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

Crescentville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springdale City. It lies in ZIP code area 45246. It stands on East Fork Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle.

Crescentville within Hamilton 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 Crescentville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Crescentville, 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 1881 county history

8,481 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Springdale City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Springdale City - 8,481 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,525 shown

Museums hold 3,525 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crescentville between 1819 and 1975: 2,285 Fungi, 720 Animalia, 351 Plantae, 140 Protozoa, 16 Chromista, 12 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. 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 Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
Specimen of Peronospora parasitica (Pers.) De BaryPeronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary1899Aiken, Walter H.Hamilton County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of 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.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1837Collector unknownIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati.
A photograph of the species Carex suberecta, not of this specimenCarex suberecta (Olney) Britton1837Collector unspecifiedCincinnati.
A photograph of the species Philonotis longiseta, not of this specimenPhilonotis longiseta (Michx.) E.Britton1838T. G. Lea
A photograph of the species Fissidens hyalinus, not of this specimenFissidens hyalinus Wilson & Hook.1839T. G. Lea

All 3,525 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Crescentville in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCrescentville$20,000A building collapsed on Mosteller Road. Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the Cottingham area.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindCrescentville$15,000A substantial part of a roof was ripped off of a commercial building near Kemper Road and Gondola Street.
May 2009HailCrescentville$3,000The hail fell near the Interstate 75/275 interchange in northern Hamilton County.
May 2020Flash FloodCrescentville-The ramp from I-275 to Mosteller Road was closed due to high water.
August 2015HailCrescentville-no account filed

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
Grainthorpe (historical)2.0 miles15
Glendale2.2 miles15
Springdale2.2 miles15
Sharonville2.9 miles15
Forest Park3.1 miles16
Evendale3.4 miles15
Woodlawn3.6 miles15
Lincoln Heights4.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048641. 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.