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

Hays Corner, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45426. It stands on Poplar Run. The Survey maps it on the Trotwood quadrangle.

Hays Corner 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 Hays Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hays Corner, 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.

In the 1882 county history

26,494 words on this township

The county history of 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perry Township - 26,494 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 630 shown

Museums hold 630 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hays Corner between 1836 and 1974: 502 Animalia, 67 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 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 Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1836C. W. ShortDayton
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.1838J. W. Van CleveDayton
A photograph of the species Mertensia virginica, not of this specimenMertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link1855Buchanan, R.Dayton
A photograph of the species Montelia tamariscina, not of this specimenMontelia × tamariscina (Nutt.) A.Gray1869Collector(s): unknownDayton
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1877H. J. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1877William B. WerthnerOhio, Dayton
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1877H. J. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Carex amphibola, not of this specimenCarex amphibola Steud.1877A. P. Morgan & L. V. MorganDayton
A photograph of the species Carex suberecta, not of this specimenCarex suberecta (Olney) Britton1877A. P. Morgan & L. V. MorganDayton

All 630 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hays Corner: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Olive Road Limestone PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Olive Road QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Amity0.5 miles13
Airhill1.6 miles13
Trotwood2.9 miles13
Post Town3.1 miles13
Stringtown3.3 miles13
Voyager Village West3.3 miles13
Brookville3.6 miles10
New Lebanon3.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064818. 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.