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

Eightmile, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Anderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45255. It stands on Eightmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Withamsville quadrangle.

Eightmile within Hamilton County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eightmile, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Eightmile, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

54,177 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 Anderson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Anderson Township - 54,177 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,448 shown

Museums hold 2,448 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eightmile between 1827 and 1975: 1,549 Fungi, 490 Animalia, 269 Protozoa, 125 Plantae, 12 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. Woolman, A.H. Povah 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 Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835FrankIn paludibus prope Cincinnati civ. Ohio rarissime
A photograph of the species Carex shortiana, not of this specimenCarex shortiana Dewey & Torr.1835FrankIn pratis aquosis prope Cincinnati civ. Ohio communis.
A photograph of the species Melanthium virginicum, not of this specimenMelanthium virginicum L.1839Joseph ClarkDuck Creek, 6 miles from Cincinatti
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1850Lea & ClarkLittle Miami River, Near Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Obovaria subrotunda, not of this specimenObovaria subrotunda Rafinesque, 18201862unknown collectorLittle Miami Riv., Waynesville
A photograph of the species Amia calva, not of this specimenAmia calva Linnaeus, 17661864MCZ teamOhio River, at Cincinnati, Ohio
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Madisonville
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1875Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Madisonville
Corticium Pers., 17941897Lloyd C. G.Linwood
Corticium lacteum (Fr.) Fr.1897Lloyd C. G.Linwood
Guepinia elegans Berk. & M.A.Curtis1897Lloyd C. G.Linwood

All 2,448 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 Eightmile: 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

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
Britney Acres1.8 miles21
Asbury1.9 miles21
Cherry Grove2.7 miles21
Forestville2.9 miles21
Watch Hill2.9 miles21
Watch Farm Acres3.2 miles19
Huntcrest Acres3.2 miles21
Fruit Hill3.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1059739. 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.