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

Hillcrest, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45036. It stands on Little Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Hillcrest within Warren 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 Hillcrest, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hillcrest, 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,411 shown

Museums hold 3,411 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hillcrest between 1850 and 1974: 3,067 Animalia, 254 Fungi, 74 Plantae, 12 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14529, A. Gaufin, A. J. Mix 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 Ipomoea lacunosa L.Ipomoea lacunosa L.1877Joseph Francis JamesLoveland
Specimen of Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) ArthurPuccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur1878James, F.Loveland
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1877James, J.F.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1877James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Rumex altissimus, not of this specimenRumex altissimus Wood1877J. F. JamesLoveland.
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878Collector(s): unknownFoster Point
A photograph of the species Fomes scutellatus, not of this specimenFomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke1878James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Justicia americana, not of this specimenJusticia americana (L.) Vahl1878Lloyd, Curtis GatesLoveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus cinnabarinus, not of this specimenPolyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland

All 3,411 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hillcrest: 4 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 5 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
Clark Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Dravo South Lebanon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Freeze PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mason Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Turtlecreek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Watson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
Hageman1.1 miles16
Ridge (historical)2.4 miles15
Avalon Heights2.5 miles15
Stokes (historical)2.6 miles16
Shadow Lake Village2.9 miles16
South Lebanon3.1 miles14
Mary Ellen3.2 miles14
Otterbein3.2 miles16

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 HillcrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5762742The 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 1062813. 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.