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

Five Points, Ohio

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45309. The Survey maps it on the Laura quadrangle.

Five Points within Miami County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 1880 county history

74,276 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 74,276 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 105 shown

Museums hold 105 specimens collected within 10 miles of Five Points between 1897 and 1963: 102 Animalia, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V DEL, A. Gaufin, A. R. 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 UredoUredo1897Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Botryodiplodia (Sacc.) Sacc.Botryodiplodia (Sacc.) Sacc.1921L.M. FennerMill Creek Farm
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 17661898Collector(s): L. KumleinMilton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River, trib of Miami River, northern part of Union Twnp
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Ludlow Falls, Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Ludlow Falls, Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Stillwater River, within north Union Township, near West Milton OH, Union Township
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River, trib of Miami River, northern part of Union Twnp
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River, trib of Miami River, northern part of Union Twnp
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1929MB TrautmanStillwater River, trib of Miami River, northern part of Union Twnp
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanStillwater River, trib of Miami River, northern part of Union Twnp
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1932Dury, R. (Ralph)Union Twp., Clermont Co., Ohio

All 105 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Phillipsburg QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsburg-#421Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Miami 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
Garland2.7 miles12
Potsdam3.0 miles9
Pinebrook Estates5.2 miles12
Laura5.2 miles9
County Line (historical)5.3 miles12
Pigeye5.5 miles12
West Milton5.5 miles12
Ludlow Falls6.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062765. 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.