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Green Valley, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43050. The Survey maps it on the Fredericktown quadrangle.

Green Valley within Knox County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 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 Valley, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Green Valley, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed 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 county-history sources

15,366 words on this township

A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862; History Knox County, Ohio, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wayne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wayne Township - 15,366 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Green Valley in 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 December 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 566 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 566 specimens collected within 10 miles of Green Valley between 1835 and 1974: 514 Animalia, 42 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 Fusicladium Bonord.Fusicladium Bonord.1883W. A. Kellermann
Specimen of Pestalotia De Not., 1841Pestalotia De Not., 18411883W. A. KellermannNo locality on label
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman
A photograph of the species Polystichum acrostichoides, not of this specimenPolystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, s.loc.
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1837MüllerOhio
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1863Turati (comte), Ercole
A photograph of the species Delphinium exaltatum, not of this specimenDelphinium exaltatum Aiton1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1877not recordedunspecified
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1879Willard L. Maris
A photograph of the species Gallinula chloropus, not of this specimenGallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Lobelia inflata, not of this specimenLobelia inflata L.1881Andriessen, H.near Fredericktown, OH

All 566 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Valley: 2 producers. All of them 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fredericktown DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fredericktown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Knox 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
Dorema1.8 miles11
Dalrymple Corners2.3 miles11
Knox3.4 miles11
Lucerne3.7 miles9
Clinton (historical)4.3 miles13
Fredericktown4.4 miles11
Bangs5.2 miles10
Mount Vernon5.4 miles13

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 Green ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133787The 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 1067422. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.