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

Grainthorpe, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sharonville City. It lies in ZIP code area 45241. It stands on East Fork Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grainthorpe within Hamilton County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grainthorpe (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Grainthorpe (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

3,753 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 Sharonville City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sharonville City - 3,753 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,262 shown

Museums hold 4,262 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grainthorpe (historical) between 1819 and 1975: 2,732 Fungi, 875 Animalia, 469 Plantae, 151 Protozoa, 19 Chromista, 15 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. Braun, A. 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 Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1835Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1837Collector unknownIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati.
A photograph of the species Carex suberecta, not of this specimenCarex suberecta (Olney) Britton1837Collector unspecifiedCincinnati.
A photograph of the species Philonotis longiseta, not of this specimenPhilonotis longiseta (Michx.) E.Britton1838T. G. Lea
A photograph of the species Fissidens hyalinus, not of this specimenFissidens hyalinus Wilson & Hook.1839T. G. Lea

All 4,262 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Sharonville1.1 miles15
Glendale1.4 miles15
Evendale1.4 miles15
Crescentville2.0 miles15
Woodlawn2.5 miles15
Lincoln Heights2.7 miles19
Springdale2.9 miles15
Park Place3.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1059767. 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.

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