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

Garland, Ohio

12 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 45322. The Survey maps it on the West Milton quadrangle.

Garland 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 Garland, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Garland, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 112 shown

Museums hold 112 specimens collected within 10 miles of Garland between 1897 and 1963: 107 Animalia, 5 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 Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1927Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Near Vandalia, Montgomery Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1927Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Near Vandalia, Montgomery Co., 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 Glonium abbreviatum, not of this specimenGlonium abbreviatum (Schwein.) M.L.Lohman1929M. L. Lohman
A photograph of the species Hysterographium mori, not of this specimenHysterographium mori (Schwein.) Rehm1929M. L. Lohman
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

All 112 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Garland: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Gregory QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Gregory PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gregory QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gregory QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gregory QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miller Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northmont Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northmont Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsburg QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsburg-#421Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Garland in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 tornado. 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
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Garland$20,000This tornado first impacted a property north of Montgomery County Line Road and just east of State Route 721, where very minor damage to farm equipment was observed. Roof damage was observed at the next property to the southwest, with tree damage at a home directly north of Montgomery County Line Road. It was at this point, just north of the Phillipsburg Airport, that the tornado continued southeast into Montgomery County. The tornado ended in Montgomery County, at a property on N Diamond Mill Road at 2224EST.||Damage in Miami County was consistent with an EF0 tornado with 80 mph winds.

Every storm 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
Five Points2.7 miles9
Pinebrook Estates2.8 miles12
West Milton2.9 miles12
County Line (historical)3.1 miles12
Pigeye3.2 miles12
Potsdam3.2 miles9
Laura4.6 miles9
Ludlow Falls4.7 miles12

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 GarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133769The 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 1048772. 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.

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.