornado (F0)Cozaddale$25,000A weak tornado tracked out of Clermont county into the south-central part of the county. Trees were downed and some damage occurred to homes and barns.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Comargo1.3 miles14
Dallasburg1.6 miles14
Pleasant Plain2.7 miles13
Murdock2.7 miles14
Rossburg3.5 miles13
Maineville4.3 miles14
Butlerville4.4 miles13
Butterworth (historical)5.4 miles15

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 CozaddaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5180122The 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 1056844. 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.

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.