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

Happy Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clayton City. It lies in ZIP code area 45315. The Survey maps it on the Trotwood quadrangle.

Happy Corners within Montgomery 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 Happy Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Happy Corners, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 918 shown

Museums hold 918 specimens collected within 10 miles of Happy Corners between 1835 and 1975: 776 Animalia, 75 Plantae, 59 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Foeerste, A. E. Foerste, A. F. Foerste 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 Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.1881Foerste AF
Specimen of Geaster limbatus Fr.Geaster limbatus Fr.1883A. E. FoeersteDayton
Specimen of Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.1897H. W. Anderson
A photograph of the species Botrypus virginianus, not of this specimenBotrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, Miami [County]
A photograph of the species Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1836C. W. ShortDayton
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1837van Cleve, John W.3 mi. north of Dayton
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.1838J. W. Van CleveDayton
A photograph of the species Cassia marilandica, not of this specimenCassia marilandica L.1839Sanders, AlfredDayton
A photograph of the species Cynoglossum officinale, not of this specimenCynoglossum officinale L.1839not recordedDayton. Suburbs E.
A photograph of the species Nuphar advena, not of this specimenNuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton1839Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. HauptDayton
Pteris aquilina L.1839not recordedDayton
A photograph of the species Solanum dulcamara, not of this specimenSolanum dulcamara L.1839not recordedDayton. Suburbs NW.

All 918 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 Happy Corners: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 2 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Phillipsburg-#421Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Haas Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Haas Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miller Brothers Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Miller Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northmont Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northmont Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tipp Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tipp Stone Plant No 2 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Wenger Road Sand & Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms nearby

3 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Happy Corners in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2017Thunderstorm WindHappy Corners$1,000A large tree was downed along Old Salem Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHappy Corners$100A large tree limb was downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHappy Corners$100A large tree limb was downed.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Kinsey1.1 miles13
Pinchtown (historical)1.1 miles13
Taylorsburg1.4 miles13
Northview1.7 miles13
Morgan Place1.8 miles13
Stringtown2.0 miles13
Englewood2.1 miles12
Irvington2.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064790. 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.