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

Green Acres, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lemon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45050. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Green Acres within Butler 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 Green Acres, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Green Acres, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1905 county history

40,991 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lemon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lemon Township - 40,991 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 338 shown

Museums hold 338 specimens collected within 10 miles of Green Acres between 1835 and 1974: 298 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. C. Billups, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1929?Hueston Woods.
A photograph of the species Carex careyana, not of this specimenCarex careyana Torr. ex Dewey1835Collector unknownIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.1835Collector unspecified"Miami"
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1835B. FrankIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 17581879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 18591879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Storeria occipitomaculata, not of this specimenStoreria occipitomaculata Storer, 18391879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Tropidoclonion lineatum, not of this specimenTropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856)1879not recordedHughes
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1880not recordedMonroe
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedMonroe

All 338 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Middletown, OhioIronUnknown
Mecco Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mecco, Incorporated PltSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Brittany Heights1.0 miles16
Monroe1.6 miles16
Oneida1.8 miles16
South Middletown2.1 miles16
South Excello2.1 miles16
Linn-Crest Acres2.3 miles16
Le Sourdsville2.4 miles16
Excello2.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2353398. 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.