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Fort Gass, Ohio
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45030. The Survey maps it on the Hooven quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1915 to 1996The 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.
Compare 1915 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
20 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1928 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Whitewater township, in the words of 1881.
Development Of Commerce
Before manufacturing can fairly begin in a new country, commerce and exchange must provide for the wants of a community in many directions. Local trade sets in as soon as there is anything to buy or sell, be it only a fish hooked from the water, or venison shot .in the forest. When Demand calls ''Hello!'' Supply answers ''Here I am.'' The Cincinnati pioneers in 1789 wanted seed-corn, and corn for hominy and bread, and immediately corn-meal came from Lexington, down the Licking, in canoes.
In the 1881 county history
267,357 words on this townshipThe 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 Whitewater Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Whitewater Township - 267,357 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 456 shownMuseums hold 456 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fort Gass (historical) between 1835 and 1975: 236 Animalia, 178 Fungi, 40 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Gaufin, A.P. Morgan 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Carex davisii Schwein. & Torr. | 1835 | Frank | in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio |
 | Mentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald | 1835 | Collector unspecified | Miami. |
 | Sanicula canadensis L. | 1835 | Frank | in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio |
 | Desmodium Desv. | 1836 | Short, C.W. | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio prope 'North Bend' [banks of Ohio River near North Bend]. |
 | Dicentra Bernh. | 1836 | Short, C.W. | Fernbank [=Fernbank Park] ad ripas fluminensis Ohio, prope North Bend, Kentucky. |
 | Monotropa uniflora L. | 1836 | Haupt, J.G. | 4 mile NW. Cincinnati |
 | Viola L. | 1840 | Short, C.W. | In America boerali prope Fernbank, ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope North-Bend (Kentucky). | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope ''North Bend.'' [=In northern America, near Fernbank, beside the Ohio River, near North Bend (Kentucky).] |
 | Aesculus L. | 1844 | Short, C.W. | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio prope North Bend [=Fernbank - the banks of the Ohio river near North Bend]. |
| Dasyscyphus viridulus (Schrad.) Sacc. | 1898 | A. P. Morgan | ||
 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | White Water Creek, within northwest Whitewater township, near Hooven, Whitewater township |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Dry Fork Whitewater Creek, within Crosby township, near New Haven, Crosby township |
 | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | White Water Creek, within northwest Whitewater township, near Hooven, Whitewater township |
All 456 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
10 of 36 shownThe federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Fort Gass (historical): 18 past producers, 13 producers, 5 plants. 18 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allied Chem Corp Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ashcraft Main Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ashcraft Sand and Gravel, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Barrett Paving Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Bunnell Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bunnell Gravel Pit Number 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Cleves Plant Number 6 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cleves Plant Number 6 and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Dry Fork Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| East Miami Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simonsons (historical) | 1.2 miles | 20 | |
| White Water Park | 1.4 miles | 20 | |
| Perryville (historical) | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Cilley (historical) | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Blue Jay | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Gieringer | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Hooven | 3.1 miles | 20 | |
| Valley Junction | 3.3 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079662. 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.