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

Germantown, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44408. The Survey maps it on the Columbiana quadrangle.

Germantown within Mahoning County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Germantown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Germantown, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 461 shown

Museums hold 461 specimens collected within 10 miles of Germantown between 1853 and 1974: 267 Animalia, 173 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Anderson, B., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850Cottus bairdii Girard, 18501853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1853not recordedPoland, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191853C. KirtlandYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 461 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Germantown: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Coal. 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
Afc PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Afc PitClay, CoalProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning 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
Island1.0 miles17
Boyer2.0 miles17
Eureka2.5 miles17
East Lewistown2.5 miles17
Locust Grove2.8 miles16
Snyder (historical)3.5 miles17
Greenford4.0 miles16
Paradise4.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1051789. 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.